change Keyboard Satellite

[Bernard_60]

change keyboard satellite Toshiba L50C

 

[Saga Lout]

Toshiba has been trying for years to stop users and even professional repairers from carrying out repairs to their laptops. You may be lucky to find some form of service manual with some instructions on their website.

I worked on a Satellite recently where the keyboard would only come out downwards and that was made impossible by sealing the casing together with no visible screws to remove. Can you see whether yours would lift out and are there any screws on the base with keyboard icons beside them?

 

[Paul_204]

agreed, the keyboard forms part of the hardware chassis and after stripping out the hard wear you find that the keyboard has no screws but is actually sealed by a multitude of heat/melted pins, to gain access to the keyboard then you would have to un-melt all these pins and then somehow glue the keyboard to put it back together??

my own keyboard has partially stopped working due to a beer spillage which has affected 4 keys so after investigation i have had to buy a second hand unit/keyboard to replace it :-(

 

[Saga Lout]

So it's either back to Toshiba with a huge bill or lose the portability and use a USB keyboard.

My second and third laptops were Toshibas and I never had any problems with them but in the last year I've had to tell three customers I can't change their keyboard or screen and, in one case, upgrade the RAM because it's all inaccessible to anyone outside the manufacturer's own people.

 

[Paul_204]

So it's either back to Toshiba with a huge bill or lose the portability and use a USB keyboard.

My second and third laptops were Toshibas and I never had any problems with them but in the last year I've had to tell three customers I can't change their keyboard or screen and, in one case, upgrade the RAM because it's all inaccessible to anyone outside the manufacturer's own people.

Guessing by the final assembly/construction of the key board, then even toshiba would not be repairing it,they would probably just swap the top chassis/keyboard for a new one,which incidentally does not seem to be for sale to the general public from them as a new item??

 

[Saga Lout]

I rather charitably assumed the keyboard would come out downwards but I'm even more disgusted with them if I was wrong.