keyboard replacement

[nervous]

hello all,

ive managed to wear out my keyboard on my laptop with all my furious >ahem< activity, so Im going to need to replace it. curiously, given my aversion to punctuation, its the question mark thats gone, and now having tried to fix it myself im advised its 'like, broken, and that'.

so, anyone know a god place to get a new one as cheap as possible and some sort of manual on how to do it (insert question mark here)

its a acer aspire 5040 if that helps anyone at all.

thanks in advance folks,
N.

[hut49]

nervous said:

hello all,

ive managed to wear out my keyboard on my laptop with all my furious >ahem< activity, so Im going to need to replace it. curiously, given my aversion to punctuation, its the question mark thats gone, and now having tried to fix it myself im advised its 'like, broken, and that'.

so, anyone know a god place to get a new one as cheap as possible and some sort of manual on how to do it (insert question mark here)

its a acer aspire 5040 if that helps anyone at all.

thanks in advance folks,
N.

Might be worth asking these guys - they don't list the part for the 5040 but it may be the same as one of the other 50xx units www.laptopexpress.com/products.asp?category=Acer&subcategory=Aspire (go to page 2)

[alltorque]

Go somewhere like this and buy the keyboard:

www.laptopbits.co.uk/Database_files/Laptop_Keyboard.htm

and then do something like this and replace it:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/S

Or get something like this and plug it in the usb port:

www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=36401&C=Froogle&U=36401&T=Alias&MA=Mini%20Silver%20USB%20Keyboard


HTH.

[nervous]

hut49 said:

nervous said:

hello all,

ive managed to wear out my keyboard on my laptop with all my furious >ahem< activity, so Im going to need to replace it. curiously, given my aversion to punctuation, its the question mark thats gone, and now having tried to fix it myself im advised its 'like, broken, and that'.

so, anyone know a god place to get a new one as cheap as possible and some sort of manual on how to do it (insert question mark here)

its a acer aspire 5040 if that helps anyone at all.

thanks in advance folks,
N.

Might be worth asking these guys - they don't list the part for the 5040 but it may be the same as one of the other 50xx units www.laptopexpress.com/products.asp?category=Acer&subcategory=Aspire (go to page 2)

thanks hut

[nervous]

alltorque said:

Go somewhere like this and buy the keyboard:

www.laptopbits.co.uk/Database_files/Laptop_Keyboard.htm

and then do something like this and replace it:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/S

Or get something like this and plug it in the usb port:

www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=36401&C=Froogle&U=36401&T=Alias&MA=Mini%20Silver%20USB%20Keyboard


HTH.

AT!

[nervous]

alltorque said:

Go somewhere like this and buy the keyboard:

www.laptopbits.co.uk/Database_files/Laptop_Keyboard.htm

and then do something like this and replace it:

http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/S

Or get something like this and plug it in the usb port:

www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=36401&C=Froogle&U=36401&T=Alias&MA=Mini%20Silver%20USB%20Keyboard


HTH.

ok, that keyboard is way too expensive. and thats the wrong manual. but apart from that, excellent work as ever old friend

anyone got any other pointers please (insert question mark)

[Plotloss]

www.4barmey.co.uk/cgi-bin/product.pl?PID=1361194&amp;brand=Acer&amp;model=&amp;part=

Likely to require a small screwdriver or two and about 30 minutes of your time.

[pdV6]

Hold down the ALT key and type 0063 on the numberpad and then release the ALT key to get a "?"

Oh, and then fit one of these: