Asus Laptop Keyboard Ribbon Cable

The plastic clamp intended to clamp down the keyboard ribbon cable on my 2007 mbp apparently became brittle with age and crumbled.

Asus laptop keyboard ribbon cable.

The term ribbon cable refers to any cable with wires that run parallel on a flat plane down the length of the cable. The tape was placed across the flat ribbon cable just off the blue stiffening flap on the ribbon cable. Ribbon cables are typically used to connect internal components in laptops to save space. Sony vgn aw220j keyboard co.

I then inserted into the connector a piece of stiff paper cut to the same width of the connector above the ribbon cable. I taped the new keyboard cable in the proper location. So there is nothing left to secure the ribbon with. Easy 5 minute fix for broken ribbon cable connector.

These laptop ribbon cables are usually hardwired into one component and connect to the motherboard or other components with a small. I ve fixed one the skinny one on the right when you re facing the screen but the one leading to the touchpad skinny white one on the left possibly broke. I opened my laptop to clean dust out and while prying the keyboard open two of the three ribbon cables came undone on their own. I can not secure the keyboard cable into the connector after doing a battery replacement on my laptop.

How to make a simple plastic insert to fix damaged ribbon cable connectors. In this video we talk about what to do when the clamping bar is missing for a ribbon cable connector on a laptop motherb. While removing the old keyboard i damaged the retaing flap.