Laptop keyboard

[plod]

Would a laptop keyboard become problematic overnit? - yes . and . playin up

So I can imaine te odd key startin to play up but tere is alf a dozen stopped workin or need pressin really ard to et tem to work

Just want to know before I order a new keyboard - about £15 posted from Amazon

[steve_earwig]

The keyboards I've had to bits have been a criss-cross network of rails, pressing a key connects the rails where they cross but no two keys connect the same two rails. So I'd think if there was a problem with a lot of keys then maybe a rail is disconnected - you could try unplugging the keyboard & plugging it in again and if that fails you're not going to make it any worse by taking it to bits have a squint

They generally don't like having drinks poured through them...

[plod]

ad te keyboard out wilst f1 qualifyin on and ave it a ood clean
as you can see it asnt made any difference

ive ot a broken bezel, te carer plays up and now te keyboard

I wonder, do I spend £50 puttin tis one rit, or do I look at a new laptop
tis one is a few years old and seems a tad slow - uess im cloin it up wit potos etc

[steve_earwig]

YOu seem to be missing G, H & N - all close together on the keyboard...

I can't work out what "carer" is so I don't know if it's important.

I can't imagine you getting much of a laptop for 50 squids.

You can get some small USB keyboards these days.

What are the specs on it? I doubt if it's the potos (unless the HDD is almost full, even then there are a few ways to find some space) - I keep finding loads of junk still floating about in the background on all the machines I've been looking at: things they don't use, things they don't need and things that aren't even meant to be there. The usual "cure" is to format & reinstall, it's probably easiest but it's not really necessary.

[plod]

YOu seem to be missing G, H & N - all close together on the keyboard...

I can't work out what "carer" is so I don't know if it's important.

I can't imagine you getting much of a laptop for 50 squids.

You can get some small USB keyboards these days.

What are the specs on it? I doubt if it's the potos (unless the HDD is almost full, even then there are a few ways to find some space) - I keep finding loads of junk still floating about in the background on all the machines I've been looking at: things they don't use, things they don't need and things that aren't even meant to be there. The usual "cure" is to format & reinstall, it's probably easiest but it's not really necessary.

was lookin around £350 - £400
Was just suestin weter wort spendin £50 on it

carer is charger - usin copy and paste of letters in your post

[steve_earwig]

Gah! It's obvious now I know You can buy those too, but it's up to you, if you fancy something better and have the cash floating about then go for it.

I still have a Toshiba Satellite (2450-101, p4 2.66) I bought in 2004, it was second hand but factory reconditioned, I got it from some place on the 'net with a really dodgy-sounding name (something like cheaplaptops.com) for about half the price of a new one. Apart from the battery only lasting about 20 minutes now it's still going strong and I wouldn't bother replacing it (even if I could afford to). I had to replace the HDD (the original was tiny anyway) and I've put as much memory in as I could (was 512MB, now 2Gig) - which is something I'd suggest you consider because that Dell I was playing with had the memory way deep inside so you couldn't get to it & the motherboard wouldn't have seen much more anyway. Changing it was a piece of cake on the Tosh. The only problem I have with it is I can't get to much in the BIOS so can't upgrade the processor.

[FarmerPug]

if your stuck for letters there is the onscreen keuboard which is handy as a tempoary job

[plod]

if your stuck for letters there is the onscreen keuboard which is handy as a tempoary job

ad to use tat to et on my laptop and cane my password as ad 2 of te letters witin it

[plod]

second hand bezel ordered along with new keyboard
£27 delivered from same seller on the bay

[benczuk]

second hand bezel ordered along with new keyboard
£27 delivered from same seller on the bay

Shame, I was quite enjoying deciphering your posts...

[gumby6371]

have you tried popping the offending keys off and looking underneath, They should click on and off with very little pressure. With them being close together there may be something stuck underneath, worth a look.

[plod]

have you tried popping the offending keys off and looking underneath, They should click on and off with very little pressure. With them being close together there may be something stuck underneath, worth a look.

Spent two hours whilst watching F1 qualifying on Saturday stripping, cleaning and putting back together
Was a fair bit of dust etc accumulated under many of them
Before you ask, posting from my phone lol