broken keys

I was having major problems after duel booting my AAO 150 and decided it might be the ram I had installed. Being in a bad mood :twisted: I managed to pop the F1 and Pause break keys off the keyboard. Now I cant get them back on. I cant see anything broken on them so does anyone know how they fit back on. :?:

 

Those you can just push right back in with some moderate pressure.

However if they do not "snap" into place, the tiny plastic tabs on the key that connect to the metal tabs on the keyboard may have been stripped off. In that case you'll probably have to get a new keyboard (unless you are a wizard with super glue).

 

if you look very closely at the keys, one pair of the clips is a clip action whilst the other pair is a slide action which slides under the lifting white stuff of the keyboard..i dont know if im making sense..does it look like anything im explaining? :?

 

The top row of keys (ESC through Del) are clips/tabs on the top and bottom, unlike say, the Backspace key, which has the bar slide on the bottom and the tabs on top (which I have stripped off :/).

I've busted off my ESC and Del keys and have reattached them no problem, but the damn Backspace key would not cooperate lol.

 

so is it broken or it just wont re-attach?

 

My Backspace is half broken. The bar is fine but that tabs are gone.

It will "attach" to the keyboard but if I press on the bottom half of the key it pops off lol.

 

i have the same problem with my R key..one of the little bottom clips off my keyboard snapped so it come out every now and again. i want to check out exactly how it works so i can probably super duper glue it without damaging the boing boing effect of they keyboard :/