Dell Inspiron 7568 Keyboard Replacement Guide

Remove the ten 7mm Phillips #1 screws on the bottom cover.

Remove the bottom cover.

Remove the four 3mm Phillips #1 screws holding the battery.

Unhinge the connector cable to the battery.

Remove the battery.

Unscrew & remove the two 3mm screws (using a ph1 screwdriver bit) and the cable bracket, above the motherboard

Doing this will allow one to access the LCD-motherboard connector cables.

Unscrew the 7mm screws that secure the left and right hinges (using a ph1 screwdriver bit).

Disconnect the antenna cable (under the left hinge)

Disconnect the LCD and Touchscreen display cables under the right hinge.

Carefully separate the screen from the bottom half of the device.

Begin by unclipping the cable connecting the fan and the motherboard.

Gently separate the motherboard cable from the clamp at the bottom of the fan.

Remove the cable.

Remove the two 3mm Phillips #1 screws that hold the fan into place.

Remove the fan.

Once the battery, screen, cooling fan, trackpad are out, the device would resemble the one in the first picture of this step.

Unscrew the three screws connecting the copper pipe to the motherboard.

Remove the copper pipe.

Unscrew the three 2mm wafer screws holding the motherboard.

Unplug the DC cable from the motherboard.

Unplug the connecting strip

Unplug the hard-drive cable

Remove the motherboard

Unscrew the three 3mm screws holding the hard drive (using a ph1 screwdriver bit)

Remove the hard drive

Unscrew the two 3mm screws holding the daughter board (using the ph1 screwdriver bit).

Set the daughterboard aside. NOTE: the daughter board doesn't have to be removed

Unscrew & remove the twenty-eight 2mm bracket screws holding the keyboard bracket (using a PH000 screwdriver bit)

Remove the keyboard bracket

Unscrew & remove the sixteen 2mm screws holding the keyboard (using a PH000 screwdriver bit)

Unplug the keyboard ("KB") and backlight ("BL") cable

Remove the keyboard.