The W and R keys don’t work on my ASUS vivobook flip 14 and I would like to fix them so I can give the laptop to a friend. The reason they stopped working is because I spilled water on them a long time ago. Other than that, the laptop works perfectly fine.
I saw some teardown videos for an entire keyboard replacement for it, but it looks wayyyyyy too complicated and easy to mess up. I have expierence replacing stuff like batteries and SSDs in computers.
Is there a way to replace/fix those two keys without taking out the entire motherboard?
Unfortunately not. The water messed up the keyboard membrane layer. There’s no fixing individual keys on water damaged laptop keyboards.
I once damaged a Microsoft desktop keyboard with water, and repaired the corroded membrane with silver paint designed to conduct electricity. I’m not sure if laptop membranes can be pulled apart like that.
Yeah, not usually. OP was hoping to avoid a full laptop disassembly anyways, so even if somehow that trick could work (very unlikely for a laptop keyboard), at that point they might as well go ahead and replace the keyboard anyways.
Side note, I could use some of that conductive paint to fix a cracked carbon trace on my game controller, but it’s no big deal really, it’s just for a mode button I never use anyways.
Dang, that’s a bummer.