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‎02-12-2019 12:48 PM

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Product: Pavilion 15-p150ca
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello and Good day! A bit of a noobie here so bare with me.

 

I have an HP Pavilion 15-p150ca that has been with me for the better part of my highschool life. I wanted to give some life to it, I upgraded the memory to 16gb, replaced my broken wifi card, and upgraded to an SSD. I was lookin in replacing the keyboard and couldn't help but notice sellers offering a "Back-lit" upgrade keyboard for a plethera of laptops. One of which is mine. I was wondering (before I buy the keyboard) if my model is campatible for such an upgrade? 

 

Thank you and I hope for a fast reply!

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‎02-12-2019 01:08 PM - edited ‎02-12-2019 01:09 PM

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Here is the Service Manual:

 

Manual

 

The manual does say the f5 key turns the backlight on and off on selected models. 

 

See p. 15. However, two things. 1. The keyboard is not sold as a separate part but only by HP as part of the whole top cover. 2. None of the listed top cover/keyboard parts says it is backlit. You sometimes see eBay sellers offering a backlit keyboard which they got from the factory that assembles top covers with keyboard. So there are no instructions on how to get the old keyboard out of the top cover or put the backlit one in. And the few reports we have had from people who try it show it is not an easy thing to do. Involves melting plastic rivets and such. 

 

So I think it could be done but its a pretty advanced technician task. 

 

Post back with any other questions and please accept as solution if its the info you needed. 

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‎02-12-2019 02:12 PM

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Alrighty! Thanks for the detailed answer!

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‎02-26-2019 03:55 AM

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Ok so I installed the mod which allowed a backlit keyboard on my non-backlit laptop. I ended up wiring the backlit to my usb 2.0 power, and it works fine  Except when I put the computer to sleep, it sleeps, but the keyboard light stays on. I was wondering if there is anything (whether software or hardware wise) if I could disable the usb ports during sleep? I've tried the device manager method, enabled selective suspend with no results. Windows detects them as "self powered usb hubs." Going into the bios has no option to disable either since the bios is fairly watered down. 

 

Some help would be appreciated! Thank you!

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