How to clean, upgrade, repair or disassemble a laptop or notebook keyboard.
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Acorn A4 | Dismantling the laptop as far as the motherboard, removing the screen and replacing the LCD panel, pictures from the motherboard and keyboard details. |
| Apple iBook G3 | Zen and the art of keyboard maintenance. How to take all the caps off and fix a broken keyboard cable. |
| Apple iBook G4 | Keyboard blues: make a hybrid keyboard of a G3-iBook-keyboard and G4-iBook-keyboard. |
| Apple iBook G4 | Zen and the art of keyboard-maintenance. |
| Apple iBook (White) | Tips, tricks and pictures about cleaning the keyboard. |
| Apple PowerBook 1xx | Memory upgrade, hard disk upgrade, modem installation, keyboard exchange (in Japanese). |
| Apple PowerBook Duo | Overclocking, cleaning the keyboard, changing the CAPS LOCK light to a red LED, adding a hard drive activity light, adding a ADB port in place of the modem, repairing the AC adapter port. |
| Apple PowerBook Duo 2xx | Memory upgrade, keyboard exchange, hard disk upgrade, modem installation, backup battery replacement (in Japanese). |
| Apple PowerBook 5xx | Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange, modem installation, CPU upgrade (in Japanese). |
| Apple PowerBook 1400 | Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange (in Japanese). |
| Apple PowerBook 2400 | Key-cap replacement instructions. |
| Apple PowerBook 3400/G3 | Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard exchange (in Japanese). |
| Apple PowerBook 5300/190 | Memory and hard disk upgrade, keyboard replacement (in Japanese). |
| Apple PowerBook G3 Series | Worried about an overly flexible keyboard? |
| Apple PowerBook G4 15'' | Poison Powerbook: how to make the backlit keyboard glow red, Apple logo color mod, keyboard cleaning and take apart instructions. |
| ASUS A4740KBP | How to integrate the receiver of an external cordless Logitech USB mouse and keyboard into the laptop case between the rear panel and GPU/chipset heatsink. |
| Averatec AV3250 | Laptop Keyboard Repair: Not all notebook keyboards are made the same, and the keyboard you get when buying one of those budget notebooks isn't always a high durability keyboard, especially if you are a heavy typist. This laptop had a few keys that died after about two years of usage. This HOWTO describes repairing the silicon membranes instead of buying an expensive original keyboard. After disassembling the defective keyboard, you will see that the silicon membranes that provided the support for each key where independent, unlike their desktop counterparts, where there is usually one big membrane covering the entire keyboard. So you may use the membrane of one of those slim desktop keyboards that are cheaply available everywhere. |
| COMPAQ Armada E500 | Replacing laptop keys (and keyboards). |
| COMPAQ Armada M700 | Keyboard replacement instructions. |
| COMPAQ LTE 5000 | This page discusses how to safely and easily clean the keyboard on a notebook computer. |
| COMPAQ 486 | How to convert a laptop keyboard into a desktop keyboard. |
| DELL Inspiron 1100 | "Captain Disassemble" to the rescue: how to replace the keyboard. |
| DELL Inspiron 1100/1150/5100/5150 | Keyboard removal instructions. |
| DELL Inspiron 3700/3800 | Keyboard replacement tutorial. |
| DELL Inspiron 9100/8600/8500/D800/M60/XPS | This is an easy to follow tutorial to fix the "flex" in the keyboard. |
| DELL Latitude CPx | Keyboard replacement guide. |
| HP Pavilion DV8000T | A keyboard checkup guide. |
| HP Pavilion N5425 | Reseating the keyboard connector. |
| IBM ThinkPad 560 | Repairing a design flaw of the keyboard. |
| IBM ThinkPad 770 | DaliPC: an old laptop being transformed into an "electronic painting". Booting with no keyboard hack. |
| IBM ThinkPad 770Z | An illustrated explanation of the key mechanism, how to remove the spring, ring and frame of a keyboard key. |
| IBM ThinkPad i1400 | HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade, battery revival, membrane keyboard repairs, trackpoint transplant, adding USB ports and wireless LAN. |
| IBM ThinkPad T20, T21, T22 | Keyboard replacement instructions. |
| Samsung X10+ XTM1700 | RAM, hard disk and keyboard upgrade, with disassembly pictures. |
| Sony VAIO PCG-FX501 | How to change the CPU, fixing the noisy keyboard (in German). |
| Sony VAIO VGN-SZ160P | How to fix the spacebar (video). |
| Toshiba Libretto 50CT | A quick guide on how to install PS/2 mouse and keyboard connections to the standard port replicator. |
| N.N. | Cleaning a laptop keyboard. |
