Laptop keys are fragile and flimsy and if you use the laptop keys a lot, chances are, at least one will pop-off. If this happens, you can probably end up replacing the Sony VAIO VGN-FE Laptop Keyboard, Sometimes it’s cheaper to find a keyboard for your model laptop elsewhere than going through the manufacture. without costing the user additional expenses garnered by bringing the laptop to a service center. Replacing a laptop’s keyboard is a simple operation that needs minimal tools and skills that even those without enough knowledge and skills can do it. More often than not, problems such as misplaced keys, dirt under the keyboard, and more can be resolved by removing the keyboard, either just to clean it or repair it or by totally inserting a new laptop keyboard.

Step 1
Make sure that the laptop is switched off and that the battery is removed. It is important to check where the battery is located and how to remove this by looking it up in the model’s instruction manual.

Step 2
Turn the laptop over. On some models icons indicating which screws are attached to the keyboard are displayed. If not, you may have to “eyeball” it if you can’t find a breakdown for your model online.

Step 3
Remove those screws with a T-8 or Phillips screwdriver.

Step 4
Turn the laptop back over and open it up. Check and see if the keyboard is tucked under any plastic pieces. If so, find if those plastic pieces are screwed into anything, and unfasten them as well. If not, it probably uses clamps that can easily be removed.

Step 5
Remove the plastic pieces carefully with a toothpick or plastic pick if there is any in the way.

Step 6
Unscrew any screws at the top (if necessary) and remove the keyboard itself from top to bottom. You’ll notice that the keyboard is connected with a thin, but wide, data cable to the system board at the bottom.

Step 7
Take that same pick and lift the plastic connectors that hold in this data cable in place.

Step 8
Carefully remove the data cable. Now the whole keyboard should be free.

Replacing the keyboard.

Step 1
Take the new keyboard out of the plastic, and slip the data cable back in between the plastic connectors on the system board. Make sure it’s all the way in.

Step 2
Use the pick to push the plastic connectors back into place, and make sure it’s holding the data cable in.

Step 3
Slip the sony keyboard itself into place, from bottom to top. Make sure the screw holes or clamps line up at the top.

Step 4
Refasten the keyboard in place at the top.

Step 5
Place the Sony Laptop Keyboard down on the laptop and then fix the screw at the right place.

Step 6
Then replace the piece of the laptop that is having the Power button on it and press it gently with your hands.

Step 7
In the last fold the screen for ensuring that everything is connected perfectly. Then start you laptop and then test key on the keyboard.