'Backspace', 't' and 'y' Keys not working??

[Gompo]

Hi,

Laptop was working perfect, but then all of a sudden (after watching a video perhaps) these keys are not working. Have restarted a couple of times and started in safe mode, and nothing has made any difference. Not working in Firefox or Word/Wordpad. Laptop has had a fair bit of use, but I am curious as to why they would stop working all of a sudden and all at the same time?

Any ideas? Rather frustrating as you can imagine!

Cheers, Greg.

[AB]

You spaffed on the keyboard after watching said video?

[AndrewW-G]

Probably a broken connection or circuit on the keyboards connectors, easy to remove and replace for approx £20-30

[plasticpig]

Probably a broken circuit on the board. The flexing of the circuit board by typing causes this eventually.

[Morningside]

Multiplexing. To save connections all(most) keys are connected in a group. So 1 dataline may be shared by many keys.

For example:


Sounds like either there is a small tear in the keyboard membrane or connector. I suspect its the main keyboard. Have you knocked it or dropped it lately?

What make is it? As mentioned they are about £20 to £30 and not too hard to replace.

[Gompo]

Cheers for the replies. I thought it might be like a fuse going on a car, knocking various things/keys
out in one go..

Morningside said:

Have you knocked it or dropped it lately?

What make is it? As mentioned they are about £20 to £30 and not too hard to replace.

It's had some stick although nothing major in the last month or so. It seems the square bracket's have gone too.

It's a Lenovo, coming upto 2.5 years old.

Many thanks,

Greg

[Morningside]

You could (if brave) carefully take the keyboard and reseat the connector - Although it may not be that.

IF you do, please make sure you remove the battery first!

I know it sounds daft, but it does come as quite a shock when you start to dismantle and it then powers up.

[Kudos]

how did you write the subject line?

[andy_s]

Cu and pas e.

[Gompo]

I dont think I will try to repair it myself - just incase something goes wrong. I had been thinking about getting another laptop in the near future. May get this one fixed but have it as a backup..

Should the average 'Laptop Repairs' place be able to manage this?

[Morningside]

Gompo said:

I dont think I will try to repair it myself - just incase something goes wrong. I had been thinking about getting another laptop in the near future. May get this one fixed but have it as a backup..

Should the average 'Laptop Repairs' place be able to manage this?

Yes. Do a search and checkout the price of a keyboard for it first - Changing a keyboard is not that hard at all.

I suspect you know but in the meantime you can plug in a standard USB keyboard and use that.

[Man-At-Arms]

Morningside said:

As mentioned they are about £20 to £30 and not too hard to replace.

i don't know, did you see Something for the Weekend this morning ?
they had on a new touch sensitive keyboard, designed for easy wipe down
@ £350 !

[Big_Dog]

Not sure if you know this but most IBM/Lenovo laptops have a 3 year warrantee all worked from the serial number. Mines 2 years old and had a new fan last week. Next day onsite too.