AZERTY to QWERTY Keyboard Conversion

Hi all
I have a French MacBook Pro 15" Core 2 Duo Model A1211 so the keyboard is AZERTY. I bought a QWERTY keyboard for it and all the connections fitted perfectly but upon boot up, the trackpad now doesn't work and nor does the keyboard. Is it possible to change keyboards in this way or am i stuck with an AZERTY? I've checked connections but all seems fine so I am worried it won't work and I have to go back to the daft AZERTY design.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Rich

the_unrepentant wrote:
I appreciate the fast response, but how do I do that without the keyboard or trackpad working?
Connect an external USB keyboard.
Its a UK keyboard I am changing it to...
Sorry, didn't notice that. Then that's what you'd select instead of US.

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Have you tried locating the keyboard that you're looking for on eBay? Z61 shares the keyboard with T6x and R6x units of the same screen size...that shouldn't be much of a problem.
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