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My girlfriend has a DELL Inspiron 1545. Last week, she was typing away, when she depressed the 'O' key and noticed it wouldn't click properly. I gave it a peek, and found it detached from the tiny linkage system underneath it.

The key's on these Dell Laptops are much more complicated than the typical desktop keyboards I've grown accustomed to where you can easily remove keys.

I attempted to simply affix. No luck. It's not as simple, to just align and then depress it downwards. As I mentioned before there's this sort of ladder linkage that attaches the key to the Dell Latitude D820 Keyboard--- it reduces the travel for the key I'm assuming. (lighter/more compact)

Anyway, I'm wondering if any of you have experience fixing these keyboards? Have any advice on how to go about simply attaching the letter 'O' back to the keyboard properly. The key still works, and passes the 'hit' down to the microboard, but the actual ease of suppressing it, and the misalignment is well, quite fucking irritating LOL..

We called DELL, and their call centre guy suggested sending it away for 2 weeks. At this time that just isn't feasible. There's alot on her plate; the laptop is needed for the next while. Further, it'd be much easier to simply fix it at home.

Do you have the experience that Dell Latitude E5500 Keyboard keys are coming out or not working? I recently just got my dell Inspiron 1545 last year and the keyboard suddenly stopped working after it got to the login screen.
As far as keyboard not working problem, there are two cases. when a specific key is not working, turn off the computer and use a can of compressed air to clean around the problem key and then retest the keyboard. If it's the whole keyboard non working, here is an answer to try: shut down the notebook;remove the battery for a couple of seconds and replace it. It works for me well. The Dell Studio 1737 Keyboard locks up on mine when I turn the notebook on while in tablet mode. The cover is closed with the screen facing out. Concerning on the software, what can you do about it? Sometimes some software has replaced the default USB keyboard driver, or there are something with your windows usb device driver. In this case, try to delete all your "usb keyboard" from Device Manager (win+r, devmgmt.msc), and then plugin the Dell Latitude D620 Keyboard in another usb hub, let devmgmt.msc scan for new installation. If it still does not work, you may need to repair your windows system files with a windows installation CD choose to repair install.
If anyone have the similar problem that keyboard keys came out or fell off, how to get it back on? If you have the key cap and key retainer, you just need to assemble them back. Carefully remove the cap and put the key cap on the retainer and snap the cap back in place. On the other hand, you will purchase a single key for your lost key or retainer. Then put the new key back in place as the former way. After fingering out the preceding steps and the Dell Latitude D630 Keyboard still does not work or neither work correctly, try to contact Dell Technical Support or replace a new Dell Inspiron 1501 Keyboard. Many laptop keyboard, when they get old, are experiencing the kind of problems mentioned. What you can do is buy the new keyboard and replace it with the existing one.

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