I've been repairing computers for years, this replacement was a hassle. Thank you for posting this video, here's hoping I don't have to do another one of these any the soon.
I have been repairing things from cars to computers for almost 30 years and the mag bar to label screws is brilliant. BTW, an 18" magnetic tool holder like the one in the video is $5 at Harbor Freight.
In addition to using a soldering iron to melt and eraser to mash & cool, I also used some ABS cement to weld pieces that broke during disassembly and also to repair threaded nuts embedded in the case that had stripped out--like those that hold the screen hinges to the case. This is the same cement used to weld ABS plumbing pipes since the case is ABS. Just use a skinny flat metal screw driver; dip it in the abs cement and apply where needed. The solvent will melt the two pieces of plastic together and then re-harden like new. Let solidify overnight. Also let screwdriver dry overnight and easily clean off hardened plastic with razor blade in morning. I saw another guy do this replacement and then just used tape to hold in the replacement keyboard! It worked for him, buy looked super janky. This video's method is the best for a secure keyboard.
10:57 - I highly don't recommend to remove plastic sticks by this way. Cause you will damage the plastic rods, which are holding the keyboard on the bottom case. Than more of the plastic rode remained undamaged, those easier it will be to stick a new keyboard with a melted plastic at 13:13. Actually, you only need to remove the thin plastic layer around the rod, which is like the petals around the flower, and that is enough to you can remove the entire keyboard out of the rods. And you don't need to use such barbarian tool as a screwdriver or a chisel; it is enough easy to remove the plastic "petals" only by your own nails (or someone else person, who don't care about their manicure) - it is safer for the plastic rods.
Boy, you haven't probably seen the MacBooks. Much much much worse, it's near-irreplaceable: • Metal retainers instead of plastic (better level up that soldering skills) • Convoluted disassembly process that requires you to remove EVERYTHING underneath it • With up to 27 of different sizes and types of fragile, easy-to-strip screws (and they're not Philips screws-a combination of Pentalobe, tri-wing and torx screws) • AND if you did successfully finished the replacement process it will NOT still recognize the keyboard because alas, some components of some of the MacBook models are cryptographically paired to the motherboard processor/SoC, or in some models the keyboard is paired to the top case and the force touchpad
Apple absolutely wants third party repair dead (unless if it's their sanctioned ones.)
This is the best video on KB swap I've found! I desperately could have used this video last weekend! I too had broken keys on my KB. I gave up when I saw the 3000 melted plastic pegs I had to deal with to get at the KB. I ordered a new laptop but in my defence, the old one is 5+ years old, so end of life for it. 😀
Warning!!! Do not follow this example of replacing the keyboard or you will have problems - As you can clearly see towards the end of the video the last few seconds of it where she shows you she can now press the key she broke before, you can clearly see that the keyboard she replaced is sagging in the middle and the keys don't stand proud of the palmrest cover, the D key and following keys are more or less level with the palmrest and there is no consistency with any of the keys standing proud of the palmrest!! The reason for this is she did NOT plastic weld the actual keyboard itself to the palmrest case before plastic welding the metal keyboard frame on top of the keyboard, she thought that the frame would hold the keyboard in place firmly, but it doesn't work like that, the plastic rivets she broke off when taking the old keyboard out ARE there for a reason and that is to stop the keyboard from sinking back into the palmrest!! I give the woman 10 out of 10 for effort trying to replace the keyboard but that is NOT the correct way to replace the keyboard!!
Thank you for this video. I confirmed the keyboard was bad and this was, by far, the most comprehensive repair video. The soldiering iron trick with the plastic melt was ingenious!
Nice technique of rubber-cooled-melted-plastic. It's pretty fantastic😁 Dealing with repairs that kind is always pain in the ass, but repairing stuff is allways better than throwing away
Simply amazing that HP decided to plastic rivet the KB to the chassis. Amazing. 5 screws, one on each corner and one in the middle. How much could that have raised prod cost?! My God that's cheap.
Thank goodness for your video. I had to replace the upper case assembly ( re-used the keypad). I assumed the keypad was held in with screws. WRONG. I used your video to get my laptop back together. Thank you so much.
i have tried all sorts of methods to keep track of the many screws some of which might be different by only 1 mm. i have had a magnet bar sitting i the workshop without a use for years. it is going to become my labeled screw holder. what a wonderful idea, takes up a lot less room than an egg box.thanks
Thanks a lot, this guide worked for me well. For anyone trying, be careful of the keyboard alignment or else the keys will get stuck while pressing. And don't forget to fix the keyboard individually also apart from the metal sheet
I have hated working on HP laptops for years until I got this exact repair to do. Now, I charge extra for working on HP laptops. I will never recommend HP for laptops ever again. People talk about Apple and their right to repair, but stuff like this slips under the radar. Serious trooper, though!
Great video! This is no fun. Just wanted to point out on those ribbon cables, the blue plastic tabs on the ends are designed for pulling the cables out of those connectors rather than putting stress on the ribbon cables. When re-installing they help line up the ribbon.
Thank you so much! My wife broke off the nuts for the hinge off the palmrest on one side. Ordered the parts and I was about to say screw it till I saw your guide. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the video. I came here for the keyboard part. I tried it and didn't reheat and refasten the plastic fasteners that I broke off and now the frame that goes over the keyboard lifts up at the center and it gives the keys a lower profile look, haha. I can type on it just fine, but its an eyesore. What type of plastic did you use with your iron to refasten those plastic clips? I want to try your method. Thanks again!
Great look into this beast. I have to do this repair this weekend on my sons laptop which lost the "w" key. I have some PLA from the 3d printer ill use to re-stake the board. Going to try to use a hot air re-work soldering tool instead of the iron... hopefully that works. Thanks!
Was thinking about replacing the silver backlit keyboard on my HP laptop with a black backlit keyboard because the silver letters can be hard to read under certain conditions. Not so sure I want to go through all this for it now. And those "heat stakes". Sheesh! What a dumb idea. Surely they could have come up with something better than that!
Thank you very much for this guide. It is by far the best and most detailed and imo most professional on youtube for this keyboard types. Sadly i do not have such good fingernails as you.^^
I love you! What kind of plastic did you use to rivet the plate back on? I've gone through the journey and replaced my keyboard! It's a little bit saggy and i need to go back in and secure it on, I tried to use one plastic but it definitely wasn't the right kind.
great video! let me ask you a question, my friend. I got a broken keyboard with a functioning backligh and the replacement without backlight is significantly cheaper. Is there a way I can take the backlight from the broken one and install it on the new one? Its a HP envy 15T-J178ca
Unless you are very experienced, I would not recomend this. I replaced my keyboard, but getting the plastic tabs melted back on is difficult. The new plastic keeps popping off. Also my laptop is very old so the plastic is brittle, and the nuts for the screen hinge got loose, so opening the laptop now cracks open the plastic like the pry tool. So it is better to just replace the individual keys from a new doner keyboard.
Good morning, I wanted to ask you two questions. The first one, which team is the one in the video? And the second, what is the free port next to the hard disk for?
Hello, I need your help. Hp Pavilion laptop Model 15-csoo22ci keyboard is broken. Hp Pavilion laptop Model 15-csoo22ci replacement keyboard, what is needed?
I spilled soda on mine today and i was able to remove and put back about 8 keys including the space bar and im pretty sure you could have just replaced that one key.
I’ve got a link in the video description. If you click on the title under the video the link should take you to the same keyboard. It’s also possible to replace just the key. Replacing the key was not a possibility in our case because the plastic pieces were actually broken.
I was using ABS plastic to create the heat steak. As long as the Iron is past 450° I’m sure to work. It is possible to buy the keypads for the keyboard individually. After getting this deep into the project this was one of the options I would want to check on first. I’d rather work from the top on one key then go through the whole computer to get to the keyboard from the bottom. Just out of curiosity what is wrong with your keyboard.
What if I spilled a little bit of water on this keyboard? I immediatly turned it off, after turning it over and cleared everything? A little bit of advice wouldnt hurt
Go buy a Plano organizer box and to came put the screws in the box in the same design that they came off the laptop and never lose a screw or put a screw in the wrong place and it makes it faster.
Every place we fix em , laptop ,pc . Well , its gonna coast to much or parts are hard to get , should just buy a new on . they HP DELL AND SUCH make it very difficult to do your own repair or to wear the small shops wanna either to take the time to fix em for you.
@@elleon1207 the keyboard is not retained correctly on the middle. it is retsined correcty in the corners by screws but the rest is just pushed into the computer
I want to replace my Keyboard so Thanks for making this Vid, As Soon as I saw your new replacement Keyboard I Screamed NO NO NO!!!!!!!! all this trouble and you replaced it with a Piece-O-Crap Silver Keyboard Ughhhhh the person that designed this with Silver Keys should be Lashed...... Silver Keyboards suck there is no contrast and keys are difficult to see if not down right impossible outdoors or in s bright room, If you are going to all this trouble replace it with a Black one I feel people will thank themselves every time they go to use there HP laptop in anything but a Dark room. I hate my Silver Keyboard.
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I've been repairing computers for years, this replacement was a hassle. Thank you for posting this video, here's hoping I don't have to do another one of these any the soon.
I have been repairing things from cars to computers for almost 30 years and the mag bar to label screws is brilliant. BTW, an 18" magnetic tool holder like the one in the video is $5 at Harbor Freight.
In addition to using a soldering iron to melt and eraser to mash & cool, I also used some ABS cement to weld pieces that broke during disassembly and also to repair threaded nuts embedded in the case that had stripped out--like those that hold the screen hinges to the case. This is the same cement used to weld ABS plumbing pipes since the case is ABS. Just use a skinny flat metal screw driver; dip it in the abs cement and apply where needed. The solvent will melt the two pieces of plastic together and then re-harden like new. Let solidify overnight. Also let screwdriver dry overnight and easily clean off hardened plastic with razor blade in morning. I saw another guy do this replacement and then just used tape to hold in the replacement keyboard! It worked for him, buy looked super janky. This video's method is the best for a secure keyboard.
Awesome :)
10:57 - I highly don't recommend to remove plastic sticks by this way. Cause you will damage the plastic rods, which are holding the keyboard on the bottom case. Than more of the plastic rode remained undamaged, those easier it will be to stick a new keyboard with a melted plastic at 13:13. Actually, you only need to remove the thin plastic layer around the rod, which is like the petals around the flower, and that is enough to you can remove the entire keyboard out of the rods. And you don't need to use such barbarian tool as a screwdriver or a chisel; it is enough easy to remove the plastic "petals" only by your own nails (or someone else person, who don't care about their manicure) - it is safer for the plastic rods.
Wow! It's almost like they don't want you to be able to replace the keyboard...
We're supposed to replace the entire top panel, palmrest and all. The cheapest I found it was $84.00.
@@SusanStone63 where was that, I need one
That's because they don't. They want you to get a new one. HP has been getting very sneaky lately with their business practices
At least is not like in the MacBooks that has metal retainers hah
Boy, you haven't probably seen the MacBooks. Much much much worse, it's near-irreplaceable:
• Metal retainers instead of plastic (better level up that soldering skills)
• Convoluted disassembly process that requires you to remove EVERYTHING underneath it
• With up to 27 of different sizes and types of fragile, easy-to-strip screws (and they're not Philips screws-a combination of Pentalobe, tri-wing and torx screws)
• AND if you did successfully finished the replacement process it will NOT still recognize the keyboard because alas, some components of some of the MacBook models are cryptographically paired to the motherboard processor/SoC, or in some models the keyboard is paired to the top case and the force touchpad
Apple absolutely wants third party repair dead (unless if it's their sanctioned ones.)
(Starting at 10:22) This is an excellent description of what must be done to replace a (non replaceable) keyboard. A+
I encountered this same situation on Asus ROG GL502VT.
These inbuilt Keyboards are nightmares. Companies are doing this to hinder the local or self serviceability of the Product.
This is the best video on KB swap I've found! I desperately could have used this video last weekend! I too had broken keys on my KB. I gave up when I saw the 3000 melted plastic pegs I had to deal with to get at the KB. I ordered a new laptop but in my defence, the old one is 5+ years old, so end of life for it. 😀
Thanks. I just finished replacing my friend laptop's keyboard with a help from your video. I didn't have plastic to weld so I used glue gun instead.
Warning!!! Do not follow this example of replacing the keyboard or you will have problems - As you can clearly see towards the end of the video the last few seconds of it where she shows you she can now press the key she broke before, you can clearly see that the keyboard she replaced is sagging in the middle and the keys don't stand proud of the palmrest cover, the D key and following keys are more or less level with the palmrest and there is no consistency with any of the keys standing proud of the palmrest!! The reason for this is she did NOT plastic weld the actual keyboard itself to the palmrest case before plastic welding the metal keyboard frame on top of the keyboard, she thought that the frame would hold the keyboard in place firmly, but it doesn't work like that, the plastic rivets she broke off when taking the old keyboard out ARE there for a reason and that is to stop the keyboard from sinking back into the palmrest!! I give the woman 10 out of 10 for effort trying to replace the keyboard but that is NOT the correct way to replace the keyboard!!
Same problem here. How did you solve It?
Thank you for this video. I confirmed the keyboard was bad and this was, by far, the most comprehensive repair video. The soldiering iron trick with the plastic melt was ingenious!
Nice technique of rubber-cooled-melted-plastic. It's pretty fantastic😁 Dealing with repairs that kind is always pain in the ass, but repairing stuff is allways better than throwing away
I agree, this was an excellent idea, thank you!
Simply amazing that HP decided to plastic rivet the KB to the chassis. Amazing. 5 screws, one on each corner and one in the middle. How much could that have raised prod cost?! My God that's cheap.
planned obsolescence. laissez-faire capitalism is inherently anti-consumer
Oh boy. Wait until you get into MacBooks.
Replacing the (non-replaceable) keyboard on it is like Tim Cook giving you a middle finger to your face.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. This helped me out a lot with replacing my keyboard with a backlit version. Great job.
Thank goodness for your video. I had to replace the upper case assembly ( re-used the keypad). I assumed the keypad was held in with screws. WRONG. I used your video to get my laptop back together. Thank you so much.
i have tried all sorts of methods to keep track of the many screws some of which might be different by only 1 mm. i have had a magnet bar sitting i the workshop without a use for years. it is going to become my labeled screw holder. what a wonderful idea, takes up a lot less room than an egg box.thanks
Thanks a lot, this guide worked for me well. For anyone trying, be careful of the keyboard alignment or else the keys will get stuck while pressing. And don't forget to fix the keyboard individually also apart from the metal sheet
And yes, you really have amazing wonderful soft voice, and you are have so much patience too. It was a lovely experience watching your video.
This is fantastic, thank you so much. Bonus for having such a sweet relaxing voice. I want to fall asleep with you reading me a book haha
Haha, top simp of 2020 :)
My lord.... how long did this actually take you from start to finish?
I have hated working on HP laptops for years until I got this exact repair to do. Now, I charge extra for working on HP laptops. I will never recommend HP for laptops ever again. People talk about Apple and their right to repair, but stuff like this slips under the radar. Serious trooper, though!
Great ways that you took caring each part of the notebook. Thank you for posting this video and especially I enjoyed listening .
I have one question - Which plastic to use for soldering it back? I will need to order that.
You're unbelievable... Unfortunately I have to have the same challenge & probably succeed.
But this was an awesome guide, gr8 work. Thank you !
FYI that hole in the cd rom drive is to pop the drive open use a paper clip
Great video! This is no fun. Just wanted to point out on those ribbon cables, the blue plastic tabs on the ends are designed for pulling the cables out of those connectors rather than putting stress on the ribbon cables. When re-installing they help line up the ribbon.
Excellent video! I admire your patience. 🙂 After watching this, I decided to live with the imperfect keyboard I have.😂
I miss those days where the keyboard is held in with clips instead of rivets and replacing these keyboards can be done in under 50 seconds.
Thank you so much! My wife broke off the nuts for the hinge off the palmrest on one side. Ordered the parts and I was about to say screw it till I saw your guide. Thank you so much!
Very detailed and precise, video quality is very good, voice is perfect. Thanks
Thanks for the video. I came here for the keyboard part. I tried it and didn't reheat and refasten the plastic fasteners that I broke off and now the frame that goes over the keyboard lifts up at the center and it gives the keys a lower profile look, haha. I can type on it just fine, but its an eyesore. What type of plastic did you use with your iron to refasten those plastic clips? I want to try your method. Thanks again!
Great look into this beast. I have to do this repair this weekend on my sons laptop which lost the "w" key. I have some PLA from the 3d printer ill use to re-stake the board. Going to try to use a hot air re-work soldering tool instead of the iron... hopefully that works. Thanks!
Hi. Thank you for the video; well done. How do you call that plastic thing you use with the soldering gun to fill in the wholes? Thank you.
Was thinking about replacing the silver backlit keyboard on my HP laptop with a black backlit keyboard because the silver letters can be hard to read under certain conditions.
Not so sure I want to go through all this for it now.
And those "heat stakes". Sheesh! What a dumb idea. Surely they could have come up with something better than that!
Thanks for the idea on rebuilding the heat stakes. I was wondering what I might do. I saw one guy use duck tape and that just didn't seem right.
Thank you very much for this guide. It is by far the best and most detailed and imo most professional on youtube for this keyboard types. Sadly i do not have such good fingernails as you.^^
man this makes me want to buy a dell. I'm looking at a HP Victus, but this looks like a pain.
I liked the way you explained, it would be perfect if you didn´t cut the las part, I really struggled removing the black dots.
This video was great help when I had to replace my keyboard.
I love you! What kind of plastic did you use to rivet the plate back on? I've gone through the journey and replaced my keyboard! It's a little bit saggy and i need to go back in and secure it on, I tried to use one plastic but it definitely wasn't the right kind.
just use some pla, from a 3d printer, its cheap
@@thomasa.7759 Did it work for you?
Very detailed and informative video , liked your dedicated work and tips ,thanks !
great video!
let me ask you a question, my friend. I got a broken keyboard with a functioning backligh and the replacement without backlight is significantly cheaper. Is there a way I can take the backlight from the broken one and install it on the new one?
Its a HP envy 15T-J178ca
Unless you are very experienced, I would not recomend this. I replaced my keyboard, but getting the plastic tabs melted back on is difficult. The new plastic keeps popping off. Also my laptop is very old so the plastic is brittle, and the nuts for the screen hinge got loose, so opening the laptop now cracks open the plastic like the pry tool. So it is better to just replace the individual keys from a new doner keyboard.
Good morning, I wanted to ask you two questions. The first one, which team is the one in the video? And the second, what is the free port next to the hard disk for?
Great video. Thank you. It came in very handy.
Gracias por instruir. Pude reemplazar mi teclado de una HP Pavilion 15cs . Muchas gracias
can you please tell me where to buy the plastic stick when replacing the keyboard
Thank you so much for posting this. This is so helpful. It will same me tons of efforts and risks.
This lady has THREE HANDS 😆😆
Great work but what a crap development to have to take everything apart just to access the keyboard.
Hello, I need your help. Hp Pavilion laptop Model 15-csoo22ci keyboard is broken. Hp Pavilion laptop Model 15-csoo22ci replacement keyboard, what is needed?
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
did you reattach cables 1 and 2 with the soldering iron?
Will this work on HP Pavilion 15 CB model? Looks very similar...
Great video, anyone known where can I buy the whole top panel?
How do you deal with the resulting curved keyboard?
Which keyboard model fits in pavillion 15cc? and how to order the genuine product?
Did You see Cmos battery anywhere. I'm getting Cmos battery error on my laptop, but I cant find it on the board.
Very very good, very good details, gratulations and thank you.
I spilled soda on mine today and i was able to remove and put back about 8 keys including the space bar and im pretty sure you could have just replaced that one key.
How did you remove 8 keys. Did u disassemble the whole laptop to
@@mogz00002 no i pulled evenly on the key straight up using 2 rigid thin or sharp non serrated plastic tabs.
But the keys feel a little harder to press now but mine might still have some dry soda pop.
I dissasembled the laptop bcause the soda pop was underneath the keyboard and almost got to the board.
From where did you buy the keyboard???
I too have the same issue with my laptop pavillion 14-ba152TX but I can't find a keyboard for it
I’ve got a link in the video description. If you click on the title under the video the link should take you to the same keyboard. It’s also possible to replace just the key. Replacing the key was not a possibility in our case because the plastic pieces were actually broken.
where did you get your keyboard from?
Where can I find the right keyboard for my Pavilion 15?
Hi, from where did you buy the keyboard. please answer me i am desperate
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UK-silver-keyboard-for-HP-Pavilion-15-cc076na-15-cc076sa-15-cc547na-15-cc548na/152978341112?hash=item239e383cf8:g:hcgAAOSw4nZay2BN
Amazon has it
Cheaper in alixpress
Hi, can you share the link to buy the keyboard?
how do we reattach the heated plastic risers that way it's snip off the tips what do we use to attach those with
The technique at 13:00 is done with ABS plastic and a soldering iron.
What kind of plastic are you using to hold down the new keyboard? And what temp is your soldering tool at?
I was using ABS plastic to create the heat steak. As long as the Iron is past 450° I’m sure to work. It is possible to buy the keypads for the keyboard individually. After getting this deep into the project this was one of the options I would want to check on first. I’d rather work from the top on one key then go through the whole computer to get to the keyboard from the bottom. Just out of curiosity what is wrong with your keyboard.
@@livefree6878 I had some missing keys and I think I had some liquid damage
@@livefree6878 Also were you melting it on aluminum or metal?
Are you working on a turned on pc?
What if I spilled a little bit of water on this keyboard? I immediatly turned it off, after turning it over and cleared everything? A little bit of advice wouldnt hurt
Go buy a Plano organizer box and to came put the screws in the box in the same design that they came off the laptop and never lose a screw or put a screw in the wrong place and it makes it faster.
I have a german keyboard (qwertz) and would like to change it to us standard, can I just replace the covers of the buttons?
lmao i want to do the samething
@@JustShaheenGames I'll let you know how it goes, as far as I understand - you just need a flat headed screwdriver and a gentle hand
You're Awesome... Thanks
You are a life saver ❤️
Model number..??
I don't know if I'm the only one but the keyboard of this laptop is very fragile.
I have a different laptop but with the same keyboard and yeah its fragile
Muchas gracias. !
Thank you!
Every place we fix em , laptop ,pc . Well , its gonna coast to much or parts are hard to get , should just buy a new on . they HP DELL AND SUCH make it very difficult to do your own repair or to wear the small shops wanna either to take the time to fix em for you.
I didn't do the melting plastic thing, the keyboard feels horrible, dont be lazy like me guys. Also i f'ed up the backlight somehow
What happens if you dont do the melting plastic thing?
@@elleon1207 the keyboard is not retained correctly on the middle. it is retsined correcty in the corners by screws but the rest is just pushed into the computer
@@manolinmero basically HP laptops are pain in the ass. lmao
@@elleon1207 its bad but at least its fixable unlike razer and surface laptops
Nice job, thanks for video.
Thanks, I appreciate it. There’s a lot of things that need to be removed to get to the keyboard.
Bigger problem for me now is to get new keyboard for replacement :/
All I need to replace is 1 key not the whole thing
wow this is complicated than i thought lmao
thank you! so i need plastic keyboard
I got to my keyboard from the top, and didnt disconnet anything
How did you do this? my cat spilled a candle into mine...just want to clean it...
So nice video mam keep it up love this video
Thanks, it’s so nice to have the D key back. Computers working like a champ.
Very useful video one by one telling
I have a Issue mam?
Can you help me!
Very nice job but the quality of notebooks nowdays are a real crap!
It took no time for me. I purchased a remote keyboard from staples for now for 16 dollars!
this laptop is running shutdown laptop properly after that open
did I just saw a blue led light (near the hdd) blinking while doing this? lol
Very use videos
Is she good or is she good!?👌
Just compare repleacing keypads and hp pavillion 15. This is well decribed but a lot of steps and so fragile. Never Pavillion again
The engineering is horrible. T
I want to replace my Keyboard so Thanks for making this Vid, As Soon as I saw your new replacement Keyboard I Screamed NO NO NO!!!!!!!! all this trouble and you replaced it with a Piece-O-Crap Silver Keyboard Ughhhhh the person that designed this with Silver Keys should be Lashed...... Silver Keyboards suck there is no contrast and keys are difficult to see if not down right impossible outdoors or in s bright room, If you are going to all this trouble replace it with a Black one I feel people will thank themselves every time they go to use there HP laptop in anything but a Dark room. I hate my Silver Keyboard.
Good :)
wow . way too complicated than i think .
nothing to it
So hard