keyboard replacement for laptop

[veg4681]

has anyone had to replace keyboard for a laptop or notebook, mine's packing up big time, let alone able to type properly, getting worse and worse. this is all i can type now...... my machine 5 years old now, time for replacement?

[Hazel at the Hill]

has anyone had to replace keyboard for a laptop or notebook, mine's packing up big time, let alone able to type properly, getting worse and worse. this is all i can type now...... my machine 5 years old now, time for replacement?

You can alway plug a keyboard into one of the USB ports, Veg - not ideal, but it'll prolong the life of you (admittedly, aging) lappy.

[srodders]

Have you tried turning it upside down and using a compressed air duster to blow all the cr@p from under the keys? this works in a lot of cases as dirt gets under the keys preventing them from being depressed properly.

replacing the keyboard would be expensive I'd think (as in cheaper to buy a new laptop)

[SMS6]

My partner is an IT guy and he's replaced laptop keyboards before. They don't look easy to do - he generally has letters all over the place and has to remember where they all go.

He says it would mean dismantling the computer

[bubblewrap]

Our son removed all the keys from his laptop to clean it.
I don't know if you would be willing to try that but if you do take a photo of the key board first so you get the keys back in the right place?

[veg4681]

You can alway plug a keyboard into one of the USB ports, Veg - not ideal, but it'll prolong the life of you (admittedly, aging) lappy.

We did this but the existing keyboard was still in control. Does anybody know how to disable the existing keyboard of a laptop? Or is there a replacement keyboard specifically for laptop? Funnily it's behaving perfectly fine now, it's an ongoing on-off problem.

[NOG]

Yep they are all replacable. And the new ones are available as spares from the manufacturers.

You would be better using a PS2 keyboard not a USB, if the unit KB is still in charge you have a key stuck down.

disable the KB in the BIOS.

What make of Laptop do you have?