So you spilled your Soda in your keyboard when you’re snoozing?? or did one of your stupid friend tried to wipe your keyboard with water?? But before you have the comfort of knowing that you can replace your keyboard what you may want to do is flip the laptop upside down for all the liquid to drain out and once you feel that you have drained all the water out then save your work and shut down the computer and let it dry for couple of hours.
But, if you just fail to notice the fluid getting all inside your keyboard and if it’s too late then fear not as replacing keyboard is not a rocket science, and you don’t need to pay an extra $60 to show it to mechanics either.
(But before you do this I have to warn you that it will void your warranty, so do it on your own risk)
What I will be showing you here is replacing keyboard for Sony Vaio FW but in general all the process are same for any laptop keyboards(not considering the screw locations i.e)
So without further a do here’s the wonderful steps.
(Video is at the bottom if you don’t feel like reading the steps.)
1. I don’t think I need to tell you to shut down your PC to do this.
2. Plug out the A/C Charger and take out the battery.
3. Get a Jeweler’s screwdriver, something like this.
![Jeweler%27s-screwdriver-set-bright[1]](http://lh4.ggpht.com/_BW9f5N87Iwk/Sp_rAXzrt5I/AAAAAAAAAVY/nS6u76LCXTM/s1600-h/Jeweler27sscrewdriversetbright13.jpg "Jeweler%27s-screwdriver-set-bright[1]")
4. Depending on the type of screw your laptop has select the proper tool and start unscrewing.
5. Now, I will talk specifically for Sony Vaio FW for the screw part that you should unscrew. On the sides of battery and one just below the battery sitting in the middle.
6. After that unscrew the two screw that’s inside the battery compartment.
7. Unscrewed?? Good, now it’s time to take off the speaker cover. It might need a force but be gentle. Use a knife if you have to, there are certain locks so apply pressure on the locks and not the end of speaker cover.
As shown in image below there should be a grid to let the cover pop out.
8. After you have unlocked all the locks you should have something like this.
9. Before you get excited and start taking out the component of the keyboard make sure you unscrew the screw that’s shown in the image. (Sorry for the quality of image but I only had cellphone when I did this but you should know where the screw is by now, well it’s not really a screw but when you flip the keyboard you should see the screw.
10. Now take the keyboard out, once again it has certain locks on the side and the bottom.
11. Now take the keyboard out, it should have a wire thing plugged in the keyboard. That’s the thing that connects your keyboard to laptop. The hardest thing is taking out and plugging it back in.
In Sony Vaio it is plugged in and taped by a yellow strip.
12. Get your new keyboard and and stick it on the red marked like above in the image. (In other laptops there should be a some kind of latch or some form that attaches the strip to the connector.)
13. Make sure that strip is plugged in real good if it comes out then you might have to do this again, which is kind of frustrating.
14. Don’t screw yet plug the keyboard and put your battery, make sure the keyboard works.
15. If it works then make sure you lock everything, and screw everything back to where it was and your new keyboard will be ready to be typed.
If you don’t want to read all this then check out the video I made for this. (Once again, I shot this from my cell phone so you will not find the best of quality in the video either)
