On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 02:14:19PM -0500, Tim Tisdall via talk wrote: > I removed the battery again and took a closer look at the keyboard. > It's definitely melted plastic rivets holding it to a plastic framing > that everything else screws into. I really don't want to start > cutting into plastic. (here's a video of someone cutting and > glue-gunning in a replacement: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnwW1mQ6aI) It seems like a few > places sell the casing with the keyboard > (https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-keyboard-for-Asus-ZenBook-UX305CA-UX305FA-Dark-Grey-Palmrest-Topcase/152878737232) > so I'll look around and see who best to order that from. There's so > many models and sub-models that I need to be very careful with which > one I order. > > I tried calling ASUS to see how much they'd charge for a repair and > they want a whopping $540 to just replace the keyboard.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Asus+Zenbook+UX303L+Keyboard+Replacement/53551 shows how to replace the keyboard on the 303 which might be similar to the 305. I must admit that looks like a terrible job. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
