Replacing an Acer Laptop Keyboard
A keyboard may need to be replaced due to a malfunction or an accidental spill of some kind of liquid on the keyboard. This guide uses an Acer Aspire 5315 as an example but the steps will generally work with most Acer laptops. I must advise that the memory bay/PCI cover does not need to be removed to replace the keyboard. By the way it is a pain to get off and only needs to be removed if you are upgrading RAM or adding a new PCI card. As a first step remove the battery and unplug the AC adapter form the wall and the laptop. After removing the battery find the screws in the battery bay and remove them.
The screws hold the cover of the keyboard in place. Next turn the laptop over and begin by loosening the cover directly above keyboard; it will need to be pried by another precision tool, preferably a flat head screwdriver. The cover also encompasses the power button and speakers so be very careful lifting the cover or you may pull out part of the speaker assembly. Under the cover you will find a set of clips holding the keyboard in place. Once more use your precision tools to ease the clips off, be sure not to pull to far too quickly when removing the keyboard as it is connected to the laptop via a cable.
You should have enough cable to fold the Acer laptop keyboard completely forward to remove the cable. The cable is attached through an interlocking clip mechanism like an internal fan is connected to a PC’s power supply. Gently remove the cable and then the keyboard. The only other area that can be accessed is the CPU fan from here and it can only be cleaned. Attach the new keyboard cable and proceed in reverse these steps; the keyboard backing is quite malleable and care should be taken not to bend or warp it in the process.
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ClearlyPro on
Tue, 7th Jul 2009 1:21 pm
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Brad Newcomb on
Sat, 12th Sep 2009 8:13 pm
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lelvepefuff on
Fri, 18th Sep 2009 10:27 am
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justin on
Sun, 22nd Nov 2009 7:41 am
When I tried to log on to family notebook, a box saying “there are not sufficient resources to load” my account with the default something-or-other came up. The message had a timer that was going to close the box, and then when it closed it would not log me on. I couldn’t turn it on normally so I cut the power. When I turned it back on I logged on fine?
I read here Laptop Error but couldnt make sense?
I had a small spill and due to this lost the function to part of my keyboard and thought the keyboard needed replaced so I purchased a new keyboard and installed but still have a malfunction the left side of the keyboard keys have no response at all when pressed the a and the s the lock shift and tab are all non functionable
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thanks so much! you saved me soooo much hassle!
before i found this guide i had already unscrewed every screw i could see and pried and prodded at all the plastic bits in the way of the keyboard.
thank god for the internets and its faithful tutorial posting angels!!!
yep, i’m pretty happy. by the way, the laptop works, new keyboard is sweeet.
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