From the course: CompTIA A+ (220-901) Cert Prep: 6 Laptops and Mobile Devices
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Troubleshooting laptops - A+ Tutorial
From the course: CompTIA A+ (220-901) Cert Prep: 6 Laptops and Mobile Devices
Troubleshooting laptops
- In episode after episode, we cover all kinds of CompTIA problems that you can run into and then how to fix them. However, within the A competencies, there's a few that kind of defy a particular place to go, so I wanna put them all together real quick so I have complete coverage of all the different problems you could run into with a laptop. One in particular, is sticky keys. And if there's one place where we get sticky keys, it's on our laptops. Now, just like with any kind of keyboard, we can use air (swooshing) to clean them, but one challenge we run into with sticky keys is that keyboard buttons, themselves, are usually spring-loaded. They have a little spider-like scissors spring inside and as a result of that, when these things break and drop down, they're really not replaceable. So what you end up having to do is replace the entire keyboard. In fact, replacing keyboards is one the more common things we do on a laptop. Now, if you think about it, it seems a little bit scary to…