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I have a Dell 600m notebook. Recently my brother spilled coke into the keyboard and wrecked it (or so I thought). So I called up Dell and thankfully the keyboard was covered under my complete care warranty. It was also fortunate that the coke did not hit any of the internals, there was a little bit on some metal shielding that I was able to easily clean off with some warm water and a cloth.
So yesterday I got a replacement keyboard from Dell. Only took from Friday night to Tuesday, less than 2 business days. I like Dell's customer service. But I digress.
After I replaced the keyboard, I got a little curious about the old one. Since it was now basically scrap I decided to open it up and find out exactly why it wasn't working right.
It turns out these little plastic hinges were causing the problem. I simply removed the offending keys, tossed them in a jar with some dish soap, shook them around, and voila, they were good again.
I then reinserted the keys into their slots, of which an example is below.
As you can see, there is still a little bit of coke left in there, but not enough to affect performance.
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So here I am with 2 working keyboards. Obviously I don't want to let one just sit around collecting dust. I was wondering if anyone new anything I could do to mod this to allow me to use it with a regular computer, be it through USB or whatever.
Here is a picture of the connector for the keyboard.
The top has 5 connectors, the bottom has 25. Sorry if the picture quality is poor, it took me 6 tries to get one this good.
Here is a picture of the whole keyboard.
It is quite compact and has a nice tactile feel. I would love to be able to make a small case for it and use it for miscellaneous stuff such as lanning. Its so light and I've found it to work well for gaming.
Any help you can give me on how to mod this to use with my desktop would be great. As in the title, I'm not sure if it is possible, but it sure would be nice.
I need info mostly on the connectors, maybe a reference picture on the function of all the pins, how to mod it to a connector my pc will accept, that sort of thing.
Regards,
Xaeon
PS: Sorry if anyone has a problem with the picture quality. It's very tough to photograph such small objects well. If any of the pics are too large, just let me know.
So yesterday I got a replacement keyboard from Dell. Only took from Friday night to Tuesday, less than 2 business days. I like Dell's customer service. But I digress.
After I replaced the keyboard, I got a little curious about the old one. Since it was now basically scrap I decided to open it up and find out exactly why it wasn't working right.
It turns out these little plastic hinges were causing the problem. I simply removed the offending keys, tossed them in a jar with some dish soap, shook them around, and voila, they were good again.
I then reinserted the keys into their slots, of which an example is below.
As you can see, there is still a little bit of coke left in there, but not enough to affect performance.
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So here I am with 2 working keyboards. Obviously I don't want to let one just sit around collecting dust. I was wondering if anyone new anything I could do to mod this to allow me to use it with a regular computer, be it through USB or whatever.
Here is a picture of the connector for the keyboard.
The top has 5 connectors, the bottom has 25. Sorry if the picture quality is poor, it took me 6 tries to get one this good.
Here is a picture of the whole keyboard.
It is quite compact and has a nice tactile feel. I would love to be able to make a small case for it and use it for miscellaneous stuff such as lanning. Its so light and I've found it to work well for gaming.
Any help you can give me on how to mod this to use with my desktop would be great. As in the title, I'm not sure if it is possible, but it sure would be nice.
I need info mostly on the connectors, maybe a reference picture on the function of all the pins, how to mod it to a connector my pc will accept, that sort of thing.
Regards,
Xaeon
PS: Sorry if anyone has a problem with the picture quality. It's very tough to photograph such small objects well. If any of the pics are too large, just let me know.
