Remove the upper blue border (tab on left side), remove its connection underneath (right upper side).
Unscrew the two screws holding the keyboard down, then slide keyboard up and out. Remove the keyboard connection (middle bottom).
Probably not the best idea to turn your computer back on after spilling liquid on it. Next time, make sure you dry everything off before you turn it back on (wipe and air dry, no heat!). You could have fried your whole system.
Thanks for the reply....another question if anyone knows as well. Is there a way to take off an individual key. As an example, can I take off the "enter" key and replace it? If not I guess I need to buy a new keyboard even though I cannot find one on the site.
You can take off individual keys. You can't buy individual replacement keys from Dell - you'll have to look on ebay for used keyboards to take them off from. I recall one poster here on Dell who bought a boxful of keyboards and was willing to sell them to others.
To remove, you pretty much just yank them off. The keys snap onto a bracket underneath, which move up/down by sliding along metal hooks. You may dislodge the bracket in the process of removing the key (or maybe you'll remove the whole key/bracket without separating them). It's pretty difficult to replace the key/bracket in one piece due to space limitations. Easiest way is to separate the key from the bracket, place the bracket in the hooks, then snap the key back onto the bracket.
DELL-BobT
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November 4th, 2003 21:00
jyellen4,
Thank you for using the Dell Community Forum.
To remove components from your system follow these instructions:
luphy
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November 5th, 2003 02:00
Remove the upper blue border (tab on left side), remove its connection underneath (right upper side).
Unscrew the two screws holding the keyboard down, then slide keyboard up and out. Remove the keyboard connection (middle bottom).
Probably not the best idea to turn your computer back on after spilling liquid on it. Next time, make sure you dry everything off before you turn it back on (wipe and air dry, no heat!). You could have fried your whole system.
jyellen4
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November 5th, 2003 06:00
Thanks for the reply....another question if anyone knows as well. Is there a way to take off an individual key. As an example, can I take off the "enter" key and replace it? If not I guess I need to buy a new keyboard even though I cannot find one on the site.
luphy
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November 6th, 2003 02:00
You can take off individual keys. You can't buy individual replacement keys from Dell - you'll have to look on ebay for used keyboards to take them off from. I recall one poster here on Dell who bought a boxful of keyboards and was willing to sell them to others.
To remove, you pretty much just yank them off. The keys snap onto a bracket underneath, which move up/down by sliding along metal hooks. You may dislodge the bracket in the process of removing the key (or maybe you'll remove the whole key/bracket without separating them). It's pretty difficult to replace the key/bracket in one piece due to space limitations. Easiest way is to separate the key from the bracket, place the bracket in the hooks, then snap the key back onto the bracket.