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.
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?