A New Keyboard
Posted by Heather, under The Geek in me! 
I’ve thought about buying a new keyboard for a while for my laptop. Because the keys were all worn down because I have the fastest typing of the west, either that or I just use it too much. I also spilled wine on them about a year ago so a couple of keys where a little harder to press down, but thankfully they were keys I never really used so it didn’t bother me so much. Almost a month ago I knocked over once again another drink onto my laptop. This time it was my beloved coffee. I grabbed the hand towel that was right next to me and rushed to clean it up. This time though in my rush I broke off one of my arrow keys and loosened up two others. I got the two to go go back down but the other was a goner. So I decided that I needed to go look for the keys to replace it. Got on eBay and found and purchased it for $5. After that I went looking around on eBay and found that I could buy a whole new keyboard for only $23. I was bummed out that I had already bided and paid for the single key. Shortly there after the seller of my single arrow key got back to me apologizing and having to refund my money because he didn’t have the exact key I needed because my keyboard has the number pad on the side. So I quickly went for the keyboard, I was so happy. I plan on keeping my old keyboard to use for key replacements if needed again. I love the feel of my new keyboard this along with my memory upgrade I did back in January from 1GB to 4GB and the OS upgrade from Vista to Beta 7 makes me feel like I have a whole new computer again.
To replace the keyboard for a HP dv9000 serious laptop is quiet simple. First you will need to obviously need to turn off your computer and close it up.
The following is borrowed from insidemylaptop.com
Remove six green screws securing the keyboard bezel and one red screw securing the keyboard.
Carefully start removing the keyboard bezel with a small Flathead screwdriver. (I used a precision screwdriver)
Be very careful, the bezel is attached to the motherboard with a flat ribbon cable. The cable location is pointed by the green arrow. Do not disconnect this cable. Simply place the bezel as it shown on the picture below.
Remove three screws securing the laptop keyboard.
Lift up the keyboard. Be careful, it’s connected to the motherboard.
In order to release the keyboard cable, you’ll have to unlock the connector as it shown on the picture above.
1. Slide the connector lock to the direction shown by two green arrows with your fingernails.
2. Pull the keyboard cable from the connector.
Now you can remove and replace the keyboard with a new one.
