Chiclet Key Removal on HP DV6-3243cl

Please help. Thanks in advance.

This is a chiclet style keyboard. I searced google and youtube for an hour and did not find a tutorial for keyboard removal or individual key removal that seemed to be for this style and model.

Video Tutorial? Picture Article Tutorial?
How to remove the keyboard?
Perhaps easier....
How to remove the key?

The h key on my laptop barely works. It requires a very deliberate and repeated attempt before it will type. All of the other keys type easily.
Perhaps it only needs a cleaning.
Perhaps the entire board should be replaced.

FYI, the laptop has been used for exactly 1 year.

I noticed that Macbook chiclet keys can easily be individually removed.

Of course, I am paranoid of breaking my only laptop which I use daily for work ... and I am broke so that always makes things more of a worry if I need to spend on repairs.

 

Replacing the keyboard is not an easy task on this HP. I suggest that if you attempt only if you have the patience and are not heavy handed. There are a zillion screws to keep up with.

I'm reasonably sure you cannot replace the individual keys (the caps perhaps?), so its best if you just replace the entire keyboard.

 

Replacing the whole keyboard is extremely easy, the keys themselves are more of a pain. To replace the whole keyboard you take off the bottom cover and remove the screws that have a little keyboard symbol next to them. Afterwards there are little tabs you pull and it pops the keyboard right off. Look up Hp dv6 keyboard removal, or the dv7 series has the exact same process for getting off the keyboard

 

Correction: The process is extremely basic--removing screws. Whether its easy depends on your level of proficiency.

The "ease" depends on you level of proficiency, tools and how user friendly (not HP) the manufacturer has made their product to be disassembled.

Mine did not come apart easily; and was even tougher to get back together so that nothing broke and all the seams matched. Take care when someone says something is easy.

 

I concur with the others so far who replied. I don't recommend it at all. I have broken a couple Envy-15 1100 Chicket Keyboards that way. You are better off getting a new keyboard if you need you fix a few keys or if you got some warranty left, get them to replace it.

 

Umm the newer Hp's are much more user friendly than the old ones. One panel, three screws, pull tab and then cable removal for the entire keyboard to be swapped. It's actually simpler than on my M17x

 

That is what I meant. I meant I broke my keyboards by trying to fix some keys. Therefore, you are better off just replacing the entire thing.

 

Ah I see a miscommunication of your idea, I thought you had meant the keyboard removal was difficult and not the keys.

 

If the hooks and tabs aren't broken, you can usually replace the key. If every 1 part is broken/bent up, buy a new keyboard and save yourself 20 minutes of grief. MOST HP keyboards are NOT fun to replace, requiring a flathead/spudger to push it out. You can go to HP's support site and input your model name and download HP's service manuals.