ASUS eeePC 701 problem and solution

[Winston]

My eeePC was very sick.

On boot, it would spray the screen with random
characters. If I did get a desktop, I found
that I couldn't type several characters, like
v and t.

A USB keyboard worked perfectly with it, though.

I Googled 'eeepc 701 teardown' and discovered
how to remove the keyboard.

I carefully released the ZIF connector for
the keyboard and cleaned the black contacts
on the flat cable with a pencil eraser.
After wiping off the resulting grunge with
a cloth towel, I installed the keyboard and
now my eeePC works once again.

--Winston

 

[N_Cook]

Winston <Winston@BigBrother.net> wrote in message
news:jakp3g06d3@news6.newsguy.com...

My eeePC was very sick.

On boot, it would spray the screen with random
characters. If I did get a desktop, I found
that I couldn't type several characters, like
v and t.

A USB keyboard worked perfectly with it, though.

I Googled 'eeepc 701 teardown' and discovered
how to remove the keyboard.

I carefully released the ZIF connector for
the keyboard and cleaned the black contacts
on the flat cable with a pencil eraser.
After wiping off the resulting grunge with
a cloth towel, I installed the keyboard and
now my eeePC works once again.

--Winston

For us old-worlders , teardown = dismantle ?

 

[Winston]

N_Cook wrote:

Winston<Winston@BigBrother.net> wrote in message
news:jakp3g06d3@news6.newsguy.com...
My eeePC was very sick.

On boot, it would spray the screen with random
characters. If I did get a desktop, I found
that I couldn't type several characters, like
v and t.

A USB keyboard worked perfectly with it, though.

I Googled 'eeepc 701 teardown' and discovered
how to remove the keyboard.

I carefully released the ZIF connector for
the keyboard and cleaned the black contacts
on the flat cable with a pencil eraser.
After wiping off the resulting grunge with
a cloth towel, I installed the keyboard and
now my eeePC works once again.

--Winston


For us old-worlders , teardown = dismantle ?

Correcto. With lots of good quality, annotated
photos to make reassembly easy.

http://tinyurl.com/72b6ueq or...
<http://www.r3uk.com/index.php/tech-tips/34-disassembly-guides/78-asus-eeepc-model-4g-disassembly>

--Winston