Used keyboard I bought has keys that don't respond when pressed. Any hope in saving? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.sdf.org to c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml

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Its a Razer Blackwidow elite I got for cheap, the listing just said "sold as is" and had some pictures. Didn't mention anything about bad keys. Kicking myself now for trying to cheap out. My question is if there is anything I can do to repair it. If so is it worth doing? The switches are not hot swappable if that's important.

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[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Does it have on-board remapping? If so, maybe reset them with the Razer software, see if that makes a difference. Maybe somebody did something silly.

If not, then I'd disassemble it, connect to a pc and see what happens when you connect the pins of the switches of the keys that don't work. Do you get a response? Then it sounds like a bad switch. If not, then I suppose it's the pcb.

What keys don't work?

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