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Norris2k on 12 February 2017
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SvennoJ said:
Norris2k said:

In most (but not all) laptop, you can just remove the keyboard entirely (and replace it). It should looks like something like that. After you removed it, you can clean further, and test without the keyboard. After spilling some coke, I had to replace it and it went just fine.

Yeah I looked into that. The keyboard is the last thing to come out when taking it apart which doesn't look like an easy job. (Dell Inspiron 7558) Especially since my eye sight close up is pretty bad, and those screws I saw inside when checking the hdd are mighty tiny. It also has one of those fancy backlit keyboards but it should work with a standard one as well.

I'm weighing my options. Spend money on a repair shop, try a new hdd (which is the bigger issue, why can't it reboot normally), or get a better one and try fix it later. I feel about 50/50 that I'm going to wreck it further when I try to replace the keyboard myself... Should have got one that opens from the top as well!

It just passed the hdd tests from Dell Support, no issues found. yay :/

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.