Today’s laptops have many benefits over traditional desktop PCs, the greatest being portability. Being able to sit with your laptop on the sofa or in a coffee shop without the need of a separate monitor and keyboard is convenient and efficient. Unfortunately, this mobility can come at a price; breakages and damages being the biggest issue. The most common type of hardware problem with laptops is broken keys. Often the laptop key itself doesn’t actually break but either becomes detached from the board or the spring mechanism underneath the key fails. A popular method of accidentally breaking your laptop keys is by either dropping the laptop or something on top of it. Laptops keys can also unintentionally be pulled off should a piece of loose clothing or mouse cable wraps around the key and then is suddenly moved. The horror of not having all of your laptop keys intact can be distressing, but if this disaster happens to you, you can take steps to repair your broken laptop keys. How to repair a broken laptop key? Depending on the model of your laptop, most manufactures build a laptop key with 3 separate parts: The Key – firstly there is the actual key itself. This is the flat part of plastic that contains the letter, number or symbol icon on the top part. The Clip Retainer – this attachment is a little plastic frame that hooks onto the key top and attaches it to the base of the laptop board. It slides away under the key so that normally you cannot see it. The Rubber Suction – this is the most important part of the laptop key. Not only is this piece of rubber responsible for registering the key as being pressed, but it also springs the key back again once released. Now that you how the laptop keys are made up, we can now go about fixing yours. First you should check that your laptop has all of the pieces above. If your keys have recently broken off then you should find most of the parts within the area that your laptop was located. If any of your parts are broken in pieces or snapped, then you will need...
Read MoreHi everybody today we are going to talk about why laptops are so tough to repair. As you know, laptops are a great convenience and they make it easy to take your work with you wherever you go. This does come at a price. Laptops are great for convenience but if something goes wrong, they are difficult and expensive to repair. Because laptop computers are so small, all the components have to be placed in a very small compact area. This makes getting to any of the components very difficult at best. For example, if you are trying to replace the cooling fan, you have to remove a number of components including the screen and keyboard just to gain access to it. This is not for the faint of heart. In addition, most laptop parts are proprietary and you have to pay the company’s price for the part, which is usually very high. The only parts that are easily replaced on a laptop are confined to the hard drive and the ram. Chips. These components can also be upgraded quite easily as well. Another reason that many laptops fail prematurely is heat. Since laptop computers have their parts so clustered together, the amount of heat that they generate is quite intense. This heat can degrade the internal components of your system and lead to things like a motherboard failure. If this occurs, it is almost always less expensive to buy a new computer as opposed to having the board replaced. Because of the complexity of the laptop, most of your cost will be labor. In some cases if your system is newer, you might want to check and see if your system is under warranty or not. The manufacturers warranty will only cover hardware issues and not software issues. If you still have a warranty and your motherboard fries, you will be in luck! All you have to do is send your machine back to the factory and they will replace it. Please remember that is all likelihood, they will reformat your system before it is shipped back to you so always be sure you have a good backup in place. Author: Joe Zelenak, Staff...
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