Tampering laptop keyboard

Do you know how it happens: one awkward movement - and a glass of coffee or soft drinks spilled on the keyboard of your laptop. Well, damn it! This is a bad day ... After all, you probably know that spilled on the laptop soda, tea or beer, can cause serious damage, data loss and even loss of your portable PC.

The most innocuous situation is when you shed on the keyboard plain water. If you have a such a nuisance, we first need to immediately disconnect the laptop, if it is connected to the network, and remove the battery (no need to wait for a normal shutdown). Then drain the water from the keyboard, simply turning over the laptop, then you can wipe it with a dry cloth. After all this leave the laptop to dry during the day, no less. Must wait until the moisture evaporates completely. Upon expiration can test the laptop keyboard in general and in particular. If the laptop or keyboard does not work, you should search in your city centers, performing service repairs laptops in your city.

Even worse, if the keyboard has got a coffee or soda. After drying, these fluids become sticky and likely key on the laptop will zalipat when clicked. Here a simple drying is necessary. Most likely, you will need to repair your laptop keyboard in the studio.

If you are unable to give Beech a repair, you can try to disassemble the keyboard and clean it yourself, but remember with the following rules:

* Always remove the battery and unplug the AC adapter before you open the case laptop
* At unauthorized opening the notebook you'll lose the guarantee
* If you damage the keyboard connector on the motherboard, then you have to replace the entire motherboard
* You have to act at their own risk.

So, in order to remove the keyboard is necessary to understand how it is attached to the notebook. First, inspect it from all sides. Typically, the keyboard is removed, once it is otkrucheny screws, which are located under the header on top of decorative over the keyboard (or under it, on some older models of Toshiba).

1. Use a screwdriver or a knife carefully remove the panel. Panels are mounted on a snap, so you should have no problem with dismantling. Be careful, on some notebooks this socket can approach the wire, and with a sharp jerk, you can tear them accidentally. Once the panel is removed, you will have access to the screws holding the keyboard.
2. Remove the screws and disconnect the ribbon cable that goes from the keyboard to the motherboard.
3. Next, you need to remove all the buttons (previously better to photograph the location of the keys).
4. Then we remove all elevators for the keys.
5. After that we remove the layer with rubber caps (or just some caps, depending on model)
6. It separates the foil from the conductive paths, the track to restore the damaged contact with a special adhesive.

As you can see, the keyboard is very difficult to disassemble and assemble even more difficult. It would be better if you allow this work to specialists. In such cases, the service center for repair laptop keyboard replace spoiled a new one. Cleaning and restoration of the keyboard may be required for older models of laptops, which is hard to find parts. Replacing the keyboard will cost you from 2500 rubles. In some service centers may be specified price from 500-600 rubles. This is likely the cost of the repairs without reference to price the keyboard itself, which for various models ranging from 2000 to 3000 rubles. So be careful and specify the price at once, then to you it was not a surprise.

Finally, I would advise you, be careful when handling the notebook. Keep drinks away from him. Instead of eating and drinking for him, better get up to 10 minutes of a workout, go have a meal in the kitchen, if you are at home. In the absence of such a possibility, at least delays the laptop away from him during the meal. These simple rules allow you to live longer than a laptop computer, and it will serve you more than a year.