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ends at the center of the keyboard, stick pry tool under the lip of that strip and pull it outward/upward.
Lift it up a ½ inch and slide down to the right or left and pry the strip upward popping all the snaps
until you have freed the piece, set aside.
Other models like the Compaq Presario will have a rectangular piece that completely surrounds
the keyboard, and in order to remove the keyboard, you will need to unsnap this part and set aside.
You must be very careful when removing or unsnapping any part on the palm rest area because it
could have wires, ribbon cables connected to it and they are extremely fragile. This Presario has a
ribbon cable on the rectangular piece discussed here and it is located on the upper bar of the piece,
which travels under the keyboard and plugs into the motherboard. You will need to gently unsnap this
framing piece, though don’t pull it away, instead, you will unscrew any visible keyboard screws
which you will find at the top of the keyboard, then unplug the keyboard ribbon cable then remove the
keyboard. Then you can now also remove the rectangular keyboard frame and set aside.
The Above Photo shows the most common keyboard ribbon cable motherboard connection
locking tab port. Use your Pry tool to gently pull the left and right locking tabs upward away from the
port. You will now be able to slide the cable out.
Keyboards will sometimes have securing screws (2-4) at the top and will need to be removed.
These are smaller screws than what you will find on the underside of the laptop. Some laptops will
use locking tabs instead of screws and the photo shows these tabs slide up and down to lock and
unlock the keyboard in place. Another way some manufacturers secure the keyboard is by using spring
loaded tabs that protrude from above the keyboard and will extend over the keyboards upper tab. To
release the keyboard from these you will need a plastic pry tool or a micro size flat head screwdriver
to depress the spring loaded tabs (usually 4 of them) and simultaneously use a secondary pry tool to
pull the keyboard upward and away from the spring loaded tab continuing to release all 4 tabs, then
lifting the top of the keyboard upward and away.