Toshiba Satellite A20 and A25. How to remove and replace broken laptop hinges.
Today we are going to remove and replace broken display hinges on Toshiba Satellite A20 or A25 laptop. Replacing broken laptop hinges is a very time consuming repair because you have to take apart the laptop base and the laptop display. This guide has a lot of disassembly steps, so make sure to memorize the disassembly process. For all removed screws I usually use plastic caps. I mark these caps by layers: bottom, keyboard, under keyboard, system board, LCD mask, screen, etc. You can use your own names. It also would be very useful to make some notes so you can use it when assembling the laptop after the repair.
Here are the left and right hinge part numbers for Toshiba Satellite A20 and A25 laptops:
Brake hinge, right: P000378510
Brake hinge, left: P000368300
You can search for these parts on ebay on via google. Be prepared, hinges are very expensive.
Need spare parts for your laptop? Search here by the laptop model and part name or number.
July 1st, 2009 at 7:09 pm
pls is it compulsory for me to replace my hard disk with a toshiba own after it got spoilt cos i have removed it and giving me problems with the other. pls i need help come to my rescue.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:15 am
Luca,
I guess you are asking about a Satellite 2450-S402 laptop?
Check out these part numbers. They are for a Satellite 2455 laptop but should fit your laptop too.
Left hinge: P000368300
Right hinge: P000368310
April 17th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Hi I’looking for the part number of 2450-402 hinges Left and Right samebody know they one
regards
April 15th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Halodude,
You can connect it to the case of your desktop.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Peter,
In order to access the primary fan you’ll have to remove the motherboard. Unfortunately, I don’t have these instructions.
I don’t remember that model off the top of my head. Maybe it’s cooling the GPU chip?
March 7th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I have a noisy fan so I opened up the notebook (A25-S279), used your procedure for A20/A25 replacing broken hinges, and went as far as Step 10, skipped Step 11, did Step 12, skipped Steps 13, 14 and 15 then did Steps 16, 17 and 18. Couldn’t find anything wrong with the fan — this is the secondary fan, not the one that sits next to the CPU heat sink (what is this secondary fan for?). The fan continues to be very loud and chirpy/grating. I can’t figure out how to remove it or get a closer look at it. Any further steps/pictures on how to take it out? Thanks for all the wonderful step by step advice and pictures.
February 1st, 2009 at 7:34 am
How do you protect yourself from ESD when you work with the insided¡s of a laptop. they say wear the strap, but I don´t know where to clip it on.
January 6th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Angela,
Did you remove memory? Make sure it’s seated correctly.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Hi there. I took apart my laptop and put it back together again. I only did pages 1 and 2.
Now it’s not starting up. The light comes on but the screen doesn’t. any idea where to start?
Thanks!
Angela.
December 17th, 2008 at 6:04 am
I just purchased an A25 Toshiba laptop with loose hinges. I then looked on Ebay searching for a25 toshiba laptops (completed) and every single one of them had a hing problem. Why wouldn’t this now be considered a design flaw? Why isn’t anyone making Toshiba be held accountable for an obvious design flaw. Their reputation, in my eyes, has been tarnished.
December 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Dear,
I’m looking for left hinge reference for toshiba A10, do you know it? Does it the same reference?
Thanks
July 17th, 2008 at 5:54 am
can you tell me if all toshiba satellite laptops have a mini PCI slot? not an express one.
July 16th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Nevermind. Figured it out.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
Hi there,
I was diassembling my Toshiba A-20 laptop to replace a broken hinge. I noticed there was a tiny plastic coating surrounding the left hinge, which was broken. I believe I can also see the plastic part in the middle of this picture.
I believe this is useful for the lid close switch. Do you have any idea ?
June 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I have a
tecra a2-s336
the lcd seems to be responding with the fl tube, dims and brightens ok, but the lcd fades to the white light every time you let go of it…meaning you have to hold it tight at the left corner of lcd panel and then it works briefly…..
you think the lcd panel sounds dead
also are there any known replacement screens for this lg.phillips 150×06
love how the toggle for open/close is a magnet..it cant break….
June 12th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I have a A20-S207 and for the last year the screen has been tempermental. The right half flickers everyonce in a while. If you play with the position of the screen in stops flickering, but you can tell that there is a dead pixel line. It is like the sides overlap very slightly. I have checked everything and nothing seems loose. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
May 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
for #66 you should check all screen connections, may be lose or if screen is bad just chuck it its cheaper to get a new laptop.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
hi…ya i have already bought an inverter for mine before i got the backlight and it did nothing…i heard when you can see a faint image on your desktop its the backlight.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:55 am
hey Alex… I read online that may be the inverter board for the screen… so, now I don’t know which one to order… the lcd, the bulb or the inverter board…
April 29th, 2008 at 6:50 am
hey rob…i have a toshiba a-20..and the same thing happened to me..i ordered a backlight and hoked it up but it did not come on. most of the time when your screen is out like that its the backlight. which is the balb in the lcd….i donno if i have a bad lcd or a bad new balb….so its prob one of them and if you find out let me know. thanks
April 28th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Hey guys,
I have a Toshiba A15 S157 laptop. One day the screen started flickering the same way like I put a speaker or cell phone next to it, but there was actually nothing next to the laptop… after that shortly, the screen went very very dark. I can barely see anything how dark it is… If I hook it up to the external monitor, it works, so it’s not the video card… I was thinking if my screen went bed or maybe something else? If the screen is bad, then is there a list of all compatible brand and generic screens that I could maybe buy from ebay and save myself some money? (if that’s a screen problem at all…)
Thanks,
Robert
March 31st, 2008 at 7:28 am
alex again…hey guys i took apart my laptop to replace the backlight…i got it in but the balb does not come on…any ideas ???
March 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Alex,
Check out this article.
How to replace laptop backlight lamp (CCFL)
It’s not for a specific laptop model but may help you.
March 6th, 2008 at 8:30 am
hi i was wondering if anyone knows how to replace the backlight for the toshiba a20????
March 5th, 2008 at 7:30 am
This tutorial can be helpful also for Toshiba Satellite 2450-101 - it’s the same body construction like A20
February 27th, 2008 at 1:07 am
This information is just great. My kids have broken the display of my A20-s103 and I could manage to replace it by myself. Thanks a lot. I bought a no name 15″ LCD display. I had to transfer the side brackets and the LF inverter connector from the defective one. At first attempt probably I connected the pins in wrong position (there is two pins)and the bottom of the display and LF inverter became too hot. Display started to blink. Then I changed the pin positions and everything works well now. The other point was, the data cable did not reach the connector behind the display, I have removed the cable bracket for the data cable in order to extend it a litle bit, and not installed the cable bracket anymore. Now the computer works fine.
Thanks a lot for detailed and illustrated instructions.
Oguzhan