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On Sun, 18 Jan 1998 13:20:22 -0700 (MST), billy@MIX.COM wrote: >> Has anyone replaced a keyboard on a 755 series (I have a cx)? >> Is it hard? Is it expensive? > >My 3 years runs out next month so I just sent mine in. It came back with >another used keyboard although it does work a lot better. It doesn't look >very hard to do yourself although good eyesight or strong glasses will be >necessary as some of the screws are very small. You can order another >keyboard (84G6495 for USA English, US$84.75) and then IBM also has a couple >spare screw kits (66G5124 for the 755, US$14.75 and a generic 84G6560 for >Thinkpads, US$17.75) - one or the other of these might be a good idea >just in case something goes flying into the land of the lost... Then >there's the Hardware Maintenance Manual (82G1502, I already have this >so I didn't get a price) which has detailed instructions on how to do it. >There is a warning about not pulling on the three keyboard cables without >first releasing the connectors' latches or the cables will be damaged. > Yeah, they are flex cables, and you have to be careful with them. You pull out on the tabs on the side of the connectors to pull the cables out. >Anyway I'm planning on keeping my 755 a few more years so I'm ordering >a spare keyboard now why they're still available... > Good idea. Now all I need is a spare ThinkPad so I can finally send in my 701 for a new keyboard. Taking that apart is a LIVING NIGHTMARE (been there once before!). -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 27 Processes with 92 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 14h 3m 56s 320ms.