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    Tea Spillage on Studio 1537 Touchpad

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by peterfoster, Oct 20, 2010.

  1. peterfoster

    peterfoster Newbie

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    Yesterday my daughter spilled a little tea on the touchpad of her Dell 1537 laptop. She left the laptop in the airing cupboard overnight to dry it out. Today she tells me that the right side of the touchpad works fine but the left side does not. Of course she can use an ordinary plug-in mouse. Has anyone got any ideas as to the best way to restore the touchpad to full funtionality! Sadly, we don't have laptop accident cover. Thanks.
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    You can try to air out the current one more, but if it's still not working after a couple days, you should just buy a new touchpad. You'll probably have to buy an entire touchpad/palmrest assembly, but I don't think it'll be that expensive. Maybe $25ish? Look on eBay...
     
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    Many thanks. Is it a reasonably straightforward job to fit a replacement touchpad/palmrest assembly.
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    It's somewhat of an involved process... but I don't think it isn't straightforward:

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    Many thanks for flagging the relevant section of the service manual for me! Reading through it I think I could do that. And you're quite right that there are a lot of these on Ebay. I notice that there seems to be two models of touchpad/palmrest assembly for the Dell Studio 1537. One is called "Y348G" and the other "NU454." The "Y348G" seems to be the Biometric (Fingerprint reader) model so because my 1537 doesn't have Biometric I guess I need the "NU454." Thanks for your help.
     
    peterfoster, Oct 21, 2010
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