Toshiba Satellite A60 and A65 used to be a very popular laptop a few years ago, many people still have these laptop. This guide will show you how to take apart these laptops.
I’ve seen many Satellites A60/A65 but it looks like all of them have very similar problems:
1. Laptop tends to overheat. In this case you can remove the keyboard and clean up the fan and heat sink with compressed air.
2. Onboard memory failure. Sorry guys, if that’s the case then you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
3. Power jack failure. This problem is fixable but you’ll have to take the whole thing apart and replace or resolder the power jack.
You can find more information about these common failures here.
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December 13th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Hi, Your instructions are quite good!
I am trying to find the CMOS battery without disassembling the whole laptop. I have gotten to step 6, and am trying to find the CMOS battery.
Thanks!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:50 am
Great website,
Totally noob at this kind of things, I have a A60 Model PSA60L series can you kindly show me how to upgrade the memory since it only have 256MB of RAM and I would like to add or replace it to around 1GB or more…
Besides that is there any chance of me knowing what type of RAM my laptop has? Because when I went to a computer shop the salesman told me first to know what type of RAM my laptop has…
Much obligued.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I have a good thing I have a big problem A/60 which embromo the window you put the disc that brought recupercion but I do not work, then format the disk with another window xp but I am not finish in 92 percent cut in the flow and Ashore I said he had no operating system that I ???????
September 16th, 2008 at 8:03 am
can anybody tell me what size are the 2 big screws that hold the lcd screen hinges to the laptop base please
September 11th, 2008 at 6:26 am
I have a Toshiba A60 and the DVD/CD burner isn’t working properly - it takes ages to burn a CD and when it does, I opnly hear the first few tracks clearly before a clacking sound comes in and then after a few more tracks it stops playing them altogether. What is going on? Anyone?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Just an addendum to the Memtest thing;
The UMA IGP reserved size is 64MB and memtest doesn’t test video RAM, just system RAM, which passes without errors. However, I too have the Radeon instability which leads me to think that the on-board memory has failed but at a reserved address for IGP.
Removing the Radeon driver leads to a boot everytime and system works ok. Obviously installing the driver loads the reserved memory and causes a failure, rebooting in safe and giving the error message.
Any tools that can test the reserved area?
Oh, BIOS > ALL doesn’t work on this laptop.
August 9th, 2008 at 7:03 am
This guide is great but when I was taking apart my A65 I found a a small bushing about 1/4 inch long where does this go. Thank You
July 20th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I was following the guide however i was stuck on the removing the DVD drive step….there are no screws.
Any hint on how to remove it? My purpose only was to clean the fan of dust.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:54 am
thanks for the guide to take apart my toshiba equium a60-181. it now sounds like new and not like an aircraft taking off! i do have a problem though, i took the dvd drive apart thinking that was the way to take it out only to have a small piece of metal and spring fall out. any chance you could put a picture or send me by email a picture of the dvd drive opened so that i know where these pieces go. many thanks again.
June 27th, 2008 at 7:13 am
I also have a Toshiba M65 that is failing to boot as has been described in many places. I just talked to Toshiba and was told that “they have had problems with that motherboard”. Ofcourse, they also take no responsibility for selling a defective product. Basically, I am out $1000 for buying their crap. When are people going to wake up and do something about these thieves. Isn’t there a attorney out there that got screwed too? It’s time for customers to unite and file class action suits to get some justice. Count me in!
June 17th, 2008 at 12:42 am
now my keyboard doesnt work it lights up when you turn on the laptop but then when everything is loaded it doesnt do anything
June 16th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Jose Lopez,
1. Try enabling the touch pad with Fn+F9 keys. Hold down Fn and press on F9 to enable or disable the touch pad.
2. Make sure the touch pad cable is properly connected to the motherboard.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
My touchpad doesnt work after I open my laptop because the cd drive wouldnt work so I open it. But since then I unable to use my touchpad. Any solution???
May 16th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I deleted the sound soft wear by mistake and can not get it back i downloaded the driver and nothing, i used the backup disk that came with the lap top and still nothing. can anyone out there help?
Tom
April 7th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Hi everyone,
hopefully someone can help me with this problem i have. I have a a65-s1065, and im having serious booting issues. it will not boot from a cd because the boot protocool is set to PXE. which i learned is not supposed to be like that, so thats my first question, how do i set it to something else? and i also got a tip to remove my CMOS battery or my RTC battery…problem is it doesn’t seem to be anywhere. so if anyone as any insights on how to fix this problem please help and leave me and email at cheunit07@Hotmail.com
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Thanks for the guide. It was very helpfull.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I have a couple of problems regarding my A65.
a.) How do you tighten the LCD hinges?
b.) The PCMCIA card eject button popped out, and I may have broken it while trying to put it back. I have a wireless card in the slot right now and I can’t eject it. How do I fix this? Is it possible to get another eject button and just pop it right in?
Thanks in advance for the replies. This site is great!
February 11th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
The guides are great but I can’t find my modle. I am have screen issues and I see some that are close but not quite there. I can find a modle2435-s255 on the bottom and can’t seem to locate the modle on the toshiba web site. please help if you can?!? you could just email the info need if you don’t want to put up a page or please tell me where I can find it on your site. Thank you very much and keep up the great work you guys do.
January 27th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I have an A60 that the display does not work, otherwise all works fine. I can view if I attached an external monitor. Dead screen or bad video cable? Any suggestions how to check?
January 24th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Thanks alot for your site. I ve not seen any that has what I ve just seen on this. I do appreciate the help. I am going to bookmark and be back more often.
January 21st, 2008 at 12:53 am
Hi
I have a Toshiba Laptop A65 my USP ports stoped working when i plug a devise in it says the device not recognized. Also when i plug in my ipod it says device not recongnized but it will charge it.
I was wander if I get a PC card with USP ports on it if it will fix my problem.
Thank you
January 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
O.K., The next morning I started the A65 cold and on battery only and the BSOD is back. Lets get that class action suit going, it looks like I need a new board, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for it myself. (sigh) Mark R.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:11 am
Re: A65 With ATI Radeon mobility 7000IGP error.
I was tending to agree with you and attempted to get memtest, but for some reason I can’t get it to work. But I have no flickering or vertical lines in my display, and no errors while running high demand programs, so I un-installed the ati graphics driver from the add remove programs and then let it reinstall from windows (not from disc, but from the C: drive), it has been working fine ever since, and I have been turning it on and off all night and watching streaming video for hours with no ill effects. I noticed the ramdacs were listed as 350mhz before the change, and are now listed as 400mhz and window transitions open and close much smoother. Shut down and reboot is much faster too. I’m now of the opinion the drivers on the restore disc were updated ones and not compatible with my particular unit. An A65 does come in many configurations. I will however keep the onboard ram in mind if I start having trouble again.
It seems to me the A65 and others are a design flaw, and a class action suite should be started against Toshiba. I would certainly get in line for that, even if all I got was a new motherboard. It is wrong to make so many people pay for their poor judgment. Thank you again for your time and quick response, I guess I’m one of the lucky ones! (said with fingers crossed) Mark R.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hello,
I have problem with toshiba satellite A60-205,
Evntually the sound drive is not working any more. I could not listen to music.
Also, I have problem with weird noise and it over heats.
Any suggestion is welcomed.
January 19th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Mark,
Sounds like you have bad RAM. If I remember correctly, Windows has some protection against failing RAM in the operating system. However, it doesn’t have access to this protection when starting up or shutting down. If you have a working CD burner, you should definitely download and run this program (it’s free to burn yourself and it will not hurt anything):
http://www.memtest86.com/
Also make sure you pull out any RAM from the expansion slot that you might have added to be sure. If it shows you have errors in your RAM, you’re basically screwed. The easiest thing you can do is not waste any more time with it and just buy a new laptop. And remember, don’t buy Toshiba!
On a follow-up note, I tried pulling the RAM off the motherboard but I did a shoddy job. I wasn’t careful and wound up scraping up stuff and causing shorts. So it died.