Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 notebook. How to remove and replace system board, power board and video board.
Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 disassembly guide will help you completely take apart the notebook to remove and replace the system board, the power board and the video board. Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 notebook has some known problems very similar to Toshiba Tecra TE2100. Overtime the video card pops up from the connector on the system board causing unpredictable video problems. If you experience a video problem try to press on the video board so it makes a better connection with the system board. Also you can experience a problem with starting the laptop. When you press on the power button the laptop will not start and the power LED flashes orange. Most of the time it happens because of a poor connection between the power board and the system board. In some cased you can fix the problem by reseating the power board. If reseating the board doesn’t help then the system board and the power board has to be replaced. One more problem – you can get the CMOS (RTC) battery error each time you turn on the laptop. If replacing the battery doesn’t fix the problem then it might be also caused a bad connection between the power board and the system board. Try to reseat the power board.
January 6th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Thank you.
I think I will attempt this tommorow (once I have found my soldering iron)
January 6th, 2010 at 10:10 am
bluerocketman,
I guess you are talking about the BIOS password. This should help: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2006/02/10/remove-clear-toshiba-laptop-bios/
January 6th, 2010 at 10:07 am
I haven’t used my 6100 Satellite Pro for a couple of years – to the point where I have a black screen and a password prompt and cannot for the life of me remember the password??
Can anyone tell me if I can get around this??
Thanks
November 12th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hello Im having an issue with the Satellite Pro 6100 the video distorts, on the LCD and an external monitor, when I take the video card out and reseat it the video fixes it self, I believe the thermal grease on the video card heat-sink is the culprit and the video card is overheating. I’ll put some Artic Silver 5 on it tonight and see if that resolves my issue..
November 9th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Pros: I like its 15.4″ 1400×1050 non glossy screen and its nvidia video card with 32 mb of dedicated memory. The 2.0 intel Pentium 4 processor is good for the average use I give to this machine at my office and for my academic stuff. Good sound and wifi.
Cons: It has only two usb ports and they are 1.0 so they are very slow. There is no firewire port nor bluetooth.
Summary: After six years and after that the motherboard and battery were replaced by warranty service during the very first year, the machine is still working very well for me. During these five years I have replaced the 60GB hard drive with a WD 160 GB 5400 rpm and replaced the dvd rom and once again the battery. Now with 1GB of memory and its brand new HDD, this machine works nicely and neat with Ubuntu 8.04 and under wine smoothly runs MS Word 2003 and BibleWorks 6.0.
This is why I give four stars to this machine. More than six years of service is what I have squeeze so far from this machine. I hope that this machine might provice me at least three more years of service with Ubuntu. It is still capable of running WinXp SP3 although it came with Win2K. This is why now I got another Toshiba (P305-S8832).
I still use it, yes six years later, this machine for regular office and academic work and also for listening music and watching DVD movies. Did I said you that this machine has served me more than six years? Wow! this is why I really cannot complain about this machine. It is not a high end machine but it is so faithful!
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:09 am
Hi
I have a toshiba sat pro 6100 purchased new in 2002. Never had real issues other than heating, use a targa fan. It does occasionally have usb issues so bought a hub.
My main problems: I stupidly installed a free version of linux so upon startup I can open windows xp pro or linux (xandros). Now I need that 10 gig hd space back the linux side is using but cannot bloody remember how to UNINSTALL it. Someone said buy partition magic cd on ebay but then what? Is that the only way to remove linux and get my 10 gigs back?
Second, I installed a spore game but even using the external WD hard drive mybook, it says my video card needs to be updated to play spore on this laptop, no surprise. The video card is a nvidia geforce4 420 go. Is it possible to upgrade the video card on this laptop?
THANKS
October 5th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 which was knocked off the couch. It did work fine before it fell right after it fell only the charge and power light would come on (first two green lights from left to right) now no lights come on Would a fall from about 4 feet cause serious damage or maybe just knock lose a board in the unit. I have taken the unit apart and looking for any lose connections. But can not seem to find any. Any advise you might have on what to look for or at as to why it’s not powering up now. would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
September 15th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
My laptob Toshiba pro satalite 6100 ,problem is to replace cmos battery but I could not find its location and Idont know its shap?
So kindly where can i find it and if you supported by photo i will be very thanx.
September 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I am looking for place to battery???
August 31st, 2009 at 6:55 am
my toshiber satalite 6100 complain of bad cmos and as a technician i repace with the same type, after coupling the power and battery led comes ON when power is pluged in but does not power on whem the power button is press on. what could be wrong.please i need help.
July 27th, 2009 at 5:33 am
HI i have taken appart my toshiba sp6100, When getting round to reasembling it i have a white cable and a black cable that comes from the monitor. I know where they go bout dont know which way round they go, can anybody help me
Cheers
May 11th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
brad kirk,
Sounds like a problem with the screen. This is a relatively common failure in LCD screens.
April 24th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I have a small red line that changes to yellow intemittently on the left side of my lcd screen. If I move the screen areound, or press on the back of the screen near the latch to close the laptop, it dissapears. Is it the connector, or the screen itself
April 15th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Bristol Harris,
This is antenna cable for the BlueTooth module. If you don’t have BlueTooth installed, the wire do not connect to anything.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Azteca,
It’s a FireWire port. Do you have that port on your new laptop? If not, that’s why you don’t see that.
Could be software related issue. First of all, try reimaging the hard drive using the recovery disc. This will reload your laptop back to original factory state.
March 4th, 2009 at 10:19 am
Azteka, could be 3 thngs:
Virus
Faulty network hardware
Faulty network configuration
Firstly, run the Windows utility for network diagnostics, via the Help and Support menu. Just type in “connection fault” and follow the tips. It will guide you through an exhaustive diagnosis, then if issue persists, update this page with the results of the diagnostics and that should give enough clues as to what’s going on. I would suggest using it exhaustively until you have more info to corroborate any of the above 3 things.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Anyone,
I just bought a Toshiba 6100 2.2Ghz, 1gig ram and its having issues after issues.
First the DVD Drive worked when it wanted to. So my neighbor that sold it to me bought a new one through his company where i believe they used to use it for work.
So he told me to update at microsoft update.
So i did until one day it would not show the windows update page any longer it would go automatically to google page.
Now the laptop will not even go online. I was looking at my old laptop and noticed there is a net adaptor 1394 and I don’t see that on the toshiba…is there suppose to be one there?
It does say it is connected either wireless or cable and has good strength but will not connect onto internet.
It will not even add a new connection…
Everytime I start the toshiba up it will show the task bar icons of volume control when it wants or not.
Please help or show me where to go.
It has mcafee and nod32. it also has ccleaner and tuneup utilites.
Thanks,
Azteca
January 20th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
in taking apart the 6100 there is a light brown wire with the same type of push connector as on the wirelesslan card, on the top half of the laptop up towards the top right, just at the edge of the hole, under black tape, can anyone tell me just what this goes to and where it is to connect?
November 8th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
I have video problem, the computer will have vertical yellow strips on the display, When I boot the system it reverts to the lowest video setting (600×800, and 4 bit). If I tried to change, the system fails to switch to higher resolution (1000X1200 or 1200×1600 at 16 or 32 bit depth). A few times i have been able to change to higher resolution. Can you suggest what might be the problem.
Thanks for any help or support you can provide. I was considering removing and re-seating the video board to fix the video problems. If you recommend any other solution I will be willing to try those.
November 8th, 2008 at 8:34 am
thank you!! removing/reseating the battery board did the trick!
NOTE – when dealing with the bottom screws, the two long ones go in the back corners.
On the wireless board, my pc had a TORX style screw -with the center pin. This made it hard to remove/replace since I didn’t have that particular driver!! I was able to grasp the head with needle nose and loosen/remove/replace it. Otherwise would have been a show stopper!!
As far as I could tell tho, the wireless cover simply screws into the other part of the cover place – so anything to hold that cover in place would be adequate, i.e. tape would be enough – its not structural.
November 4th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Reference to #88, My AC power light is flashing and unable to restart the laptop. Does anyone know how to find a better power pack, or adapter for my Satellite Pro6100, which is already 7 years old. May be if I can change the power pack I could find the video card problem.
James Ho
October 13th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
can i use a dell lcd screen for my laptop?
flat screen?
its the same dimensions?