How to repair your Dell Inspiron keyboard

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Two posts ago I wrote my notebook had some touchpad/keyboard problems. After Dell confirmed me my notebook is not under guarantee anymore, I decided to open it and fix the problem. And it worked: ha ha ha!!! Luckily the problem was not hardware: simply the key “H” got stuck, even if not visible without disassembling it. I found it activating the BIOS option “Stop on any error”, which informed me of a Keyboard error. I just removed the key “H” (gently with a small screwdriver) and its mechanism (that was probably keeping it pressed) and the touchpad worked again. I put the key and the mechanism back and now everything works. The key mechanism is made of three tiny levers on a gummy ring, as you can see in the picture (where the central lever was removed, showing the central gummy ring). As no key was visibly stuck, the solution came late. Better late than never!

9 Responses to “How to repair your Dell Inspiron keyboard”

  1. roberto Says:

    well who in the world would buy a dell anyway? ;)
    well good job, but how the heck did you get those russian letters on the keyboard? handmade by stasia? you guys have too much time ;)

  2. loranablog Says:

    Are Dell laptops known to be bad? The Russian letters are stickers, you!

  3. Iris Says:

    No. But he is a Maccie, you know… :roll: ;)

  4. roberto Says:

    ey sweetheart, you might consider how many times the “maccie” saved your (computer-)life before… hehe
    @renzo: no, i am not too much into this dell thing, i just wanted to scare you a little *giggle* ;)

  5. Lorenzo Says:

    omg now we have two maccie fan here. you and the Greek. anyway, everybody is welcome ;)

  6. Stassia Says:

    and I’m happy, because my laptop work again, after my hгsband use him :) (jock :)

  7. Lorenzo Says:

    Na ja…the next move will be to send you to an intensive English course ;)

  8. cat Says:

    yeah but HOW did you put it back together??

  9. loranablog Says:

    ;) Well…if it’s difficult to understand, you could disassemble another key and see how the pieces are put together.

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