Acer Aspire 7540 Keyboard.
I have a problem with reconnecting the ribbon cable attached
to the keyboard to the mother board.
I currently have three separate pieces.
Motherboard with keyboard socket
Keyboard with attached ribbon cable
Small black plastic retainer. Loose, it came off in my hand
guv.
History.
The laptop had been out of use since Xmas 2013 when my wife
purchased an I Pad. With this Covid-19
lockdown I decided to bring it back into use but quickly discovered that the
CMOS RAM battery was flat. So it was during the operation to fit a new CMOS RAM
battery that I had to remove the keyboard.
Not knowing any better I assumed that the connector on the
end of the keyboard ribbon cable was a standard IDC header plug so used too
much force on the black retaining keyboard connector that it came out and is
now loose in my hand.
I have managed to fire up the Laptop without the keyboard
attached and using the touch pad everything appears to be OK. I do not really want to have to plug in an
external USB keyboard
Has anyone any ideas how I can re-attach the keyboard
without having to de-solder the connector from the motherboard and fit a new
connector.
Please see photos attached.
Many thanks
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Acer-Samuel
