Comments on: Acer Aspire 5315 Keyboard Removal

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:41:50 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you…

Worked a treat for my son’s Acer 5720 GEM. I bought a new keyboard from ebay as the existing one was broken (just after the warranty ran out!).

Like you I prolly would have removed the back cover - a real bitch as I discovered when I upgraded the RAM much earlier in its life (can’t believe they made it sooo hard to upgrade the RAM). Anyway I followed your instructions to the letter and removed and replaced the keyboard in 15 minutes - and that was going slowly with the clips.

So thanks once again for the excellent post delusional.

By: Morry

Morry — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:30:35 +0000

thanks for the help installing my replacement keyboard, i found a spare parts dealers in china that was able to ship to me in australia costing $29 US thats inc posting.

By: Randall Lind

Randall Lind — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:24:08 +0000

Delusional:

Thanks for making this blog. I got my new keyboard and was able to install it in less then 5 minutes. I did have one issue but I reseated the ribbon and it fixed my problem.

By: Randall Lind

Randall Lind — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:05:50 +0000

New Acer Aspire 5315 5920 Series Keyboard KB.INT00.036 The 00.036 matches the beginning KB number on the back of my keyboard so I will post back tomorrow I am sure iot should work.

I plan to never again bump my keyboard which cause some letters to come off. They should make a keyboard to take more abuse or redesign it so keys can easily pop back on.

By: delusional

delusional — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:48:18 +0000

This is the trouble with laptop parts.

It’s not necessarily “one size fits all”.

I’d have assumed that all 5135 spec keyboards would fit but this could be a false assumption.

Sadly for the end-user/tinkerer, it really can be a case of trail-and-error!

I’m told he sure-fire way to do it is to read the part number from the keyboard panel itself and order the replacement based on that part number. YMMV

By: Randall Lind

Randall Lind — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:27:57 +0000

One quick ? are all 5315 keyboard’s the same? I have a 5315-2713 I order a new key from Machina but what sent me didn’t work. the latch use to attach the key was smaller then what my laptop use.

I see a lot of keyboards for the 5315 on Ebay. I just want to make sure I buy the correct on. I took the keyboard out and reinstalled it so it is pretty easy.

By: delusional

delusional — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:20:07 +0000

I think it’s worth reminding everyone that if your laptop is still under warranty, you should take it back to Acer or your retailer to be fixed!

By: delusional

delusional — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:33:09 +0000

Replacing the keyboard ought to sort that out as long as the nail varnish didn’t penetrate any deeper (The keyboard sits in it’s own sort of tray)

I expect your keys might be ’stuck’ in position by the glueing effect?

By: Bella

Bella — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:57:34 +0000

Yesterday I was taking toenail polish off when my labrador retriever heard the doorbell and ran, knocking me over. I was several feet from my laptop which was open but the nail polish remover splashed pretty good on it. I can type on it but certain keys don’t work. My shift key isn’t working to capitalize certain letters but is for some? go figure. since the computer will turn on and work otherwise, should replacing the keyboard take care of this issue?

By: Jim Ward

Jim Ward — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:14:07 +0000

IRT to the CMOS battery being soldered.

My Fujitsu Lifebook 280dx (still kickin after a decade) had a soldered in battery. I very gently broke the weld to perform bios password reset (battery was later replaced). In my case the battery slot(?) was situated in the case such that the weld was really over kill. Simply bending the prongs so that they made good contact when reassembled worked fine.

I would recommend analising the setup to see if your machine might be similiarly designed.

good luck