The key is not responding at all, this is the second time in two years I needed to find a software. Shipping it from US to Malaysia will cost a bit. I can only suppose that it flew off when I pulled the key off and that it had been the cause of the problem.I had nothing to lose by taking this extreme action because the thing was not working anyway and I had failed to fix it by 'normal' means.ĭenisThanks all for the replies. I then found a twisted strip of glue, no wider than a cotton thread, lying on the keyboard nearby. It started working again straight away. Everything looked alright in comparison to the photo so I pushed it back on and heard a click as it re-engaged, I got a fingernail inside the edge of the key and pulled it off, I managed to find a photo of the mechanism by searching Amazon for Arteck keyboard, I tried brushing & blowing underneath it without success, Instead, you need to disassemble the keyboard (carefully) and clean those parts.Īlternative: Buy the Logitech 'Curve' keyboard. What does reach that area won't be blown away by an air duster, nor sucked out with a vacuum cleaner. Very little dust, dirt, or other crud that you drop onto the keyboard as you stuff lunch into your pie-hole can get past the aforesaid barriers and into the contact area. The underside of each dome has a black (carbon composite?) button that presses onto copper contact traces on a circuit board. The key action is a plunger (under each key) pressing into a hollow shaft.

But any crap you can blow out is crap in a location that will have no effect on the operation of keys.

forced air dusting might remove some loose disgusting crap. But it can remap keys without much trouble.Īs for cleaning keyboards.

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