I would be interested to know if anyone else has tried this. I have the same problem with some keys not working with a normal touch.

My eeePC 900 is usually on for about 15 hours a day, so gets quite warm. Has anyone noticed a significant increase in temperature with the masking tape mod?

This is great. I've had some real issues with my 701 .... every time I type something I find myself going back through the text plugging in the missing letters. The space bar was only responsive right in the centre and the keys to the far left and right had to be hit top down and in the centre of the key.

It was driving me nuts!!!

So I googled and came across this thread. I wasn't happy putting tape across the whole of the keyboard because I imagine that some heat dissipates through that route ... so I put an inch of duck tape down the side of the left and the right (three layers deep). It's made a massive improvement. The space bar is still a bit **** if you hit it at the last centimetre of either end but I'm willing to live with that for the moment.

Hope this helps anyone with similar concerns.

screenshot:

i don't have duck tape, so im using post it notes as mukherjs mentioned. it works quite well. the keys seems to be responsive okay now (look at the below re-typed text i was testing). Most wrongly typed text was because of the size of the keys and my hand's quite big for 'em.








test text (after applied):

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as you may have experienced, keyboard seems to be one of the most critical point in the eeepc: when you try to write long texts, sometime some key do not respond as tey should. As a result you may be contioyusly obliged to fix missing letters, which will drive you terribly nervous after some time

remove your keyboard by pressing towards the scree the 3 thin meal stables that you can seee right over the F1, F6, and F12 keys. You should then be able to remove the keyboad by pcvking it up from its upper side an letting it shifting towards the sccreen

yu should have a roll of masking tabpe now, that kid of adhesive tape used in house paiting, just cover the keyboad back side with 2 or 3 strips.

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Im trying with this method and don't work for me. Im using dock tape. First I use 4 big strips, now, I have 2 small strips right now but the letter "c" and "d" need to be hard press.

Any suggestions will be appreciated!

thx for the trick ilcarolader!
btw i used another way:
i've taken an alluminum paper (that one for kitchen)
i fold it three times and cutted following the shape of the keyboard (so a rectangle) and simply put it under the keyboard
it needed only cutting where there's the connector (beetween the space bar and alt button).
i'll try to take a picture soon!

I suggest you keep the WSDE - FGHTV - KILOJ areas free, thats where the CPU - North bridge and south bridge are, they get quite hot, and paper will only block the ventilation as many people have said.
Ill give it a go though.

Thank you for posting this helpful information. Things seem a lot better now.

I did want to point something out though....
I ended up using post it notes and I will tell you why. I am in America but I imagine most of our masking tape and duct tape is made in China so this information could be helpful to those of you in other countries as well.

I can't speak for duct tape, but in the past I have had unfortunate messes because of masking tape. I have had the adhesive glue part of the masking tape melt onto other surfaces when in the sun or warm weather making the sticky part of the tape very hard to remove!

Not that we would be removing the masking tape from under our keyboards, but what if the adhesive melts under there (the keyboard) and creates a mess by getting into the computer itself.

Maybe I am just a worrier, but for now I would stick with post it notes or foil. I would hate to see someone's Eee ruined because of poor-quality tape. For those of you who have English as a second language, I hope my post makes sense. Again, many thanks for the idea and the nice photo.

Last edited by wavesinmc (2008-09-09 8:22:08 pm)

there is another mod that would not require you to put stickers and it works, its in the link at the bottom of my signature

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Great trick, thanks a lot, very helpful on my 900a!

I cut out a double-H-shaped piece from a (very) thin white foam-like foil used for wrapping small (electronic) devices and put it in without glue. Works great and has a positive effect on typing acoustics, too.

Will have an eye on temperature, though.

Regards,
   Heinz

Thanks for the advice ilcarolader. How did you realize that?

I would let it dry even more. I've had this happen to regular keyboards and sometimes, three days is not enough. Take the actually keyboard off (as directed in this post? or somewhere) very carefully. Use qtips to blot up any moisture you see hanging around. Then leave the whole thing apart for even more time. It may come back. But using it (electric going through it while damp) won't help. I had a normal keyboard take a very long time to dry out...it just needed more time than I was giving it. Glad it's just water ;0 you may be in luck! Best wishes.