Toshiba Tecra TE2100. How to disassemble notebook yourself.
Beware! This little notebook can cause you big problems. I think that I disassembled and assembled back more then a hundred of these laptops. Most of the time our customers complained about the same faults. Laptop locks up, freezes up or will not boot at all. We also received a lot of complaints about CMOS (RTC) battery errors on startup.
Why Toshiba Tecra TE2100 laptop locks up or will not boot at all?
Toshiba Tecra TE2100 notebook disassembly guide will help you to open the laptop case and reseat or replace the system board and the power board, to repair above mentioned laptop faults. Hopefully it will help you to fix the problem.
July 31st, 2011 at 1:45 pm
hello
how can bypass bois password in toshiba tecra m10 and how can find diagram of that ???? plz send me to my email
May 24th, 2011 at 11:12 am
ok so when i turn my toshiba te2100 on it beeps at me after 1 or 2 seconds and the screen stays completly and absolutely dark… HELP PLS!!!!
August 30th, 2010 at 3:54 am
I was given a TE2100 and the inbuilt wireless card doesn’t appear to be working. I can’t see anything obvious in the bios and have updated the bios from 1.40 to 1.60. the wireless switch is on but the LED doesn’t show anything.
I am using Ubuntu 10.04. Before I pull it apart.
Do you think this could be a driver/ubuntu issue ?
Or is this more likely to be a loose connection/faulty part.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Display issue in Win XP Pro. When TE2100 LCD display restarts after entering power saving mode ie BIOS setting, sometimes only the upper 1/2 of the LCD is visable, the bottom 1/2 appears streched or with vertical stripes. Plugging an external monitor in shows display is fine. I can get the LCD to display correctly by accessing screen settings and changing screen resolution down to 800*600, accepting and changing it back to 1024*768 and accepting. Then the LCD displays correctly, so its not likely to be a hardware issue. I have tried updating drivers etc, no effect. Any suggestions gratefully accepted.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
@dunxy Says:
>>July 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS GUIDE!
>>
>>I pulel dmy hair out for ages over a dodgy inbuilt mouse spot on this old te2000 i have, it had a mind of its own and woudl pull to one side, i coudl never stop it with uninstall of drivers etc. This guide enabled me to pull the unit apart and splice the ribbon connector between kb and mobo (the small one on the l/h side is the mouse) disabling the on board piece of tripe for ever!
Now this unit is usable again!
For those with a similar issue and they cannot get the accupoint drivers, just disable the internal mouse in device manager (Win XP) and plug the external one in. Saves having to hack the accupoint joystick hardware.
August 3rd, 2010 at 6:20 pm
hav this vertical blurry lines on te2100.hooked other remote screen same happens ther..can someone pls help with advise..got fat fingers work on cars,,much appreciated
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Hi
RE: tectra 2100
I am looking at this website on
taking apart a toshiba tecra 2100
the speakers DO NOT POP right off..as pictured
I cannot get them off at all…with the risk of cracking the plastic-also there seems to be square buttons on the back of each speaker which you do not mention in your website-but they are not helping me remove these speakers
I cannot get this laptop apart
I already cracked the plastic power button cover/protective shield on front
the pictures make it look like
Voila-the speakers pop right off
Not on this tecra they dont..
I really need to get this screen off to change the lcd ribbon cable badly
any ideas or advice?
I am at MY wits end with this computer
and NO
these laptops do not come apart as easily as it looks on your website
seems to be held together with
cement-or
auto bondo i mean it!
this is i factory condition
so-either toshiba GLUES all the plastic the parts On
OR I dont know what-there’s a little gold looking screw thing UNDER the speaker-not a regular screw-maybe like a star shape..i cannot remove..
anyway-the speakers will Not come off unless I break them off
I already CUT/spliced the LCD ribbon wire trying to
“easily” remove the plastic piece that’s over the keyboard..I had to PRY it off
I maybe should invest in a sledge hammer with this laptop
anyway thanks
if you know another way to REMOVE this screen id appreciate it alot
Dee
April 14th, 2009 at 7:31 am
I have the problem of with my laptop.
my laptop [of] dead te2100 toshiba, [there] no appearance
step do step what having to I go through / [do/conduct] and I can ask the laptop circuit as [which/such]
February 16th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
do u have a tutorial on how to disassemble a TE2300 laptop?
January 21st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Glad it pinpointed the problem for you Nestor. If it were not for this forum, I would have never had the guts to tear into and fix my laptop. I would feel guilty I didn’t try to help.
If anyone finds a good cheap source for the vga transboard, please post it.
Thanks.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:24 am
My problem was the VGA card, which I already replaced. Thanks so much for your help. Greatly appreciated.
December 10th, 2008 at 5:14 am
One correction, when I said VGA, I meant LCD display.
December 9th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I followed your instructions to disassemble my laptop. Excellent work you did, THANK YOU.
I have some questions though, I reseated the video card, but there was no change on the video, it still flickers and shows lines and squares all over the screen as it flickers. And it does this from the moment the laptop is turned on. Do you think this is caused by the video card? or could it be the yellow connector that connects to the vga? I noticed that this connector showed some stains on the side attached to the little circuit where the vga connects. Could the connector be damaged due to overheating?
Thanks so much in advance
Nestor.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:02 am
Thank you so much for your quick reply!
December 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
Nestor: You can replace the VGA. They call it a TransBoard. You can see it @ step 19 & 20 of the disassemble guide. Be very gentle removing the ribbons as the sockets tend to come unsoldered, then you have 25 little contacts to worry about. Right now I have one working board and two I’m attempting to micro solder.
The part numbers I have found for the VGA are:
V000011110, V000010930, V000010890, V000010880.
I replaced the inverter board and the ccfl lamp in the display before I figured out it was the VGA card.
I’ve bought enough parts off ebay to build a backup laptop if I can get another VGA to work.
Good luck!
December 1st, 2008 at 9:43 am
Can anyone tell me if a Toshiba Tecra Te2100 comes with integrated video? I want to know if I can replace the videocard.
Thank you.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Okay first of all, how do you remove both the hard drive and the cd/dvd drive? It does not mention how you do this in step three…do I have to go under the keyboard?
Also, is this laptop wifi compatible as is?
Finally, does this model have a cardbus slot I can use to put dual usb/firewire ports on the thing?
October 4th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Cheers!
It hasn’t fixed my issue (where moving the laptop/taping it around where the battery lives causes it to power off)
but its increased my understanding and respect for my laptop and its creators ( poor barsteds, i thought the XBOX was bad but the laptop is much tighter)
July 26th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS GUIDE!
I pulel dmy hair out for ages over a dodgy inbuilt mouse spot on this old te2000 i have, it had a mind of its own and woudl pull to one side, i coudl never stop it with uninstall of drivers etc. This guide enabled me to pull the unit apart and splice the ribbon connector between kb and mobo (the small one on the l/h side is the mouse) disabling the on board piece of tripe for ever!
Now this unit is usable again!
I tried myself to get to this mouse in the past withotu luck, but this guide made it possible.
AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
not in vga but the socket of the vga card mostly not plug better to mainboard
March 25th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
te2100 mostly error in vga card.
vga chipset is not good.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Ron,
This problem is not related to the inverter board, that’s for sure.
Most likely you have faulty LCD screen.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Hi,
I have a Toshiba TE2100 laptop, with some display issue.
I have plugged in a extrnal monitor and display is fine, but on the laptop screen is only display half the screen, does this mean that the screen is faulty, and the VGA card is working fine, or could this be an inverter problem??
Your help is much appreciated.
Cheers,
November 18th, 2007 at 4:53 pm
TE2300 and Satellite M20 have almost same construction as TE2100. Therefore TE2100 guide can be used for TE2300 and Satellite M20.
Thank you for nice guide.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:33 am
There is a screw covered over by a peice of plastic. It does not show that on the instruction picture.
November 7th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
How the heck do you remove the CD-DVD drive? I can’t find anything that is holding it.
August 20th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Hiya i’ve just taken apart my te2000 and theres a thin cable that comes from the monitor and goes down just in front of the fan and i can’t seem to find where it goes, so there’s no screen!! it’s the same type of cable that snaps from the wireless card and it should just pop back onto the board somewhere but i can’t see where at all. It was taken apart because of the usual bad rtc problem that seems to be so common with these bastard machines and i don’t know if i’ve managed to fix it cos the screen won’t work!! Help!!
Dave
June 17th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I have impressed so many co-workers when I take apart and reassemble my laptop! Thanks for the guide and pictures.
I have experienced all of the above with my 2100. Finally I took it to a geek and for $100 he found that when you turn the wireless switch off on my machine, it shorts out and instantly cuts off the laptop! This happened over a couple of months. I use a sprint data card at home and turned off the wireless. I then got the rtc error, time and date re-entry, you name it, it happened. Now my wireless is switched on but does not work. I swapped mother board, power board and now have enough parts make another laptop, just lacking a display. So try the wireless switch on the left side front, next to the volume control, push buttons, things you don’t normally use before you take it in for service. It’s a great little machine when it works. I just wished the usb’s were 2.0!
Good luck,
Harry
June 7th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I had the latest drivers availble that I could find and that where available from the auto check from Toshiba!
I could not find anything newer from nVidia!
Do you know where I may find something different?
I think it is a hardware issues since it worked fine until the problem started then like I stated I can only get 4 mg for the display setting and when I check the control panel it says that the video card is working fine!
I can’t get any of the external video options to work so do you think I should try the Video Board if I can get one at a resonable price or do you think it is something else???
Thanks again,
Dave
June 7th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Hi Dave, do you have the latest video driver & utility that goes for you laptop? You can go to your display properties\settings\advanced and take a look because it sounds like a driver issue, urs Yago.