Our 5 year old Acer Extensa laptop is being dismantled by Nandan.
2 years and a month old, and he can use the windows key to pop up the start menu, use the touchpad to go to his favorite program (skype, to check if Gaan-ma is Off ine or not).
Other shenanigans include opening all sites one by one in the favorites bar, playing minesweeper, changing skype profile image, changing windows user image (dont know how he manages this one), playing Reversi at expert level setting (maybe watching me on it most of the time)
Recently though I found two of the keys missing.
After searching and finding the parts, the problem was how to put them back!
I cannot offer any images here, though it would have been helpful.
To fit the key back, follow these steps
- Take out all pieces, dont leave anything on the keyboard. Usually there are 3. The button, and two other parts.
- The 2 parts apart from the button will fit into each other like an X
- In the case of Acer keyboard, one piece will go into the other and pivot, thus forming a movable X that moves freely at the midpoint.
- To make the pivot, there will be two pins sticking out of one piece which go into holes in the other piece. These holes are not very visible, but they are there! I found it after lot of attempts to fit the pieces in.
- OK. After getting the movable X ready, flatten it after hooking to the points in the keyboard. The two pieces will have their points which will snap in.
- Finally push the keyboard button into place and push it all the way down hard.
- Hopefully you will hear a couple of click sounds which is of the 2 parts binding to the Button
Good luck!
2 years and a month old, and he can use the windows key to pop up the start menu, use the touchpad to go to his favorite program (skype, to check if Gaan-ma is Off ine or not).
Other shenanigans include opening all sites one by one in the favorites bar, playing minesweeper, changing skype profile image, changing windows user image (dont know how he manages this one), playing Reversi at expert level setting (maybe watching me on it most of the time)
Recently though I found two of the keys missing.
After searching and finding the parts, the problem was how to put them back!
I cannot offer any images here, though it would have been helpful.
To fit the key back, follow these steps
- Take out all pieces, dont leave anything on the keyboard. Usually there are 3. The button, and two other parts.
- The 2 parts apart from the button will fit into each other like an X
- In the case of Acer keyboard, one piece will go into the other and pivot, thus forming a movable X that moves freely at the midpoint.
- To make the pivot, there will be two pins sticking out of one piece which go into holes in the other piece. These holes are not very visible, but they are there! I found it after lot of attempts to fit the pieces in.
- OK. After getting the movable X ready, flatten it after hooking to the points in the keyboard. The two pieces will have their points which will snap in.
- Finally push the keyboard button into place and push it all the way down hard.
- Hopefully you will hear a couple of click sounds which is of the 2 parts binding to the Button
Good luck!
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