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.
February 8th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Hi,
This is a very useful tutorial, congratulations!
I was wodering if you knew how to access the mini pci slot on the A20 ?
Steve
February 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Chris,
Take a look at the Toshiba Satellite P105 disassembly guide. You’ll see the RTC (CMOS) battery on the step 16, it’s attached to the motherboard by the PC card connector.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Hi,
I have a satellite P100 with a bad RTC battery.
Can anbody tell me where it is?
Thanks in advance.
Chris
February 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Hi, I only discovered your wonderul guide after paying $180 for hinge replacement on my Toshiba A20-S103…
When I brought it back I started having a feeling that before the repair the built in speakers played a bit more bass - they now seem to exaggerate the high frequencies and are quite devoid of any low ones. Am I just being suspicious or could the service people have affected the sound quality? Also, now the lid/screen is quite stiff… Could they have over-tightened the hinges? Is the looseness adjustable at all when replacing the hinges?
Thanks in advance for your patience with my silly questions…
Thanks a lot!
January 13th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Hey thanks alot… used this A20 guide to replace the broken hinges on my Toshiba 2450. Everything was identical except for a few tiny details. Wouldn’t have even attempted it without this guide!
Thanks
December 24th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I have a a20-s259 with a bad RTC battery. Do I have to go through all 19 steps to replace it?. If there is a short cut, please help. Thanks
December 20th, 2007 at 11:00 am
i have an A-20 now and it used to shut off when it got really hot..if that is the case just get a can of air and spray it at the back in the fan and also in the one at the bottom..hope it works..
December 20th, 2007 at 10:58 am
hi!! this was great when i replaced the hinges but now my back light is done…should i replace that myself with you help? lol or should i just get a hole lcd screen together? and if i was to get the lcd screen do i need a new inverter? thanks so much
November 29th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Kevin,
I don’t know much about laptops but the only time that my laptop has ever done that to me has been when it got too hot. If I sat my laptop on my lap and had it on for a while it would just shut off because it couldn’t cool down because it was sitting on my pants.
November 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I’ve got an older Toshiba Satellite A-20 and I use it for pretty much nothing today, I’ve even taken every file off of it… However, I it seem like such a waste to throw it in the trash when the only thing wrong with it is that it randomly shuts off instantly… wether it is connected to the AC or running off the battery… it will be working fine and then pop off it goes, no blue screen, just completely off and silent as if it were never turned on.
I know it isn’t a software problem as that is what I do for a living… but hardware is beyond my scope. Could it be a bad power supply? If so can I buy one and replace it?
Has anyone experienced this problem, if so, what did yu to do to fix it, apart from throwing it in the trash.
any help is much appreciated
November 10th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I did the steps but I remained as soon as I found the processor that I must do later to be able to find the modules of memory
October 30th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
This guide was fantastic - Would not have been able to replace my hinges without it.
Thankyou very much.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Might right hinge just broke on my A25-S2792 satellite laptop and noticed that there were some screws missing from the bottom. I don’t know the part numbers to the screws and was wondering if you could help. I am missing an F3, B2, F6 and one of the screws on the corner and a screw where the battery is.
October 24th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Donna,
You’ll have to remove the screen bezel as it shown on the steps 21 and 22 and take a closer look at the hinges.
October 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
same thing that happened to me but on the Esc key side…
October 20th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
I have a Toshiba A25 S207. The display is floppy, but I don’t know if it is the hinge that is broken or not. It looks like a metal piece that holds the hinge in place under the speaker broke off. How can I tell what is really broken? It is the hinge on the HOME key side.
Thanks a lot!
October 4th, 2007 at 5:56 am
This looks like an excellent guide. Thanks.
My laptop’s screen flops down once I get to a certain point. I think the screws may be loose.
Do we have to follow all these steps to tighten the screws on screen hinges? Or can we follow some selected steps from the guide?
September 27th, 2007 at 5:26 am
This is a wonderful guide, step by step, and not a single error or ambiguity that was not explained in the additional “things to know before you start” section. I would recommend looking there for the keyboard cable removal instructions.
I was done in 2.5 hours, going nice and slow. I’d recommend getting some small bags and numbering them so that you can put screws in for each of the numbered steps you come across.
Thanks again. I would not have even attempted this without this guide.
For any fellow Canadians, I found the hinges here:
http://www.notebooksolutions.ca
Under laptop parts, lcd hinges and brackets.
July 31st, 2007 at 8:24 am
I have a new couple of Toshiba Satellite hinges (P000368310, P000368300). If you are interested in buying them contact me at mattia.pascal at gmail.com
July 28th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Hi!
Thank you so much for these instructions!
I have a problem with the saound card of an italian satellite s2450-s203 which “looks like” the a20.
I want to ask you:
can I replace the sound card by few simple operations? Or the card is welded to the motherboard?
thanks and sorry for my english, I hope you will understand me!!
July 14th, 2007 at 3:25 am
HEY!
thanks so much for this guide, it was exactly what I needed.
A few weeks ago, the left hinge has totaly broken apart when I opened the screen. From this point on, the screen could only be used in the upright position (balanced), or, all the way to the back, in the rotation limiters.
clearly, this sucked. Especially since it was in a 3 week during testweek of my University.
Then I found this site, scrolled through the replacement guide and simply became wild of enthousiasm. I orderd the hinges, and weird enough, recieved these right after my last test.
The next day, I opened up the A20, and folowed al the steps. After 3 hours of RELAXATION and having a laptop spreaded across the floor, the job was done!
Once again, thanks for this guide, since it was very clear, step by step, and made me very relaxed during the process!
June 17th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I have a question I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-S207
the screen hinges are very loose “the screen flops down once you get to a certain point. Do the hinges need to be replaced or can I adjust them?
June 7th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I have a question I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-S207
the screen hinges are very loose “the screen flops down once you get to a certain point. Do the hinges need to be replaced or can I adjust them?
June 4th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Alex,
Here’s some help for you. How to remove BIOS password from Toshiba laptops
June 4th, 2007 at 10:30 am
Hello.
I have a Toshiba A20-S207. I forgot my bios password and I can´t use it anymore. Could you help me, please?
How can I unblock it?
Thanks
June 3rd, 2007 at 11:03 am
Thank you so much for your help. I’ve checked and the 2455 il looking like
my 2450 so I will be looking for one of the listed LCD display.
Thank you again,
Renzo
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:37 am
Helpful info to pass along.
My satellite laptop hinge (right side) broke. CDROM started acting strange a few weeks later (jumpy startup and play, difficult to burn, shut down during playback, turn off during movies, etc. Thought my disc was going bad or my drivers were messed up.
That wasn’t the problem.
Turns out, when the hinge broke, it released a tiny screw into the CDROM housing area. Right-side hinge sits directly above it. Go figure. Removed it. I don’t know about any long term damage, but disc works fine now. Next step will be to fix that busted hinge!
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:59 am
Renzo,
It looks like your Satellite S2450-S203 is a European model and I don’t have a part list for this unit.
Here’s what I found for a similar USA model - Satellite 2455-S305.
You can install the following screen into the Satellite 2455 (and I believe Satellite 2450 too):
LG Philips LP150X06(A2) - like yours.
Samsung LTN150X6-L01
Sharp LQ150X1LHC3,
Sharp LQ150X1LHC3 A,
Sharp LQ150X1LHC3 B
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:42 am
Hi, I have a Toshiba S2450-S203 and unfortunately the LCD display got broken. The original one is a LG-PHILIPS LP150X06 (A2) and I’ve found that SAMSUNG LTN 150X06-L01 and SHARP LQ150X1BH3 are 100% compatible.
Can you help me? Are they really a perfect replacement for the original one?
Thank you for your help,
Renzo
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:49 am
Ups, I didn’t saw the other pages… now I know where they are, thanks anyway and GREAT job.