Thanks
Amit

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…

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?

Help!!!! Toshiba seems to have problems with cd/dvd drive. it opes but reads no cd/dvd…..

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.

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.

Apparently one of the capacitors has blown up. If you remove the motherboard, you’ll see the damaged capacitor.

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.

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.

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?

Sometimes they just die like people. One day it works fine and on the next morning it’s dead.

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).

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.