ASUS X502CA Palm Rest with Keyboard and Touch Pad Replacement

Introduction

The keyboard and touch pad are contained within the palm rest. If you are experiancing problems with the keyboard or the touch pad and need to replace one of them, you will need to replace the entire palm rest with keyboard and touch pad.

What you need

Step 1 Palm Rest with Keyboard and Touch Pad

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Use the Phillips #00 screwdriver to remove the seven 90mm screws.
Use the Phillips #00 screwdriver to remove the four 50mm screws.

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Step 2

Next, use the plastic opening tool to carefully pop off the keyboard cover panel.
Be cautious when pulling off the cover because there are cables you will have to disconnect before completely removing the panel.

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Step 3

Tool used on this step:

Tweezers

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Lift palm rest and unplug keyboard cable and touchpad cable using tweezers. After these two cables have been unplugged you can remove the keyboard cover panel.

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