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- iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev
Shout out to URTechDotCa who was the only reason I could do this without losing my mind.
Shout out to URTechDotCa who was the only reason I could do this without losing my mind.
That’s a Dell? Damn, they’ve strayed quite far away from their old B130 design, my old potato Dell only requires unclipping one plastic cover above the keyboard to access two screws to remove the keyboard.
I feel your pain homie. Was the surgery completed successfully?
After 5 minutes of blank screen it popped into the BIOS (date/time) and booted up normally. New keyboard works!
Awesome!
About 5 minutes of blank screen first though? What was it doing behind the scenes, contacting the Dell Mothership to void your warranty? 🤔
Yawning, blinking, not wanting to get up, wishing someone would bring them coffee. The usual.
It felt like 5 minutes, who knows 😄
As a former HP laptop tech, I don’t think keyboard replacements ever took longer than 20 minutes unless something went horrible awry.
8 screws in the back case or so, unplug the battery. 2-4 screws from the innards (varies by model) and then you push and replace some ribbon cables.
Oh man, you would remind me, my more modern laptop is an HP 15 DW0083WM, and my F10 key is so messed up that it would probably fly off if I sneezed on it.
I’ve already been inside the laptop before, but only to cut a service panel to easily remove/exchange the SSD module. I quickly realized that if I ever do have to replace the keyboard, I’ll have to gut all the boards and parts to get to it, not much different than OP’s journey…