T430/440 Keyboard Swap Question -

[laserjpb]

Hi all, Any idea if one can swap the standard US shipped keyboard on a T430 or T440 for a Spanish language keyboard without any problems? I am guessing yes because logic says they would occupy the same space in the design, just with keys rearranged. Want to make sure connectors & all other hardware pieces would accommodate the change. Then am guessing would just have to change Region/Keyboard settings in Windows and get a language pack?

For reference on the T430 here are the two keyboards

(Spanish keyboard) http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-FOR-Lenovo- ... 234aa9ac0b

(US) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-New-IB ... 3cf4288ca1


Thank you so much for your help!

Laserjpb

[ajkula66]

Welcome to the forum!

You can swap the keyboards within the same model range, the layout itself doesn't matter.

However, you can't install a keyboard from T430 onto T440 or vice versa.

[laserjpb]

Thank you for the welcome - and thanks for the reply! If I do swap it then, I should be able to change necessary settings, etc on Windows 7 to correspond with the new keyboard even if the laptop shipped as a US English model?

[ajkula66]

You can add the Spanish keyboard layout but the OS will remain the way it is.

Control Panel>Region And Language>Keyboards and Languages

[laserjpb]

Thanks a lot!