Dell Latitude D610 - keyboard replacement
My wife has a Dell Latitude D610 laptop, and it needs a new keyboard. She is a rather violent typer anyhow, and I guess at some stage she used the thing while not in a good mood :hitit2:
Replacement keyboards are about $15 on fleabay, which seems a good deal. The question is how easy it would be to swap out a keyboard in a laptop. Does anybody have experience with this kind of stuff?
Frank
Replacement keyboards are about $15 on fleabay, which seems a good deal. The question is how easy it would be to swap out a keyboard in a laptop. Does anybody have experience with this kind of stuff?
Frank
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Start here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd610/en/sm_en/hinge.htm#wp1120207
You take off that little strip across the top where the buttons are (small screwdriver in the corner and it all just "snaps" off.
2 maybe 3 screws, 1 ribbon cable.. you have the keyboard in your hands.
Reverse to put it back.... 15 min easy.
Many thanks for your advice. The laptop is as good as new again!
Frank
Anyway, getting the keyboard out of the Thinkpad was hard work. Maybe I didn't do it right, but I only got the keyboard out after breaking the case. That didn't give me much hope for keyboard replacement in the Dell. Glad I asked here! :thumbup
Frank