| Norris2k said: I was so shocked at how hard the keyboard is to remove that I watched the whole video ! On mine, you remove it from the top, very easy. As for your hdd, the chances it is faulty seem relatively small to me : the disks are almost entirely sealed, you can clean the electronic, the HDD test is OK. If you want to be sure, you could try to boot on a live cd (or usb memory) OS (like ubuntu) just to see if the system is properly running with no HDD. As for keyboard unmounting, if it's just for the faulty keyboard not to interfere, it seems the cable plugging the keyboard to the MB is the blue flat cable with KB written on it and the black on with LB. In your video, at 0:51 you can already see it and unplug it, so it should be much easier (remove the cover, remove the battery, unplug the 2 cables, that's it). If you still have the same issue without the keyboard plugged, then it could be anything else. And if it works, well, you can live with a usb keyboard or perhaps have a cheaper repair at a repair shop as it's just the keyboard, no checking. |
Thanks, that's a great option. I tried to disable the internal keyboard by software yet windows insists on reinstalling it every time lol. I'll try the hardware method next time it won't boot. There's definitely something going on with the keyboard as currently the backlight won't turn off anymore. It's not interfering with the usb keyboard at least.
And indeed, nice build quality inside but shockingly bad access to the keyboard.
