Dell Inspiron N5030 Keyboard Replacement

Geschrieben von: Gunnar Salazar

Kommentare: 11

Dell Inspiron N5030 Keyboard Replacement

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Moderate

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10 Minuten

Einleitung

If your keyboard on your Dell Inspiron N5030 is not working, and you have tried all of the steps on the troubleshooting guide, use this guide to replace your keyboard.

Werkzeuge

Schritt 1

Turn the computer over on its back so the battery compartment faces towards you.
Place your fingers on the small buttons with arrows pointing outwards.
Push and slide the buttons outward to unlock the battery compartment.

Schritt 2

Grab the battery and pull it towards yourself.
Remove the battery.

Schritt 3

Use a Phillips #0 screwdriver to unscrew the sixteen 0.6 mm screws on the back panel.

There are two shorter screws which connect the harddrive; in this photo they are in the upper corner on the right, but just left from the longer two on the edge. The Dell Service Manual for this type marks them clearly with blue arrows.

Micheon - 23/01/20

To replace just the keyboard, you don’t need to remove all these screws. As Micheon already mentioned, the two screws for the hard drive don’t need to be removed but in fact, almost all the screws can remain. The only two that need to be removed are right around the Inspiron N5030 label: 1) just left of the label and 2) the one closest to the battery release slider.

Sean Rivera - 08/05/20

I think you mean 6mm screws, not .6mm.

Greg Worrel - 25/03/21

Schritt 4

Flip over the laptop and open it so that the screen faces you.

Schritt 5

Use the plastic opening tool and your fingers to pry off the top panel.
Pry the panel off starting at any one of the corners and then continue around the edges of the computer.

Schritt 6

Be careful when lifting off the keyboard panel. There are multiple delicate cables connecting the panel to the motherboard.
Pull up on the blue plastic tab connected by the white strip to unhook the keyboard panel from the motherboard.

There is a ribbon cable, another cable with blue tab and a connector that all has to be unhooked before the keyboard comes off.

Nancy - 09/06/15

You are not right!!!

YY W - 14/12/16

Step 4 A,

Remove keyboard before removing cover, small flat blade along top edge of keyboard will work.

then you will have access to ribbon cable (flip latch to release) for keyboard and also cable for touchpad (lift edge to to release)

also allows for reassembly

Todd - 26/03/16

Yes that's 100% right if not you can tear all wires. Ifixit please update in main instructions....

YY W - 14/12/16

This worked just enough for me to remove the harddrive from a spare-parts machine, but with very little working space.

Todd is right about another step which is not described here, which Nancy already pointed to.

The here omitted first step of keyboard removal, which allows easier cable disconnections, is clearly described in the Dell Service Manual for this type of laptop > https://www.dell.com/support/home/nl/nl/...

Micheon - 23/01/20

You don’t need to remove the entire top panel to just replace the keyboard. See my comment on step 3 to know which screws are truly necessary. Then instead of step 5 do what Todd says in his comment here which will give easier access to the ribbon cables, access to the RAM, Wifi adapter and access to remove the optical drive. Steps 5 - 9 in these instructions are only necessary if you want to replace the hard drive or clean the CPU fan.

Sean Rivera - 08/05/20