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EliteBook 850 G3
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

There are a few physically stuck keys, most likely due to material spilled on keyboard at some point - a relative's laptop. I looked around online, and could not confirm with any degree of confidence that the individual keytops pop off on this model for cleaning underneath. Does anyone know? I would assume just compressed air and some gently applied isopropyl alcohol would suffice. Don't want to replace the entire keyboard if I don't have to. 

 

TIA!

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@wny2016 

 

The following Guide is the closest one you can get

 

               http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04887250.pdf

 

Working on business machines is much simpler than on consumers machine.

 

Regards.

BH
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Thanks. Nothing in there I could find about addressing the issue of disassembling keytops to fix stuck keys. There are plenty of generalized instructions online, which mostly consist of "pry off the keytops with something."

 

I agree that the business class machines are much easier to service. But why they had latch-removable back covers on some earlier EliteBooks and Z-Books - and went back to the ones that required prying off a zillion little covers, and having to unscrew all those screws, I'll never know...

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