cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38838572
Shout out to URTechDotCa who was the only reason I could do this without losing my mind.
this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2025
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you know the computer thing is it plugged in?
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The keyboard is under all that garbage. Skip to the end and you'll see that the keyboard is mounted beneath a metal tray that is molded into place beneath all those components. The manual says to remove all those parts, but in hindsight a lot of them could be left alone. The video has the minimum steps but I found it too late
I have done this repair a few times on dells. It sucks but doable. This was during covid and we had huge delays on getting new devices, so was taking parts from diffrent computers to make a working one. All mine worked fine, I'm good with mechanical things, but Practice stopped when coworker tried it and put long screws where short ones go and the case now has very noticeable bumps next to the mouse pad.
Also shocking how NO ONE knew how to change thermal paste on a 5 year old laptops or why they were all thermal throttling. Corporate waste is real.
Oh ok so the manual is just crap. I've replaced one keyboard where I had to take apart the laptop like that, but left a majority of the components together. At least you got some practice in.