Mouse pad keys

[bebbles12]

My wife has a dell inspirion M5030 and my son has a toshiba satellite M305D S4830 both which I took apart to clean the fan and when I put them back together as carefully as I could, the mouse pad keys both have failed. Can't figure out what I keep doing wrong?
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[BikerEcho]

That's odd. Does the track pad work?

 

[bebbles12]

Thanks for the reply, the track pad was working but I think I screwed things up when I kept taking it apart so I ordered a new one off Ebay. I'll keep you posted.
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[jazzo58]

Does the keypad have a ribbon (instead of plug)that clicks in to make contact ?I have had this come loose and not seated right in the past.took a couple of goes to fix

 

[bebbles12]

It does have a ribbon and I took it to a local computer repair store and discovered I was putting the ribbon back in crooked.

 

[IAntDemo]

unclipped? lol funny

 

[~mr mixx~]

It does have a ribbon and I took it to a local computer repair store and discovered I was putting the ribbon back in crooked.

Those ribbons can be tricky. You have to seat them just right or they can give you problems. It would be a lot easier if they just had wires to plug back in.