ASUS M6BNe Keyboard "Bounce Back"

I be interested in hearing more about this. I have asked a lot around here and heard good things about "flex" of the Asus. I hope your situation is unique... (sorry) cause keyboard lfex is important to me. I get so darn picky about that stuff.

solid keyboard on my M6Ne (maybe you're pressing too hard )

You could try taking the keyboard out to see if it's bent/warped anywhere ( I bent it by accident once while trying to pry it out. flexed a whole bunch when typing. took it out, straightened it, and put it back. good as new)

ASUS manuals can be found here:
http://www.notebookreview.com/forums...?TOPIC_ID=3471

Maybe this will help:
http://www.legitreviews.com/reviews/whitebox2/
I personally tried with a credit card and it wrks just great.

Is this a laptop you built from baebone or you got it through a vendor with cpu. ram, hd already installed?
Can you look at the heat pipe over the cpu. Is there a "stamp" or something like that onany of the 4 screws that may void warrenty if removed?
thanks.

Yeah, something like a sticker to prevent access to the cpu.

use somthing flat (credit card) to push the 3 latches forward. they should retract into their little slot and stay in there until you lift the front edge of the keyboard out.

edit: nm..looks like you got it

resellers are supposed to stick on a tiny (1/3 inch by 1/4 inch) bright yellow warning sticker near the CPU assembly. mine came in a little pouch so I never put it on.

well, they can't say you voided warranty if you ever upgrade your CPU.

Just your luck

The warranty sticker is much smaller than that white one.

It's bright yellow with red text.

The assembly manual says it should be placed on the CPU clip of the heatpipe

Does that mean you CANNOT remove the heat pipe without breaking the seal/sticcker?
I am interested for I want to put AS5 and for this I will need to unscrew the 4 screws of the heatsink above the cpu. CPU upgrade is something I will be dealing with in the future.

the sticker is about the size of a childs pinky finger nail. it isn't that sticky and seems it can easily be removed and reapplied. i got one but didn't put it on.

I'm also having the 'bounce' problem. It was on the upper left of my keyboard. I took my M6ne out to the Asus fixit shop and they swapped in a new keyboard for me while I waited. This mostly fixed the upper left problem, but now there is a similar thing in the far right from the Enter key outwards.

For some reason I can't post attachments any more but I was looking at the pics of the underside of the keyboard here:

http://www.legitreviews.com/reviews/whitebox2/

From the sounds of it, my keys are going through the holes and hitting the metal plate that covers the rest of the innards, cos the noise isn't pressure sensitive. So I'm thinking about installing thin spacers of some sort underneath the keyboard. Anyone tried this or have any thoughts? Or can hazard a guess what those white things on the back of the keyboard are?

Thanks

Steve

My keyboard exhibits the same characteristics as yours. The left and right sides of my keyboard have a lot of flex. Pressing Tab, Caps Lock, or Shift makes the problem glaring.

Okay, problem solved. My keyboard is now consistently quiet in all areas. The problem (if you have it) is that the keyboard is secured in its central section by two screws. You can see where they are by flipping it on the back and noting the two screwholes marked K. This central pressure causes the end sections of the keyboard to lift slightly, so that everytime you press a key down, the weight of your key-stroke bangs the metal on the back of the keyboard against the metal which covers the innards of the laptop.

So I removed the two screws, pushed back the three catches which secure the keyboard and had a look at what could be done. All that was needed was something to be between the keyboard metal and the laptop metal, so I cut up a piece of thin foam of the sort is placed inbetween the screen and keyboard when you by a new notebook. I shaped it to not cover the space where the CPU is, or the memory, and put it in place before re-installing the keyboard. Ah, the bliss of silence.

I was a little bit worried about heat affecting the foam, so I copied a 20GB file to an external hard drive, put iTunes on constant play through the wi-fi card and did a loop of 3DMark01. This got the CPU temperature up to 75, but when I popped the keyboard again the bits where I had the foam were actually still cool to the touch. I may change to some other material, but so far so good.

I don't even know if this would be classed as a mod since the foam is simply held by pressure with no glue (so it is untraceably reversible), but it works great.

Since I write for a living, the keyboard would have started to bug me before long. Now it is just peachy and all is fine with the world again.



Steve