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    Need Keyboard Help!

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by jleyba, Mar 30, 2006.

  1. jleyba

    jleyba Notebook Guru

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    Um...I'm not quite sure how I did it, but I managed to pop my PrtSc button off my V6Va today. I imagine I must've caught the corner of it with my little finger or something when I was going for the backspace key. I just remember looking down at the keyboard and seeing the key popped out at a diagonal. When I tried to push it back down it just slid out of place all the way.

    Does anyone know if this is fixible (please say yes)? There's nothing broken on the key, I just popped it out of the little metal latches. So far I've had no luck getting hte key back on....

    [EDIT] Nevermind, I just fixed it. :)
     
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  2. PROPortable

    PROPortable Company Representative

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    If you try to reinstall it by putting the bottom on first and then pushing down on the top -- if the key isn't actually broken - that'll work. Let me know if you can't get it back on.
     
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  3. AuroraS

    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    When I first saw the title of this topic, I thought Learning_Asus started it.... LOL.

    Anyway, something similar to that happened to the Del key on my M6Ne before. I just fixed it by pressing down it with a bit of force and I heard a "click"...so I guess it snapped back into place.
    When you see the bottom of the key, does it look broken at all?
    I'm sure warranty will replace in no time either way...
     
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  4. gameraxs

    gameraxs Notebook Enthusiast

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    I don’t know much about Asus laptops (never used one) but be careful, some key holders (the metal or plastic underneath the key which holds it to the keyboard) are made of plastic and by pushing on it you might break it. But like I said it really depends on the keyboard, what I did on my older laptops is use tweezers to put it back in place.
     
    gameraxs, Mar 30, 2006
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