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    My Enter key came off

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by frugihoyi, Feb 1, 2009.

  1. frugihoyi

    frugihoyi Notebook Guru

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    I have a Dell Inspiron 6400. My Enter key came off and I can't put it back on. I think I lost one of the white plastic pieces because I purposefully removed my Caps Lock to compare. Observe:

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    The first is a photo of my Caps Lock: you can see two plastic pieces.
    The second is my Enter and I only have one plastic piece.

    Can someone confirm that I should have two plastic pieces on the Enter as well? If so, can I order this somewhere?
     
    frugihoyi, Feb 1, 2009
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  2. whizzo

    whizzo Notebook Prophet

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    if you're still within warranty, Dell should send you a new keyboard.
     
    whizzo, Feb 1, 2009
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  3. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Are you sure that the other white piece isn't stuck to the bottom of the black enter key?
     
    namaiki, Feb 1, 2009
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  4. frugihoyi

    frugihoyi Notebook Guru

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    I don't think this is worth replacing the entire keyboard. Yeah, I'm sure it's not stuck to the Enter key lol.
     
    frugihoyi, Feb 1, 2009
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  5. icecubez189

    icecubez189 Notebook Deity

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    if you can't manually reattach it, chances are it's broken. happened to the "I" key on my laptop. although i hardly used the laptop's keyboard, it bothered me to see a slightly busted keyboard so i bought a replacement on ebay.
     
    icecubez189, Feb 1, 2009
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    arhaz Newbie

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    arhaz, Nov 26, 2009
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