Keyboard Replacement - Samsung Series 9 Notebook NP940X3M-K01US

[AlohaTech]

Is it possible to replace the keyboard on a Samsung Series 9 Notebook NP940X3M-K01US?

I have not had much luck finding any parts or a guide. I have some close matches but nothing specific to this model and it looks like it is the entire top bezel that would need to be replaced. Some of the matches I find do not look like the correct keyboard or top bezel.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Porthos]

it looks like it is the entire top bezel that would need to be replaced. Some of the matches I find do not look like the correct keyboard or top bezel.

Yes, the whole bezel is the way to go.
https://www.ebay.com/c/13026177937 ?? Is the client willing to spend what it will cost?

 

[Porthos]

BA98-01157B-RB - Samsung - Palmrest with Keyboard Touchpad | Impact Computers

BA98-01157B-RB, Palmrest, with, Keyboard, Touchpad | Refurbished

www.impactcomputers.com

 

[britechguy]

If it's for someone else, then it definitely makes sense to go with the whole bezel with keyboard and mousepad.

If it's for yourself, and you have time on your hands, you can do just a keyboard if you can source the correct keyboard. I just did this, yesterday, for my HP laptop which has (or had) one of the "welded in by plastic posts being melted" keyboards with a metal sheet structural stiffener mounted similarly on top of it.

I don't think anyone could replace a top unit/bezel that's set up this way on a cost effective basis for a client - it just takes too much time, particularly putting it all back together and needing to use glue in place of the formerly melted plastic posts to hold everything back in place.

 

[sapphirescales]

I don't think anyone could replace a top unit/bezel that's set up this way on a cost effective basis for a client - it just takes too much time, particularly putting it all back together and needing to use glue in place of the formerly melted plastic posts to hold everything back in place.

I've done plenty of these. You can't always find the entire upper palm rest. There's no repair I hate more than replacing one of these crap keyboards. Was the rim around the keyboard really so unsightly that they had to do this? Really? I hate the way they're designing computers now.

 

[britechguy]

@sapphirescales,

Your obsession with everything being "crap" is getting really, really, really old.

Laptop keyboards, all of them, have been notorious since day one of having lifespans that are, on average, significantly less that those enjoyed by any desktop keyboard. They did used to be easier to replace, however.

It will never be cost effective, if you're billing for all your time, to do the tedious work required to get one of the "top unit" type keyboards reinstalled in a top unit correctly, which is all I was saying. They were never meant to be serviced in that way, but the whole top unit replaced. It's not that it can't be done, as I've done it, but it's something that would take a minimum of two hours just for the keyboard itself, and add in the tear down time. It just doesn't make financial sense for any owner to do that.

If it's a laptop that's designed with a removable keyboard, as was common (even in less expensive laptops) for many years that's an entirely different issue. But that's not the style that was asked about.

 

[sapphirescales]

that's not the style that was asked about.

That's not a style that even exists anymore thanks to new computers being made like crap. I'm not obsessed with crap, but I'm surrounded by it on a daily basis. There's no logical reason for having a non-removable keyboard other than to complicate repair. I mean, it looks a little cleaner, but most people don't give a crap.

 

[AlohaTech]

Thanks @Porthos

Not sure why I never searched eBay. Impact Computers looks like the way to go.