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.
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February 20th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Toshiba,
How many Satellite 6100 laptops you fixed by replacing the CMOS battery?
February 19th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
replacing the manufacture faulty cmos battery for 6100pro series fixes all of the above issues.
Toshiba
February 14th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Thanks to you,
I successfully dismantled and remantled a Tosh SP6100.
I had a problem with intermittent LCD display defects, (a large area of the LCD was turning Black at random, sometimes for weeks on end). When i recently pressed around on the screen itself, the fault disappeared.
I could not find the problem, but your instructions were useful, and if the problem comes back, i will try and squeeze or make shim’s for the VIDEO board.
See Ya
February 13th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Hi Geeks
I have two Satellite Pro 6100 with one 30 GB Toshiba HDD. Both laptops run fine with this HDD. When I’m trying to install 60 GB Toshiba HDD (have tried few different of them) BIOS simply don’t detect HDD. When I’m trying to install identical working 30 GB Toshiba HDD from Dell laptop I’m getting Blue screen of death with suggestion to check for viruses, check HDD CONFIGURATION or connection on motherboard. But when I’m plugging back original HDD laptops works fine. So what HDD configurations can be. Original HDD hasn’t got any jumpers on it. Quite funny problem. I ‘ve tried to update BIOS, to reset BIOS to defoult - it doesn’t helps.
What ideas can gererate your bright minds?
January 28th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
HELP…I have no clue..Puter was working just fine.Finished on night shut it down. Plugged in charger for a few.. Next morning went to use it and nothing.Plugged A/c power back in, lights come on looks like charging..But got to turn it on and nothing.All lights go out. Mabe my charger? Cmos battery? Battery?? Where do I start without dumping in a ton of money
January 21st, 2008 at 1:58 am
Hi, I also have a 6100. I had an artefacted display. I removed the keyboard to have a look at it. Pressing on the module gave a good response. But it still happens using the keyboard. It is also getting very warm/hot. So, I’m thinking of ordering a new module. But now my problem is that I unscrewed every screw and after lifting the upper part two wires were disconnected.A black an a brown one. I can’t find their connections on the board. Could you please help me out.
December 28th, 2007 at 7:55 am
CJ; In comment no. 4 You mention a power board connected to the system board and the CRT Battery in a Tosh SP6100, but parts does not list a power board. Can you give more data on the power board ?
Can a SP6100 be upgraded to an 802.11g wireless LAN from the stock 802.11b one ?
Cam an SP6100 be upgraded from a USB1.1 to a USB2.0 ?
December 5th, 2007 at 8:11 am
What size T? tamper-proof star bit (with hole in middle) do you need to remove the security screw from the base of the Tosh SatPro 6100 laptop to disassemble?
Is it smaller than a T8?
November 27th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Hi anyone,
I have a problem with my Toshiba satellite pro 6100, when I press power button, it doesn’t work, but when I wait about 3 minutes and I press power button, it works, but only less 1 minutes laptop off. Any body can help me ? sorry my English is bad. thank you !
November 26th, 2007 at 7:40 am
Hi, Does anyone know how to upgrade the video card on the SP6100?
Generally they say it;s not possible on laptops, but the video card on this one does come out, and i’m guessing that some other higher specced toshibas might have higher specced video cards that might fit in this machine?
Thanks!
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Chuck,
This is a really strange problem. I would suspect the keyboard but you say it has been replaced. The keyboard plugs directly into the motherboard or into the video card? Maybe this problem is somehow related to the video card?
This is just a guess.
October 30th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Sorry but i didnt see any where to post this model
didnt mean to Hijack
Tecra A4 Series (Tecra A4-S211)
Third time I replaced the motherboard, along with Two keyboard’s, same problem, my keys are bound together with the key that’s below it (example) when I hit the 3 key I get 3e, the 5 key I get 5t
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated
October 11th, 2007 at 8:36 am
Matt,
The light brown wire is an antenna cable for the Bluetooth card. If you don’t have this module installed, just run the cable through the hole and attached in the Bluetooth card area with a sticky tape.
October 11th, 2007 at 7:34 am
In post #44 Darren mentioned that he could not find the target of the light brown wire running from the lcd to what seems to be the bottowm of the system board. Does anyone know where this wire attatches? I can’t reassemble my computer until if figure that out. email me at mmenard79@hotmail.com if you can help or post here. Thanks.
October 7th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I have a 6100 that had a problem where only the top third or the display would appear normally and the rest was blank. Since the output to external monitor was normal, I figured it was a display problem. I used the instructions on this site to dismantle the bottom half, but had to figure out how to take apart the screen bezel myself (I can provide instructions if you tell me how to post.)
Long story short, it was not the lcd screen itself but the cable running to it. Specifically I discovered that the cable was being pinched by a metal shield on the inside of the top base plastic. (Didn’t even need to take the bezel apart to remove the shield, had I known.)
I plan to buy a replacement cable, but I was wondering if that shield is strictly necessary? I am afraid if I put it back it will just ruin the new cable also.
Can I leave the sheild out or will that damage the laptop?
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 am
the system shows timeand date error. how to set the time and date and it says the battery is to be replaced. where the battery is located for timeand date in this toshiba laptop 6100 satelite pro.
September 12th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
After reading most of these comments I think I`ll take a hard look at the power supplied and the CMOS battery in My Toshiba S-pro 6100..after all you should at least be getting the CMOS to post its utility,I`am getting the same problems as these people.also what is that light brown wire with a connector on the end, does not seem to go to anything.
August 26th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Daniel,
It might happen because the video card is not making a good contact with the motherboard. Lift up the keyboard and gently press on the video card (lower left corner). It might help.
August 25th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Hi folks,
i´m owning a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 running WinXP Sp2 full patched and with the lastes drivers.I only use the power supply unit. I reinstalled the maschine twice and the following error won´t went away.
If i boot up the maschine it freezes completly at the login screen of WinXP. During this time it won´t accept any keyboard or mouse (tried trackpoint and external mouse)input.
After a short periode of time (5- 15 min) it “wake up” and let me work. Sometimes I have to reboot the maschine several time until I let me login.
Several post that i found via let me think it have something todo with the motherboard. Did anyone of you have had this problem.
I need to know if my problem it releated to the problem listed above. If someone know how to fix it by myself. It would be great.
Thanks,
Daniel
July 24th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Excellent Guide…i have mine apart right now for a clean up anybody else have a system that if you dont take out the battery it will drain it after a day or so have a short some where i suppose now that the board is out i can have a look thanks again for the very well done instructions ..chris
July 24th, 2007 at 1:13 am
I have a toshiba 6100 which was working fine until last night. I decided to conserve the battery life of the machine and so removed the battery from the system. I have dome this with IBM and Sony laptops before, but when I powered the toshiba up using only the a/c adapter the computer gave a bad checsum error and asked me to go into the bios. after this, it booted into XP normally, tho it did say the system time was wrong. thinking nothing more of it, i shut the computer down and left it. Today I find the computer completely lifeless. There are no lights that come on, the computer won’t boot up. I have tried putting the battery back in and using the a/c adapter, but there is nothing! I only bought this computer yesterday!! please can somebody help.
Regards
Adam
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:02 am
I’m having problems with the CD-Rom/DVD on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100. Played a movie yesterday. Today
I can’t play a movie. Error message comes up saying:
“a disk has an unsupported format is in drive D:”
DVD will NOT open a cd or play a cd with music on it.
An help that you can supply would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
June 29th, 2007 at 3:06 am
please help!!
I have this toshiba satellite pro 6100… the problem it is like this
The simtoms: wen I plug the charger in to the laptop noting hapens no led torn on noting… i unplug the cgarger… remove the battery conect the charger an the dc leg go green after i plug the battery bac ok it shows orange shows that is charging…but noting the laptop wan start up… …so i open the laptop and verify all the parts inside … and then the dc led starts to bink 1010001 someting like that after the blinking… the same simtoms…….
Thanks and please help
June 6th, 2007 at 5:59 am
The instructions were great but I need to replace my hinges. Is there any easy way to do this or do I need to replace the entire laptop cover? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
June 4th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
I broke the connector for the keyboard cable on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100. Is it possible to get a new connector on install it or do I need to replace the board?
Thanks.
June 1st, 2007 at 5:18 am
Hello could anybody tell me what does it mean. I have tecra m5 . Does not start only blink orange led 4 short signal and 4 long repeatly.
Is there any service manual for taht notebook or how to disasemly it
best regards Jędrzej Z
May 20th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Finally got it taken apart. What I found was a step was missing in the instructions. The DVD drive needs to be removed first by flipping the switch under the laptop to remove the drive cartridge. Then a screw will be revealed to be removed to lift the screen and top panel off.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Hi! Great instructions. I tried taking apart my Toshiba SP-6100 because of a video problem. I go stuck removing the top panel after removing the keyboard and all screws from the bottom as you instructed. The top panel won’t come apart from the body in the area of the DVD indicator light on the left of the laptop. Please help. A link to the picture of the problem area is attached.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b274/yaofengchen/53vf/DSC_4788.jpg
May 18th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Hi everybody!
I need to know does the keyboard from toshiba pro 6100 fits to toshiba tecra A2. If somebody knows, please mail me or replay my post on this website. My email: wisnia@postmaster.co.uk
May 14th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Thanks! This enabled me to repair my daughters computer.