Repair Help-How to Replace the HP Compaq DV6 Series Laptop Keyboard
First you should take care of your keyboard on daily work: If you want to thoroughly clean the keyboard, you should disassemble the keys one by one. It will be troublesome, not a easy job to do. So please do not let the computer exposed to excessive dust environment, do not eat or drink on your laptop, especially the flying and juice food, This is not easy to clean, if the juice spilled on the keyboard, it may leak into the internal host. This will be a big effect to your whole laptops. Maybe you need to buy a new laptop. If your HP Compaq DV6 series keyboard is dirty and needs to clean, you should buy a Not lint brush, like a painting brush No.1 or 2. Then Power off your laptop, and carefully clean the keyboards. To this end you had to buy a special small brush to regularly clean out the cracks with a brush carefully the dust and soot, and then swab dipped in a small dedicated HP Laptop Keyboard keys detergent surface, only half an hour, you can make a keyboard, a new look. It is reported that clean-up keyboard can also be the first mechanical watch with a clear and camera lens dust “balloon” after blowing the dust to clear. He is reminding computer users, cleaning and maintenance keyboard connector plug should be pulled off after the cleaning agent should be selected cleaning agents, so that the keyboard’s metal parts from corrosion. then the keyboard can be used again after drying. You may also do the same thing on screens, mouse or other hardwares.
If you have to replace the keyboard, below are the steps you should follow:1. Remove sticky tape securing the keyboard cable to back of the HP Laptop Keyboard . Part of the keyboard cable is glued to the HP Laptop Keyboard . Carefully separate the cable from the keyboard.
2. Start peeling off the aluminum protective film and remove it.
3. After the protective film is removed it’s really hard to attach it back to the keyboard because it’s deformed. Most laptop keyboards have some kind of plastic separators. These separators secured on the back of the keyboard. Plastic pins are melted on the back of the keyboard and retain separators in place. Push all plastic pins though wholes on the keyboard. Start removing the separator. The plastic separator has been removed.
4. Before you start removing key caps, make a picture. In order to remove the key cap carefully lift it up with your fingers. Remove the key cap so the hinge underneath stays connected to the Compaq Laptop Keyboard . Some big keys have a different design. In addition to the hinge, some big keys (Back space or Space bar for example) might have an additional support bracket. Remove the key cap with the support bracket. As you see, the key hinge stays connected to the keyboard.
5. Some laptop keyboards might have blank covers on the left and right sides from the up arrow key. Lift up and remove the blank cover. All keyboard key caps and plastic separators have been removed.
6. Now you can start removing key hinges – key lifting mechanisms. Carefully separate the key hinge from the keyboard. Each key hinge has two parts – external and internal pieces. When you remove the hinge, try to keep these parts connected to each other the same way they are connected on the HP Pavilion DV6-6000 Keyboard . If the external and internal pieces got separated, you can assemble them together. On the following picture you see the lifting mechanism (hinge) assembled. As I mentioned at the beginning, I’m taking this keyboard apart just for fun. That’s why I don’t care about removed parts. If you following this guide to repair the keyboard, I would recommend to keep all hinges in the right order.
7. The keyboard has two sheets laying one on the top of another. Remove the sheet with silicone (or rubber) nipples.
8. Remove the second sheet with traces. Both sheets have been separated from the Compaq Laptop Keyboard base. The sheet with traces has two layers and all traces are running between these layers.
9. In order to access and repair traces you’ll have to separate to layers from each other.
Congratulation, the Compaq Laptop Keyboard has been disassembled.
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