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Guide for Toshiba Laptop Keyboard Removal and Replacement

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Have you ever experienced Toshiba keybord removal problem when your Toshiba laptop keyboard is missing a key or it needs to replace a keyboard. Now, this guide will help you fix it step by step.

If your Toshiba laptop keyboard doesn’t work well, most of time it’s due to long time using. Then proper cleaning and lubrication will restore your laptop keyboard to the snappy and smooth performance it had when new.

If your keyboard is missing a key, it’s not necessary to replace the whole keyboard. You can fix it on yourself for Toshiba laptop keyboard removal.

If the above mentioned cases can’t solve your keyboard problem, it is likely that your keyboard really needs to replace a new one.

So Toshiba Keyboard Removal comes to a must. How to replace keyboard on toshiba laptops?

Step 1: Remove the battery and unpug the AC adapter before you open the laptop case. But if your laptop is still covered by the manufacturer’s warranty, do not open the case or you can loose the warranty.

Step 2: Unlock the metal plate before you pull the keyboard cable from the connector. Remove the metal plate that cover on the system board before you can get an access to the connector. To open the connector, move the connector lock toward the LCD screen. It is enough to move it 2-3mm to open the connector.
Note: Be careful with the keyboard connector on the system board.

If you damage it, the entire system board has to be replaced.Step 3: Lift your laptop up with a small screwdriver and remove using fingers. On most Toshiba laptops the keyboard bezel doesn’t have any circuit board underneath, it’s just a piece of plastic and you don’t have to worry about cables.

Step 4: After the bezel is removed you get an access to the keyboard screws. Remove two (or more) screws. Release the plastic latch pointed with the red arrow and lift up the keyboard. Carefully put the keyboard aside so you can access the connector underneath the keyboard. Do not forget that the keyboard is still connected to the motherboard.

Step 5: Open the connector and release the flat ribbon cable.
Note: Be careful with the fragile connector. If the pins get bent even slightly it is impossible to reconnect them. Sometimes you might found that by pulling the green cable tab out of the connector itself worked great.

Step 6: Change the new keyboard to the laptop. Just stick the end of the new keyboard’s film-like connector inside the plastic tab that you released to remove the old keyboard. Push the tab back down so that it holds the end of the new keyboard’s connector in place. Reassemble the computer by putting the components back in the exact spot you removed them from.

The keyboard removal and replacement instructions will be almost the same for most modern Toshiba laptops.

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How to Do Laptop Keyboard Keys Sticking

Friday, October 19th, 2012

The keys on your keyboard are sticking or your keyboard is stuck for a couple of years old and a few of the keys stick when you are typing? Sticking laptop keys are a common problem because of contamination build-up like dust and hair, spilled drinks, and the wearing out of factory lubrication. Laptop keyboards will not wear out if you clean and lubricate them properly. Then there is no need to spend the money on an expensive replacement keyboard with following methods to restore your laptop keyboards to the snappy and smooth performance.

Step1: Troubleshoot the Laptop Keyboard Sticky Keys
Clean the keys that have wires attached and some grease with cotton swabs and naphtha (lighter fluid). Remove all traces of the grease.
Use a small screwdriver to gently pop the sticky keys off of the keyboard and place all keys in a container. Spray with household cleaner and let stand for 5 minutes. Rinse thoroughly with hot water and place keys on paper towels to dry. Let dry completely.
Note: Be gentle pressure with the key in case of using excessive force.

Step2: Clean the Entire Laptop Keyboard
If it’s just on the surface of keyboard, you can gently try to pop a key off. Many times, the keyboard area is further protected underneath with a rubber or plastic membrane.  Clean up what you can.

If they come off fairly easily, take a picture of the keyboard before you remove any more, so you know how to put them all back on. You can also lay them out on a surface, in order, as you take them off. Once you have access beneath the keys, clean all the dirty things out of the keyboard with damp cloths and/or cotton swabs. Also clean the keys as bestyou can. If you have the picture of the layout, you can just throw them in a colander and rinse them off with warm water in the sink for a bit. You may need to take the keyboard apart further to get all the dust or drinks out of the various layers. Please allow them dry completely.

Step3: Place all Rubber Components into the Keyboard.
Install keys with wires. Make sure wire is secured in the key, usually snapped into place. Place ends of wire in the slots adjacent to the key location as you align the key. Firmly press down to snap the key into place. Install the rest of the keys by aligning and firmly pressing down.
Tips: Always read your laptop manually thoroughly before cleaning. Besides, laptops keyboards will have pop-off keys, so make sure you know before you try.

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The Problems Of Laptop Keyboard

Friday, October 19th, 2012

The key pad is absolutely an important section of the notebook. We put it to use so frequently that it’s got different problems. The widespread key pad faults are primarily attributable to circuit fault, the key pad hats off, poor contact, and oxidation. 1 had a Toshiba satellite television M35-S320 Laptop key pad to repair, it had been total of problems, specifically the important thing hat falling down. Here submit the major phenomenon of the key pad and their possible causes.

A specific key can not enter. If only 1 key can not be input, the purpose may well be that the important thing is invalid or joints did not welded perfectly. whilst examine, examine whether or not its contacts is on or not. when the key pressed has no conduction, the important thing has to be at poor contact, which requires restore or replacement. when the get in contact with is ok, that could perhaps be the loose weld or metallic oxidation.

If the damaged keys are neither within the exact same column, neither within the exact same row of keys cannot enter, there may well be some thing wrong using the column line, row collection circuit, or logic gates. This point out can be recognized by 100MHz oscilloscope to find the troubled point, after which restore the laptop keyboard.

Keyboard input and display display of the cartoon characters are inconsistent. This may well be as a outcome of brief circuit. Another phenomenon is that pressing a key delivers a string of characters. This phenomenon is attributable to a logic circuit fault. 1st pick a column character, if that collection does not include a carriage come back key column, there could perhaps be several other cartoon characters phenomena; when the 1 using the key in key, it’s going to have a very personality and will not very last to the program rebound phenomenon.

Then examine logic circuit chip with an oscilloscope to find fault. Afterward, the substitute of silicon chips using the new versions is a very good solution.

Sometimes the strong tap could be the killer of the key in key as perfectly as other shortcuts. because M35-S320 Laptop Keyboard, it dropped the key in key plus the backspace key. And for some gaming fans, one can find four keys need to carry way more attention.

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Prevent Laptop Keyboard From Dust

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Referring to internet café bar, the first impression is dirty. What about your computer at home? Are they as clean as you expected? Have your ever check it? To tell the truth, there are tens of thousands bacteria attaching on the computer, especially the keyboard. As the keyboard in my office, it turns to shinning color. But some parts are attached by thick dust. I think it’s not my personal stuff. So I seldom clean it initially unless it affects the usage.

Once I have read a report, it’s said that most people have no idea of how to clean laptop keyboard. Though it looks black or not so dirty, there is trash hidden under the keys. As we can see, the keyboard has many fillings between two keys. It’s the shelter of bugs’ body, hair, snacks and crumbs. People hardly realize the dust under the key. If you tap your keyboard on the back, you will see amazing stuff falling out from the keyboard.

Some people may think it’s the problem of the desktop. My dell 6000 Keyboard and Dell B130 Keyboard are the best examples. They take on a black look after half a year. They had some second hand smoke. They drank what I drank.

And they have the crumbs that I ate left. Some beetles used to sleep there forever. my friend used to give me advise to have a protective film. I didn’t take it as important as it could. Then I have this HP DV9000 Keyboard back to its original place. And a new one has taken me sixty bucks. It’s really out of my expectation.And the experts suggested that I should buy a protective film. While I used my laptop, the film can prevent the crumbs falling into the filling. As the climate turns cooler and cooler, there is no side effect on overheating.  Whether the dust is visible or not, we should clean it once a week.  In this case, our keyboard is under a clean circumstance.

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Maintenance of the Laptop Keyboard

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Keyboard is one of the most frequently used parts of the laptops. Although many companies have already taken its durability into consideration, especially making much optimization in its structure, it still has some problems after long time using. For example, maybe some key doesn’t work, or the letter is erased.

The user should mainly pay attention to the following points:

Firstly, don’t loose your temper with the keyboard. Many people get used to hitting the keyboard after a crash of the laptop, resulting in the loss of their work. Doing like this will cause damage to the soft rubber who supports the keys and in a long time, the button wouldn’t be bounced any more.

Secondly, try to keep the keyboard cleans. Cases liquid spilling into the keyboard may cause the short circuit and hardware loss. We hope that everyone would develop a good habit to eat or drink away from the laptop, reducing the risks, to achieve the purpose of protecting the laptops.

Last but not least, we also recommend the dedicated keyboard protective film of your laptop model (Such as this MacBook keyboard protector). This keyboard protector is with uneven keys, just covering your keyboard exactly.

● This is high-quality for Silicone Keyboard Skin, made of high quality durable flexible non-slip silicone, soft touch and provide comfortable feeling for your typing.

● The Silicone keyboard cover with words, symbols, it’s convenience of your operation and identification.

● It is flexible, easy fixed and helps muffle typing noises.

● It protects your computer’s keyboard from dust, water, and everyday mishaps.

● It is washable and make virus away from your fingers.

● It can prevents keyboard’s keys from general wear and tear, thus protect your keyboard.

They can be found in a normal market, with a cheap price.

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Replace a Laptop Keyboard Successfully!

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

When your old laptop keyboard is broken, you may need to buy a replacement laptop keyboard online. To buy the exact good keyboard, you need to know the model number of your laptop, which you can usually find at the bottom near the laptop battery (but be sure that it is not the battery’s model number). You can find most replacement keyboards at the price around $30, but some models may cost more if they’re exceptionally rare or complex, or if they are for an extremely expensive laptop, as the companies know that you’ll pay extra for the keyboard. You might check www.Hootoo.com for some really good deals.
Next, you may wonder that how you can replace it successfully by yourself. If you can do it, you will save much time and money.Now, we will teach you 9 steps for replacing a laptop keyboard.

Step 1.First, turn the laptop off, disconnect power source and remove the battery. Then, lay the laptop flat (180º) on the table or desk where you plan to change the keyboard.

Step 2.Using the plastic scribe, gently insert under the hinge cover’s corner and lift the hinge cover off the laptop. Be gentle.

May require a little wiggling to ensure the little connectors pop out of their locationStep 3.Once the hinge cover is removed, lay it to the side.

Step 4.Locate the two small M2.5 x 5mm screws that attach the keyboard to the laptop and use the small Phillips screwdriver to remove them. There is at least one on each side of the laptop. They were hidden by the hinge cover and should be visible once that cover is removed.

Step 5. Using the plastic scribe, insert under keyboard and gently lift. Little nodules at the end of the key board and a keyboard cable in the center secure the keyboard to the laptop. Gently wiggle the keyboard until it is loose.

Step 6.Pull up on the keyboard cable until its pops loose. Set the bad keyboard to the side.

Step 7. Take the new keyboard and insert the cable into the cable slot on the laptop. Press the cable lift down on top of the cable and secure it. (It is imperative that you get this part right otherwise, the keyboard will not work when you put it back together!).

Step 8.Insert the nodules at the end of the keyboard in their respective slots and replace the two M2.5 x 5mm screws.

Step 9.Replace the Hinge Cover.
Do as the above steps, you can replace your laptop keyboard successfully by yourself.

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Clicky Keyboard Envy: A Funny Laptop Keyboard

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

I often feel there are many similarities between music and the work I do on a computer. One such similarity is my concern over the tools I use. I figure if you’re going to use something often, you should take the time to really play around with your options, and get the best out there, because the difference in price can be surprisingly negligible.

Having spent time both working on computers and making music without having a lot of money to spare, I’ve often settled—and gotten quite comfortable—with subpar gear. My first computer was an Atari 400, a computer which had a “membrane keyboard” which was basically like typing on an iPad, but worse. My first musical keyboard was no better.

In fact, when I think about it, even the gear I’m using now feels rather anemic. Modern Apple keyboards or HP Laptop Keyboard are fashionable and functional, but force your fingers to do all the work. They’re like these small keyboards that only cover half the range of a piano, and have a flat feeling, leaving you wondering when you’ve actually struck the note.

There are clearly things missing from these keyboards… namely, keys.

So the “pro” option, for most folks, is to get one with all the keys.

 These ones have more keys, but are otherwise very similar.

But there’s still something missing. They don’t feel right. Luckily, this is a solved problem, and has been for some time. The “holy grail” of keyboards like the  HP Pavilion DV6-6000 Keyboard  .

 The best keyboards money can buy including HP Laptop Keyboard .

Now I can’t speak to the piano—I might need a bigger house—but you can buy piano-like keyboards to get a similar feel. As for the computer keyboard, the Model M Keyboard was manufactured for many years, and can be readily found on eBay. Since they’re so durable, it’s probably still a fairly good investment.

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Keyboard Damage And Laptop Keyboard Replacement

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

Laptop keyboards are obviously an essential part of a laptop – it would be difficult to use the laptop without a keyboard. Yet laptop keyboards can malfunction. Whether this is because of crumbs dropped into the cracks from lunches taken on the go, or splashes of coffee from drinks hastily gulped between work, or letters missing or deformed from too hasty typing that caused fingernails to catch against the edge of the letter and pull it off, keyboards sometimes suffer as a result of their contact with the human race.

All this is without including dropping the laptop, treading on it – which has been known – and dropping something on it.

Laptop keyboards are functional and fairly resilient, but they are not designed to resist all these events, so it is not really surprising that under these conditions something goes wrong.

While no-one wants to damage their laptop, it is the case that all these things can happen, and it usually happens on the day you would least want it to.

Without the keyboard you are pretty limited what you can do with your laptop, so it is just as well that keyboard replacement is possible. Here at Laptop Power, we have keyboards for laptops to suit all makes of laptops. Even if you don’t think you are the most technically minded person, you can get advice and help from us about fitting your laptop keyboard replacement.

So if you know that you are amongst the many people who have committed one of the crimes against laptops listed above, you can allow yourself some relief in knowing that you do not have to go to the extreme of spending out on a whole new laptop because of accidental damage done to your keyboard.

It can be replaced and your laptop brought back to full life again.

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About Laptop Keyboard Cleaning

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

Before we start this topic, I want to know if you believe the fact that your laptop keyboard can make you sick? Actually, this is possible. Do you know germs live on your hands and fingers? When you type on the keyboard, many of them will jump on to the surface of the keyboard. Then those germs will transfer to others’ fingers when they type on your keyboard. Or they will reconquer your own fingers again when you later type on the same keyboard. So in order to prevent this, it is important to clean your laptop keyboard regularly.

You need to turn off the laptop before cleaning the keyboard. Then, you spray some disinfectant on a cloth. At this point, you should remember to use disinfectant not only any type of cleaner. The reason for this is because not all cleaners have the function of cleaning. After spraying disinfectant on the cloth, wipe down the top and sides of the keys. Please pay attention, before turning the laptop back one, you need to give the keys a few minutes to dry off. Now do you think this is very simple? If so, you should make it a regular practice to clean your laptop keyboard, which do good to your health.

But if something, such as beer, wine, coffee, is spilled on the keyboard, what will you do?

If something were spilled, the first thing you need to do is immediately use a cloth to dry as much of the liquid off as you can. If the liquid that spilled on the laptop keyboard was sticky, you may want to follow more extensive cleaning procedure to clean the keyboard.

With these cleaning methods in mind, you may save your laptop keyboard from total destruction the next time.

And you will suffer less germs attach in the future.

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Really Annoying: Laptop Keyboard With a Few Bad Keys

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

Well, this is annoying… my MacBook keyboard has started to go flaky, with several keys no longer working… the “” key, the “” key, and the “” key. Don’t see them? Dooh! I can’t type them, silly! :-)

One of the regrettable side effects of Apple’s exceedingly-compact, dense designs is that repair/replacement of parts can be “challenging”, to phrase it kindly, and the keyboard is a good example: a key is “repaired” by disassembling almost the entire main body and replacing the whole keyboard assembly.

I’ve got the “AppleCare” extended warranty so I can get it fixed plenty easily, nevertheless still a hassle, especially since the problem appeared at the start of a three-day weekend. (Monday is the “Respect for the Aged” holiday in Japan.) The day after that, I’ll take the laptop to the repair place and hope it’s something they can do on site, knowing I’ll probably lose the laptop for a week or more. :-(

So, we’ll probably see zero posts on my blog for a while, except that perhaps this will be motivation for me to finally clean my office desk to the point that I can access my MacPro (my desktop Mac). These days, I normally do all my work with my laptop while reclining in a big soft La-Z-Boy, so my desk has grown to be a vast wasteland of random debris piled in layers over time. If I clean, I’ll be astonished if I don’t find a fossil or two.

I will soothe the pain this evening by (yet again) drowning myself in beef and beer at the great BBQ/Beer garden feast at the hotel next to the (oddly-named) Qanat Mall, as I’ve written of several times.

PS: if my prose on this post seems a bit stilted this time, it’s owing to the fact that I can’t type the letter “” (again, I can’t type it!), so I’ve had to find alternative ways to phrase things. Which letter? That’s for the reader to decipher. :-) Here’s a hint: this post has every letter except the one I can’t type.

Here’s another hint: to write this post while avoiding the letter that my keyboard rejects, I had to often refer to my thesars.

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