Losing a keyboard's number pad has never been an issue for me, but I can't say the same thing about losing my beloved arrow keys, which is the main thing that gets the chop when you move down to a 60% keyboard like HyperX's limited edition Ducky One 2 Mini collaboration. I'm no engineer, but I feel like I should reinforce the mini usb port with some glue or something.How small is too small for a gaming keyboard? Personally, I think my lower limit stops at tenkeyless jobs like the Logitech G915 TKL or my current best gaming keyboard champion, the Fnatic miniStreak. I also used a continuity tester after to ensure that I hadn't accidentally bridged two of the usb lines that weren't meant to be bridged.
Some of the other 5 connections looked weak or broken, so I resoldered those as well.īy "resoldered", I just mean I pressed the tip of my hot soldering iron up against the existing solder point, added a little bit of fresh solder to help it melt, and then just let the melted solder reflow around the connections before releasing the soldering iron. From there I pushed the mini usb port back into place, and then resoldered the two ground/anchor points that had come loose. Once those screws were removed, I flipped the keyboard upside down and the pcb with all the switches on it just flopped out. It looked there was a hole for a forth screw between "Enter" and "\", but there was no screw in it. I removed all the keys (they just pull off of the underlying cherry switches), and found 3 more screws: one between the "F3" and "4" keys, one between the "Pause/Break" and "Page Up" keys, and one between the "Caps Lock" and "A" keys.
To fix this properly, today I opened it back up. This was actually adequate to plug back in my keyboard in and play some games! However, I was lucky that the power and data lines were still connected, and it is more likely that if you get into this situation that it won't work at all, or only intermittently. With this piece removed, I could push the mini usb port back down into place. I was able to temporarily fix this problem by removing three screws from the bottom of the board (two are obvious, and the third was under a sticker, so don't do this unless you are cool voiding your warranty), which allowed me to remove a piece of plastic from the top of the keyboard that spanned across the length (under the F keys and down around the arrow keys). I guess this put too much strain on the mini usb jack, because while setting up at a friend's place for some games last night, I noticed the usb cable had come out, and when I tried to plug it back in, the jack bent up and away from the opening in the keyboard, making it impossible to use. I normally carry this keyboard in my backpack with my laptop, and I usually leave the mini-usb cable plugged into the keyboard while carrying it around. My Ducky 1087's mini usb jack came loose last night. Tl dr: I fixed the broken mini-usb issue by resoldering it back in place.
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