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.
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.