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Vostro 1320 - need to replace keyboard, different key placement
After spitting water on my keyboard in Dell Vostro 1320, I need to replace it.
My old keyboard layout was as following:
However, I cannot find any new keyboard to buy which looks like this. I can buy ones with longer Left Shift and smaller Enter or one with longer Left Shift and also big enter:
The second one, which I would like to buy has diffrent placement of some keys - for example: Home and End. Will these keys be available in Windows XP in the same place as in old keyboard?
Mary G
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March 13th, 2016 11:00
It is not cost effective to repair such an old laptop. Buy a new one. There is no guarantee that water spilled on it did not ruin the motherboard as well as the KB.
DELL-Rishi
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March 13th, 2016 12:00
Hi KRZYSIOBAL,
If you would like us to provide a service call, then you could contact us via Twitter - @dellcares for faster communication and we can help provide a paid service call. Or you could send me a personal message with the service tag and your contact details.
If you wish to order and replace the parts yourself, then you could contact - https://www.parts-people.com/ - see direct link - http://bit.ly/1po9Rks
However, as advised by Mary, water spillage on the system could have damaged the keyboard controller as well. If you replace only the keyboard and it works fine, then great. If not, they keyboard controller might have been damaged and the motherboard needs replacement.
Let us know if you have any other queries.
krzysiobal
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March 13th, 2016 14:00
Thanks for very valuable messages. New genuine keyboard = 10$, used laptop of high class - 200$ or more. Please refrain from such advices in the future.
The old keyboard was definitelly broken because the traces on plastic foil had some black spots and thus had open circuits so some keys were not working. Thanks to the Dell engineers, the aluminum backplane of the keyboard is solid, so after spitting a lot of water, it will remain here and wont break the motherboard.
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While some of cheap ones has thru-hole spots:
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I still have not received answer for my question.
The laquout of my old keyboard was following:
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(The first row is: F11, F12, Home, End, Insert, Delete)
While the new keyboards are as following:
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With the first row: F11, F12, NumLock, Inert, Pause, Delete
(Home and End are available with Fn + Arrow)
So will pressing the second-top-right key on this keyboard on my system invoke the Insert or Pause key?
DELL-Rishi
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March 17th, 2016 13:00
Hi KRZYSIOBAL,
As per your picture - obrazki.elektroda.pl/5770746700_1457786109.jpg, we see that the PCB - (Printed Circuit Board) - has not been removed.
Please refer to the service manual - http://dell.to/22osPca - Page 41 - where it describes removal of the complete keyboard, where PCB is part of the keyboard.
Also refer to the link in my previous post - http://bit.ly/1po9Rks - where the keyboard is a Dell part. This keyboard should fit your system.
Let us know if you have any other queries.