hp32sii repair

Yes, don't :-)... You may think that;'s rather odd coming from me. but these machines are painful to work on, and not as well made as I would like. OK, if, like me, you're not easily put off, the first problem is getting inside. These things are heat-staked together of course. THe t parts of the case are staked together, the keyboard membrane layers and a metal backing plate (which also carries the display glass) are staked to the top case. Remvoe the batery cover and the button cells. You can see 4 stakes inside the battery compartment, Drill out the tops of those using a 3,5mm or so twist drill. THe other 4 stakes are at the front edge on the top (keyboard) side, under the metal trim. Soem peole 'rip' the machine apart at this point, my worry is that this is likely to damage the stakes holfing the keyboard together. Others (including me) carefully take off the metal keyboard bezel (don't crease it, it's impossible to flatten it again) and then drill the tops off those stakes too, With the case open, undo the 6 twist tabs on the PCB and thake the latter off. You cna now see the back of the keybaord with numerous heat stakes. Often, some of these are broken, which may be the fault you are looking for. You might be able ot melt soem more plastic rod onto the remains of the old stakes with a soldering iron to improve matters. I do not recoemnd cutting off these stakes and taking the keyboard apart. You will not get it stay together again. I took apart a scrap one to see how it was made and to trace out the keyboard matrix (this was a 42S IIRC, with a very dead CPU), that's the only time I'd contemlate doing this. -tony