How to repair your Dell Inspiron keyboard
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!
Discuss Biology
January 16, 2008 at 12:08 am
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
January 16, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Are Dell laptops known to be bad? The Russian letters are stickers, you!
January 16, 2008 at 10:40 pm
No. But he is a Maccie, you know…
January 17, 2008 at 11:04 am
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*
January 17, 2008 at 7:18 pm
omg now we have two maccie fan here. you and the Greek. anyway, everybody is welcome
January 22, 2008 at 9:43 pm
and I’m happy, because my laptop work again, after my hгsband use him
(jock 
January 29, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Na ja…the next move will be to send you to an intensive English course
February 13, 2008 at 7:36 pm
yeah but HOW did you put it back together??
February 13, 2008 at 7:45 pm