Dodgy S on laptop keyboard.

blue_monkey_2

My S key is not working properly. If I hit it on the top or right side it works, if I hit it on the bottom or the left side it doesn't. I thought it might be sticky but it does not seem to be the case, just that one side of the key has stopped working. I did try to look to see if something is stuck underneath but I cannot see and the key does not come off like they do on my Advent so I cannot get it off and I am worried I might break it if I force it.

I've got an ACER Aspire 5920 and it is around 2 months old. Is there anything I can do to sort it out please. It is very frustrating and time consuming.

fwor

There's only one real solution - have the keyboard replaced under warranty. Any other type of "fix" is not likely to last.

buglawton

Yes, the s, e and x keys do tend to wear out quickly :rotfl:

Seriously, isn't your machine under guarantee still? The keyboards usually detach with one or 2 small catches so you might be able to have then seller send you a replacement.

blue_monkey_2

Well, I just fixed it this minute and thought I would come back to let you know. The frame that the key 'sits' on was half hanging off so not slotting back into place once I pressed it. I guess something must have got stuck under it or something. I've given it a little duct and clean but it's just taken me 10 minutes to get it back into place and a little eek moment when I saw it had fallen off!!

Rock_Bottom

I knew a girl once who had trouble with her "w" .... it was a scream when she ordered a lager and lime.

Sorry I don't have a remedy to the "s" on your keyboard.

vyseyboy

Rock_Bottom wrote: »

I knew a girl once who had trouble with her "w" .... it was a scream when she ordered a lager and lime.

Please elaborate, I can't seem to figure out the punchline?

Ice_2

I had been having trouble with my keyboard also until I put the hoover on it crumbs...my DS who you just liketo throttle had been eating some home made bread while viewing his emails...crumbs everwhere...under my lappy keyboard...one look from me and he was gone banished to his room...
lol...nothing alittle suction couldn't put right...:rotfl:

Conor_3

blue_monkey wrote: »

Well, I just fixed it this minute and thought I would come back to let you know. The frame that the key 'sits' on was half hanging off so not slotting back into place once I pressed it. I guess something must have got stuck under it or something. I've given it a little duct and clean but it's just taken me 10 minutes to get it back into place and a little eek moment when I saw it had fallen off!!

I was just going to say that. My tab key did the same and it was a bit of errant rice from a curry I'd had which had somehow managed to get under the key.

blue_monkey_2

LOL, I have to confess as it is new I've been careful not to eat around (that'll soon wear off!!). On my advent I thought I'd give the keys a hoover.... and one of the keys can off and went up the hoover. So beware if this has not happened to you already. This is how I knew the keys came off, only I could not get them off this one. Nothing a good tug could not fix, I figured it was broken already so I had nothing to loose!!

I am strill trying to get the punchline on that larger and lime joke. I am guessing that the poster made a typo and she had a problem with her l's and pronounced them as w as then she'd be ordering a wager and wime. And that would be kind of funny.