Toshiba L855-S5113: Backlit Keyboard Upgrade

Greetings! I have a Toshiba Satellite L855-S5113 and would like to upgrade the keyboard to a backlit keyboard. Does anyone here have experience performing this modification? I found a backlit keyboard for my laptop however, there is an additional 4 contact ribbon cable attached to the keyboard. I removed my keyboard and I could not find an additional 4 contact connection point on the mobo. I discovered the touchpad ribbon cable has 4 contacts. I don't use the touchpad or buttons since I use a wireless mouse so I am thinking I can disconnect the touchpad ribbon cable and connect the new backlit keyboard ribbon cable to the touchpad connection point on the mobo. If this works and I have power for illumination, will I need to change BIOS or update a driver or both? Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance for your help, Travisimo

i have found the way to light my keyboard.
its a hardware mod(kind of). the backlit keyboard has 2 ffc cable, one, the standard with a lot of pins, to transmit data to the motherboard, and another one narrower (just 4 pins) for ilumination
backlit doesnt work if i connect it to its port,but there are three more port of this kind so i test them.
there are two verey close at the left side and another near the standard keyboard connector.
the 2 from the left side, give little voltage and the bright of the backlit is very poor. the other one near the keyboard standard connector (i can read kskaa intel near it) give enough voltage,and oh yeah! it light my keyboard, but its too far for connect the two cables of the keyboard.
also, i have to disconnect a 4 pin ffc cable to do this, but the laptop worked just fine while i was testing this.
so maybe i will buy a 4pin ffc cable to connect to this port the backlit cable.
btw it would be awesome if you guys could help me to activate the voltage in the backlit port.
i have the feeling that it works, due to if i connect to the backlit port the backlit cable, in control panel\device manager\ appear a unlnow device which windows cant find the correct driver.
i have another question.
im using windows 7 ultimate (genuine, a present from mr Steve Ballmer ;P ) 32 bits... could be possible that in 64 bits the backlit would be correctly managed?
thanks in advance

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