Toshiba Satellite 5205. How to remove and replace laptop DVD/CD-ROM drive.
You can use the Toshiba Satellite 5205 guide for removing and replacing the DVD/CD-ROM drive or the keyboard. On this model you have to remove the keyboard in order to remove and replace the DVD/CD-ROM drive because the optical drive securing screw is located under the keyboard. Always start laptop disassembly with removing the battery or you can damage the system board if you accidentally touch it with a screwdriver and shorten traces. Removing the keyboard strip is not very difficult, use your fingers to release the plastic latches. If you want to replace the keyboard, do not forget to unlock the connector on the system boar before you pull the cable.
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April 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Brian,
Are you sure the fan is bad and has to be replaced. Does it start at all? Maybe it’s just clogged with dust. Have you tried cleaning the fan with compressed air?
April 20th, 2009 at 9:14 am
SO does anyone know how to replace the CPU cooler fan on this machine? I got the thing to boot using a different DVD drive… then it just shut off mid rebuild…
April 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am
del,
1. Uninstall the CD/DVD drive from the device manager, restart the laptop and let it to detect the drive again and install the driver. It might help.
2. If the CD/DVD drive disappeared from My Computer try this solution from Microsoft. Remove UpperFilters and LowerFilters from the registry and restart the laptop.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Apparently one of the capacitors has blown up. If you remove the motherboard, you’ll see the damaged capacitor.
When the power LED starts blinking yellow, most likely there is a problem with the motherboard. Even if you find a reference for that code, it will not help a lot. You’ll have to replace the motherboard.
Sometimes they just die like people. One day it works fine and on the next morning it’s dead.
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Ok, found a link for it finally that seems to say I now need a new motherboard. How the heck did I frag the motherboard?
the error is binary with least significant bit first which means you reverse it and convert it to hex which gives me 45h which is:
S3V voltage is not more than 3.14V when the computer is supports CV and is booting up
The link with all the Toshiba blinking error codes is here for future reference for folks:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/51345/
scroll down past the first post as all those links are now blocked (gee thanks for sharing Toshiba).
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
The code being blinked apparently is 10100010 which I can’t find on google anywhere as all links that refer to it seem to have gone the way of the dodo.
July 23rd, 2008 at 6:20 pm
well shit.
So I took it apart again, checked all the connections, replaced all the screws that I had missed the first time (only took 1.5 hours this time) and booted it up; same problem. The Cisco LCD Adapter is still disabled in the device manager. I also noticed he power button wasn’t lighting up, though I dont remember if that happened before I attempted to repair this thing or not.
Everything else was working, but while attempting to type this up first the mouse died while I was AFK and when I went into the control panel to try to see what was going on it gave me some .dll error about it not existing, so I power rebooted and all the synaptic touchpad stuff was completely gone and just generic mouse controller stuff was in its place and it wouldn’t detect new hardware or see the mouse in any way shape or form. So I attempted to type this up again and right in the middle of doing so there was a sudden pop and whine and the whole laptop just powered off and on the front display the power cord icon started blinking yellow slowly. Only popping the battery out stopped it from doing so, and it wouldn’t power on again for love or money. This just occured. I have a feeling I have completely fried my laptop now and only hope the hard drive survived which you are of course going to tell me is dead.
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:38 am
Since your monitor is disabled in the “Device Manager” then it is not connected properly.
The video cable is the flat one that connects at the back of the LCD monitor.
Make sure that you have not connected it the wrong way.
July 22nd, 2008 at 5:30 am
Would that make the LCD display disabled in the Device Manager? Which one is the video cable? The tiniest ribbon cable with ‘SYS’ printed on it? because that one came loose several times in the course of trying to plug it back in. Are there any specific tools or techniques you have for testing to see if its in all the way or is there a way I can test the monitor while its all still taken apart that’s not too horribly risky? It is a pain in the ass to take this thing apart and put it back together every time I want to test a connection.
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:49 am
Van, if you use a flashlight to send light on your monitor do you see your desktop icons/wallpaper?
Try doing that in a dark room.
In case you are able to see something, then 4 things could happen:
1. The power cable going from the mainboard to the inverter has been disconnected.
2. The power cable going from the inverter to the backlight of your monitor has been disconnected
3. The inverter is out of order and needs replacement (it should have an output of more than 1000Volts AC).
4. The backlight bulb is dead.
In case you are not able to see something then you should check if your video cable is disconnected from the mainboard or the monitor. But I don’t think that this is the case, since you should then see a white monitor, instead of a black one because of the backlight.
Good luck!
July 19th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
So I had some busted hinges on my 5205-S503 and used this, the 5201 guide on this site, and the Toshiba 5200 series pdf instruction manual I found online to disassemble it with a friend of mine who’s done extensive desktop repairs (but this was his first laptop).
First, CHRIST was this a major headache. It took us five hours + to totally disassemble, documenting every step of the way, labelling screws etc, and we still ended up with four screws leftover (granted three of them I know exactly where they were supposed to go just forgot to put them in and didn’t feel like disassembling it again to do so, since it was just the speaker screws and one B20 that we put the screw on the hinge in the wrong place so blocked it. The fourth I think I know where it goes but it was the same issue).
Anyway, we reassembled it and now the monitor is totally dead. Going into my device manager, I see the Cicso Systems VPN adapter is disabled. If that’s the teeny tiny little ribbon cable that I had hell’s own time plugging back in because even with my tiny hands there simply wasn’t enough room to negotiate and get it in there and I probably damaged it (some faint scratches but it seemed alright, and I had similar problems with the touchpad cable and it works fine) or something isn’t plugged in all the way or something.
I’m wondering if you could hazard a guess as to what exactly. It doesn’t appear there’s even power to the screen, but everything else boots up fine and in fact I’ve got it hooked up to an external CRT monitor and its working fine (save not playing videos, though it will play youtube, all I get is sound though that may be screen resolution or something I don’t know).
I’m willing to take it all back apart again if I can get another five hours uninterrupted and find some better/more model specific documentation online than what I’ve currently got (neither lined up exactly it was a cross-referencing between the two and random guesses). I’d really like to get this working without resulting in outside help if possible as the cost of labor alone would probably be more than this thing is worth anymore (its a good six years old at least). TIA
June 9th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I checked the lights and listened for the HDD.
The HDD light flickers and then doesn’t come back on. As the light flickers, the HDD whirs, but then nothing else happens.
Hope this helps. Thanks for any feedback you can provide.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Thanks cj6200. I can’t seem to find a ‘BIOS setup menu’. I can access the boot menu (F2), but holding the escape and/or F1 gets me a very minimal BIOS interface - I can only change the system time, date, or restore defaults…nothing like the standard desktop BIOS where I can view all IDE devices, etc…
I will check the lights and listen for the drive. Until then, any ideas on the BIOS?
Also - does that ‘media failure, check cable’ message refer to the HDD? I figured it was referring to the optical since that is what I had just installed. Thanks so much!
June 7th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Jeff,
It looks like for some reason the laptop “cannot see” the hard drive. Enter the BIOS setup menu. Can you see the hard drive in the BIOS? Is the hard drive LED flashing when you turn on the laptop? Can you hear the hard drive spinning?
June 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am
I followed the instructs to replace the DVD drive (used the UJ-811B). When I boot, I get the following message:
PXE-E61 Media Failure, Check Cable
I can’t get past this. I checked the cable connection, and everything is secure. The drive revs and I can hear the CD working - the indicator light works properly, etc…
Since this laptop does not have an extensive BIOS interface, I am stuck. Any ideas?
May 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I have a 5205-s503 and im trying to reinstall xp. ive got the correct restore discs. i have installed whatever toshiba said i needed to correct the wrong machine errors. when i boot i hold f12 and then press right twice to select cd rom drive. the screen goes black and an underscore blinks in the top left hand corner like three times and then it goes to a screen with safe mode boot options. it nevers boots from any of the options. it shows the xp boot screen then goes black and nothing ever happens. every onve in a while it boots to a blue screen with some kinda bios error. sorry for all the detail, but please help. im at my wits end.
March 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Similar backlight problem with my Toshiba 5205-S504 (I think S504 - I’m not at home right now). I replaced the Inverter but no change. I can still barely see the desktop icons.
So is my next step the backlight (CCF?) or the light tube (or is this the same thing)? Not sure if I want to attempt this fix.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Help!!!! Toshiba seems to have problems with cd/dvd drive. it opes but reads no cd/dvd…..
Pls any sugestion
February 27th, 2008 at 12:33 am
hey could anybody tell me how to remove the cd drive on a toshiba satellite m45??
February 16th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Hi, I just found this side and think it’s really useful. Unfortunately I couldn’t find yet what I need. The hinge of my Toshiba 5200-903 is broken and I have no clue how I can fix it. Can someone by any chance help me out with this? Pleeeeaaaassseeeee, I love my baby.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:34 am
larrym thanx for your reply…
The problem still remains due to lack of time.
In the meantime I tested the output of the inverter and looks ok since it is more than 1000V AC…
So probably the problem is the backlight bulb…
I hesitate a bit ordering a new backlight bulb as I am afraid that I will not be able to replace it.
How was the procedure to your 5205-S505?
Did you find any difficulties reassembling the LCD?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:48 am
for GilC
who asked “Also, are adapters available to install third party hard drives into the style bay compartment?”
— Look for harddrive Caddy for Toshiba 8100. Tosh 8000 and other models maybe(?) use the same caddy. On ebay, look for the caddy that comes with the plastic adapter. You should find these for about $14 to $20 incl shipping.
for Andreas
It’s good if you get video on external monitor. Maybe you’ve fixed your display by now. Here’s my experience with 5205-S505.
* ribbon cable (poss. issue with other laptops) seems like a reliable component and design in 5205’s
* I replaced the Backlight (CCF? it’s called?) when I had problems similar to yours… flicker, then darkening, then almost nothing on screen and ext. okay. Part cost me
January 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
I think my problem is exactly the same as the one described by Eric at message #39 and by Dan Leavitt at message #64.
Before all these events I had also this pinkish colors when my monitor was off and was normal after a few seconds.
Dan at message #68 what was really the problem with packing everything back together?
Dan after message #81 did you find what was going wrong? Did you fix it?
Was the new inverter or the new LCD bad?
January 18th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Well today the things changed… my monitor turned almost totally black! I can hardly see the desktop.
However, the flickering seems to have stopped.
What is going wrong???
January 17th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I have found good instructions concerning the LCD disassembling… –> http://www.screentekinc.com/lcd-removal-instructions_en,toshiba,step4.shtml
Do you have any idea what is that coulb be going wrong with my LCD?
I think there 4 possibilities:
1. The LCD needs replacement
2. The video cable needs replacement
3. The inverter that supplies the power needs replacement
4. The inverter or backlight cable needs replacement
5. Your opinion
Please if you are familiar with my problem I would appreciate your help.
Thanx in advance!
Andreas
p.s. The only way to work with my laptop rightnow is to connect to an external monitor.
January 12th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hey there!
I am the owner of a Toshiba Satellite 5200-902 (which is exactly the same with the 5205-S705).
Since yesterday I have a flickering problem with my LCD screen.
Please check the following short video to see what I mean: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4545062325473598117
What is going wrong?
Is it a bad connection because of a loose cable
or
is it time to replace my LCD screen?
My graphic card seems to be ok since I can connect an external monitor and have no flickering to the external monitor. So, the problem is located somewhere at the LCD…
Can you supply the proper instruction in order to disassemble and reassemble the LCD?
I would appreciate any help!
Thank you for your time reading my problem.
January 3rd, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Does anyone know if a Pioneer DVR-K06 can be used to replace the original CD/DVD drive in a 5205-S703?
Also, are adapters available to install third party hard drives into the style bay compartment?
November 6th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Dan Leavitt, if you still want a tv tuner, I have a spare I would be willing to part with. 30 bucks? I got 2 when I got my 705, it was a display model and for some reason it come with 2 tuners.
Email me G W Cullen @ gmail dot come
Just take out the spaces.
My CD drive is dead again, I was lucky to find a 810b with the right firmware installed last year when my hdd died, it got me up and running, but now its dead again. I tried upgrading to a 841 I think but could not get it be only slave (I think) so I was never able to use it. Has anyone been able to get a modern drive to work in the 5205 series?
November 6th, 2007 at 2:48 am
Brian C
The way to change the boot order is to press the right or left arrow key when it is booting up, this will then enable to you to scroll through the various icons that represent the different boot source options.
once you have selected your icon hit enter and it should then boot from that source.