HP Elitebook 820 G1 Keyboard Replacement

Introduction

This guide demonstrates how to safely remove and replace a damaged or malfunctioning keyboard. Following these steps should ensure a simple replacement for a keyboard that has experienced a spill, is missing keys, or otherwise does not function correctly.

What you need

Step 1 Battery

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Ensure the laptop is completely powered off and power adapter is unplugged before removing the battery.
Turn over laptop so that the bottom is showing.
Unlock the latch.

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Step 2

Remove the back cover and you will then be able to see the battery.

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Step 3

Unlatch the two latches securing the battery in the case.

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Step 4

Use a plastic opening tool to lift and remove the battery.

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Step 5 Keyboard

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Remove the two Phillips #0 screws securing the keyboard to the laptop.
Turn the laptop over and lift the display to reveal the keyboard.

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Step 6

Insert the plastic spudger between the keyboard and the housing.
Start at the corner.

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Bei mir ging es am Besten mit einem dünnen Plektrum. Außerdem war es am oberen Rand so eng, dass ich überhaupt nicht dazwischen kam. An der oberen rechten Ecke seitlich ging es dann gut.

Johannes Lang - Aug 6, 2023 Reply

Step 7

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4 tabs are located at the top of the keyboard, which lock it in place.
Pry and twist the spudger along the top of the keyboard until each tab is released.

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Step 8

Pull back the keyboard from the top.
Be mindful of the fragile cables behind it.

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Step 9

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Flip up the connecting flap on each of the three ribbon cables.
The small cable on the last picture ist only there, if you have a backlit keyboard. If you want to replace a keyboard without backlight, there will be no cable on your original keyboard.

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This is all very helpful, thank you.

Just a query. When I took my keyboard off I appeared to have only two ribbons in the existing keyboard, the broadest one and the one of the back light (towards the middle) that didn’t work. The third right next to the broadest ribbon was absent altogether. Why? What was it for? Thanks

Tim Sunderland - May 12, 2020 Reply