Taking apart Toshiba Satellite A60 or A65 laptop
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.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:14 am
what about replacing the memory card. ATI Mobility radeon 7000 IGP, I think it has gone bad.
Thanks,
Rob
August 7th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Rob Uhl,
Do you get garbled image on the internal and external screens? If yes, most likely happens because of a faulty memory chip. Toshiba Satellite A60 and A65 has shared memory – part of the main memory is used for video. The main memory is permanently soldered on the motherboard and if it goes bad, you’ll have to replace the entire motherboard.
Technically it’s possible to unsolder the faulty memory chip from the motherboard and replace it with a good one, but probably you cannot do it at home. You need special tools and professional soldering skills.
August 12th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
How do I access and upgrade the memory on the A65? I read about taking it apart, and I also find on many memory selling sites the exact type of memory I need to upgrade. What I am not finding is how to access the memory slot to install the unit.
August 12th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I am having incredible difficulty removing the last three or so screws from the bottom side of the computer (underneath where the battery usually is). Any tips on getting those little bastards out?
Also, I’m doing this because my fan is making this really weird noise, and sometimes it looks like it kind of pops off its little rotator and then stops spinning. I’m not sure how to fix it. Any tips?
August 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Metalmedic,
Toshiba Satellite A60/A65 has only one memory slot available for upgrades and you can easily access this slot from the bottom, just remove one screw and lift up the door (right in the middle). That’s it. Take a look at the step 2 in the disassembly guide, the memory module is shown in there.
August 13th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Spenser,
Most likely you’ll have to replace the fan, you’ll find the part number in the disassembly guide.
Actually, you can try to replace the CPU fan without taking the whole thing apart. I’ve done it a few times already.
You can see the fan if you remove the keyboard. The fan is secured to the cooling module by three silver screws. You can remove two of them very easy, but the third one is located under the plastic cover, so you’ll have to lift up the cover.
Remove screws located on the bottom under the cooling fan, so you can lift up the top cover just enough to access the third (hidden) screw.
After all three screws are removed, unplug the fan and replace it with a new one.
Be careful and proceed on your own risk.
August 19th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
URGENT PLEASE!
Hi, i recently took apart my Toshiba Satelite A65-S1065 to clean the mouse because of sticking (i made a big mistake because i found out that you can’t clean it) and when i put it back togeather, the touchpad and clickers right under it don’t work. Another thing is that when i checked device manager, the touchpad and mouse doesn’t come up! I am using my USB mouse atm and another thing… i broke a little tiny tiny piece of plastic with somekind of metal thing inside. i took out the unpluggable plug which has a red and black wire on it. i thought i had it fixed when my dad said he could solder it back togeather, but melted the whole thing. If you need more specific detail about the piece i broke, i will give you the information about it. it seems as if you don’t need the piece to actually run the system but maybe that’s the thing that you need to run the touchpad. ive tried reinstalling the driver and just redownloaded windows xp on my laptop.
SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME, I AM IN NEED AND IT IS VERY COSTY TO GET IT FIXED AT THE REPAIR STORES!
i will greatly appreciate advice,comments,and the answer…
August 19th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
oh, the touchpad was working after i reinstalled xp, but after i took it apart, it started not working. should i try reinstalling xp again?
August 29th, 2007 at 8:24 am
I have a A60 laptop, and have trouble with the power jack. I am now thinking, I will have a go and with your help try and replace it, but….. I took it to a shop first and they told me that it would cost too much and wouldnt be worth it, i had left the laptop with them, but seeing as that was all that was wrong with it i asked if I could come collect it and have it back.
Now that I am trying to open up the laptop, looking at your guide, removing the memory card, I have that slot on the base of laptop, but it seems empty, is it possible that it could be empty?? am I just being paranoid? Sorry If I am, but any help would be gratefully received. Thanks
Lel
August 30th, 2007 at 11:16 am
I follow This guide to take apart my A65, but at the STEP 4, after i opened the DVD drive i don’t know how to Carefully remove the DVD drive from my notebook to reach the hidden screws. Can someone help me, I need some detail to continue STEP 4, thank you.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
iolau Says:
August 30th, 2007 at 11:16 am
First make sure to remove the screw marked as B2 – This holds the drive in place. Insert the pin into drive to open the load tray, and extend the tray out fully. Grasp the metal rail of the load tray (Caution- do not use the plastic tray to pull the drive out as it may damage the drive), you should be able to gently pull the DVD/CD drive out.
October 11th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I have an A65-S126 completely torn down in hopes of replacing both RTC batteries as I have timing problems . But can find NO batteries . I’m stumped ..
The P/N # ref’s by toshiba is P000444350
Any insights ??
October 27th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hi,
First can I just say what an excellent site this is, I have been experiencing overheating problems with my Toshiba Equium A60 which is a very similar model to the Satellite A60.
I have totally cured the problem by cleaning the lint from the heatsink and would like to pass on the method I used. Follow steps 5 to 7 in the “TOSHIBA SATELLITE A60/A65 Taking apart laptop” guide to remove the keyboard. Having got this far it is easy to remove the fan from the heatsink assembly, two screws come out without problem the third is a little more tricky as it just catches on the keyboard support bracket. However there is just enough room to get the screw out and when replacing it you can just lever up the bracket enough to get the screw back in.
With the fan removed the finned part of the heatsink is accessible and the lint and dust can be brushed and vacuumed out.
This task is really quite straightforward and just requires a small crosshead screwdriver. Take care and good luck.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Not wishing to over use this comment area but whilst successfully cleaning the heatsink on my Equium A60 I noticed that the left hand hinge is broken. It has cracked right through along the edge which attaches to the base. Does anyone have detailed instructions on how to replace the hinges. I can obviously follow the useful guide on this site describing removal of the LCD on the Satellite A60/A65,but what is the minimum needed to remove the hinges from the base unit?
Thanks in anticipation.
Steve
October 27th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I would like to add to above post. Going back a few months I was quoted approx £250 to replace power jack on my laptop. Decided it wasnt worth it but decided to have a nose on the net and found your site. With your help i have replaced the jack, and fan and laptop is working again just perfectly. Costing me approx £25 instead of £250.
Many thanks to you, and your easy to follow instructions.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Thanks for help. Further tip on removing the DVD. (I had preformed all the above only to have the metal guides not want to come out. I then turned the laptop bottom up and the entire unit then slipped out very easily.
I am in the midst of seeing why the power on button isn’t working. Hopefully just a loose solder joint.(I have a low volt micro solder iron) If not and is a bad switch do you have part number for the switch?
Thanks!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Perhaps a tip on getting the final latches in the front loose so the top cover comes off. I have all bottom screws out DVD and hidden screws, keyboard off however, the top is held in seemingly by the two latches in the front. I have depressed them, pushed them toward the rear. essentially tried all I seem to sense will work to no avail.
Again I am trying to access the bottom of the on off switch.
Thanks again!
Bob
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:53 am
RE post # 17 by me. Never mind ? on getting the “hidden latches”. I turned on another light and saw that there were another 2 screws. SO I’ll be able to proceed and check out the on/off switch issue.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Lovely site – inspires confidence.
I was removing the DVD Rom on my A60 to replace with a DVD MultiWriter I bought on ebay. Key stage is remove the B2 screw that holds the DVD drive into its bay. Its at the back of the DVD accessible from underneath – next (east) of the RAM cover. Little LED torch extreamly useful to see things. Also see post #11
November 15th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Hi all!
My laptop (Satellite A60) overheats, so I wanted to blow off the dust. I removed the keyboard (as written in steps 5-8), but there was no dust there! I think, it’s somewhere deeper. Maybe something else should be removed from there (the fan, …). If you succeded (practically!) in this, please tell me what to do.
Thanks in advance.
November 20th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Hi, and thaks for all the information that you show us here.
My Satellite A60 – 682 Hard drive has become dead. I’m looking for some replacement but other 2.5” HD i have tryied don’t get recogniced by the BIOS i upgrade to 1.90 and still nothing.
Anybody knows were can i buy a HD for that computer?
Thanks a lot for the tutorial.
December 4th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Great article! This confirms what I already suspected about these laptops. Toshiba should issue a recall on A65.
For anyone else who has dead memory, I worked out a solution using Linux. It seems like Toshiba uses the additional storage first and then jumps to the onboard chip. So I started up Ubuntu with the “mem=380M” option and got it going. Just run MemTest to see where your problem is. You might be stuck with 250M or whatever. Still have the video problems however.
Also, question for cj2600: what would happen if I just removed one of the chips and didn’t replace it? Do you think it would run?
December 4th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Just saw this – comment #93.
Apparently removing the chips does work!
December 18th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
I followed the instructions that were given exactly, every step and i ended up breaking the laptop. I somehow “fried” the motherboard Just By Touching It, and now it will cost 250 dollars just to replace the motherboard, i will never listen to any idiot giving instructions on anything on the internet again. Beware, you may break something valuable and not even realize it.
Instructions: 0/100
December 29th, 2007 at 7:40 am
I broke my laptop a few months ago and i found this perfect website too late. I need to change my motherboard in Satelite A60-302, PSA60E-00J036G3, but i cant find part nummber for it. Could you anybody to help me how to get a part nummber?
January 4th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Hello and congrats for this great website.
I just received a pair of hinges to replace mine from Ebay but they don’t rotate, anyone have any idea why, I am missing something?
Cheers
L
January 9th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hi all
Just got this annoying Gericom laptop to work, finally. It had the infamous bad onboard RAM fault where one of the chips fails, causing instability. This can be heat related, in fact one or all of the chips can overheat noticeably in this failure mode.
Unfortunately, most if not all laptops do not allow you to disable onboard RAM, requiring an expensive motherboard replacement or SMD rework.
A simple fix however is to download the datasheet for the RAM chips, in this case Winbond W942516AH-75, and locate the CS or /CS line on pin 24. Connect this to Vdd via a resistor or wire link and all the onboard RAM should be disabled.
If this works but there are still odd memory faults but less frequently, try a lower speed module. If this works fine then remove all four bad chips, as they may be interfering with the data lines even with CS disabled and all should be well.
On this one, I found that 256MB PC2700 would fail but 128MB would work fine, am going to try the chip removal technique to see if this has any effect.
So far so good, although the laptop will now only work with a stick fitted.
Hope this helps some Toshiba/Gericom/Compaq/etc owners.
Regards, -A
January 18th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Hi all
What a great website. I have an equium a60 laptop and while reflashing the bios the computer shut down. now i have a very nice paperweight. After asking toshiba for there help they advised that all i could do is to replace the motherboard because they wont supply just a bios chip. Can anyone advise where i could get a bios chip from or is there a jumper setting i can try to see if the bios has a protected area so that this will alow me to load the protected area and then reflash the bios back to standered. Thanks for any help or advice..
peter.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:27 am
I’m having a few problems getting my keyboard off it doesn’t seem to keen on the idea…any ideas?
January 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hello, this is a great site! I have a problem that is stumping me. I thought I had an overheating problem with my Toshiba A65 S 1063. It would run for aprox 10 to 15 mins before the hard drive would stop seeking. shortly afterwards the computer would become unresponsive and I’d get the BSOD error and it would reboot. I tried blowing it out and got minuscule amounts of lint but it still did it. what I ended up doing was getting a new hard drive which solved both the rebooting and the supposed heating problem. Now the thing will run for hours without missing a lick, and the fan seems to cycle up and down properly as I increase and decrease work load. the problem is when I shut down and reboot it restarts multiple times, sometimes showing a BSOD error and dump, or the screen that says “sorry, windows has encountered an error” and gives me a choice of restart procedures. Even just logging off the network will produce a “windows has recovered from an error, send or don’t send” dialogue box when I log back on. It states that ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP is the cause, but everything else works fine. I’m inclined to think either the settings are wrong, or windows is loosing track of the chip somehow rather than the chip itself being bad as once it boots it performs flawlessly for hours until I shut it down again. This was a clean install of XP pro from a Toshiba factory technician’s restore disc specific to the A65 on a new hard drive. The clock never looses it’s setting so it isn’t the CMOS battery. I have installed SP3 to see if that helps and nada. I have downloaded the proper Omega drivers for the ATI chip, as the latest ATI drivers no longer support the Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP, but I would like to get a second opinion before doing anymore to it. Got any ideas? Thank you.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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?
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.
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!
March 22nd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Thanks for the guide. It was very helpfull.
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
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
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???
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 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 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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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 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 ???????
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.
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!
January 19th, 2009 at 4:27 am
I have managed to sucecessfully dismantle my Toshiba Satellite Pro A60, BUT, the cmos battery I was told to fit it is a CR1220 size.
I cannot find WHERE on the M/bo the battery goes and the only place that looks correct, currently has a sealed item in it which looks smaller that the CR1220 battery.!
Can anyone please confirm the correct Mo/bo battery size and it’s location on the board.??
Thanks in advance
Dee
April 14th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Dee, HV,
The CMOS battery is soldered to the motherboard.
You can see the battery in the disassembly guide on the step 17. It’s between the modem card and ATI chip.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Allen,
In Satellite A60/A65 laptops you should use PC2700 memory modules.
November 13th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Your guide dimantling the A60 laptop is excellent! my only grip is when i come to taking out the CD drive i’m not quite sure what i’m sposed to do to sucsessfully remove it. any help would be super!!! cheers.
December 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I have most of the screws out, but the ones hidden by the DVD drive, and the ones in the battery compartment seen to be screwed in with blue locktite. The are at least 7 screws I can’t get out. Any ideas?
December 28th, 2009 at 3:14 am
Hi guys,
Recently i removed my laptop to clean. After that i reassembled everything correctly but it says there is ‘No Drive’..I don know what to do now. How to put that hard disk can anyone tell me
December 28th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Vignesh,
Most likely the drive is not connected properly to the motherboard. Try reconnecting the hard drive. Make sure it’s plugged correctly.
I’ve seen this happening on Satellite A65 laptops before. Again, make sure the hard drive is connected correctly.
January 1st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
THANKS again for all your help, a life saver. I will be making a small PayPal donation.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Hallo, thanks for well-done guide.
I’m trying to repair this Satellite A60; it came to me without power supplier, but I’ve found a compatible one and it seems to work: CC IN LED lights up and battery starts to charge.
My problem is that this notebook starts for a while, heatsink begins to rotate, all LEDs light up normally but, suddenly everything turns off after 2-3 seconds.
I’ve observed that this machine has only a free RAM slot but, I can’t see any other RAM module (I don’t know if it has been removed before)… maybe is this the problem?
Could someone help me?
January 7th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Puppybarf,
This laptop has only one RAM slot. One memory module is integrated into the motherboard and it could be your problem. Onboard memory fails a lot on this model.
Here’s more help for troubleshooting problems in Satellite A60/A65 laptops:
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/04/27/toshiba-satellite-a60-a65-problems/
Go through the comments. You’ll find lots of useful info.
January 7th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Thanks cj, I’ll try everything I can.
March 8th, 2010 at 8:53 am
Hello,I want to run a game which need A128MB video card with support for Pixel shader 2.0 in my laptop Toshiba-Satellite A60 , but I receive a massage about upgarding , but I don’t know what is video card of my laptop and what should I do.
your reply is appreciated by me.thanks
March 20th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Thanks a lot for this guide, really useful. I broke the clip that secures the keyboard connector in place, it’s not obvious that you need to be so careful when dismantling it. It seems to just press back into place fine though, even without the little clips.
March 24th, 2010 at 3:55 am
ARRGH!
When STEP 8 says-
Disconnect the keyboard cable from the system board and remove the keyboard
************
you need to place a RED WARNING WARNING WARNING that you could easily damage and need a new motherboard…
****************
and not bury it in a “few things to know BEFORE” you dissasemble
this laptop.
at least the info is there, a tad LATE for me but hope to get the sticky tape repair to work.
MAN
that stankied
CAREFUL WITH THIS PEOPLE!!
March 25th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Dave,
check out this fix: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2009/11/17/fix-broken-keyboard-connector-on-laptop-motherboard/
March 26th, 2010 at 8:30 am
I was looking for information regarding the Equium A60 and how to take out the DVD drive to replace it. The Matshita drive failed in my old A60 which was otherwise in good working order, still with the restore discs, on Windows Home.
IF you need to replace the DVD drive on the Equium A60 you need only remove one screw with the number s8 stamped next to it on the underside of the laptop.
The Satellite a60 has 3 screws which might confuse you. But the Equium and Sat are different models!
Simply unscrew this screw and open up the drive door and pull it out. You need to unscrew the small holding plate – I used a 1.4mm flat head, (had no phillips) but be gentle.
Hope this information on the Equium a60 is useful to some.
April 16th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Hi everyone,
I have a question regarding a Toshiba A65-S126. I’m doing a DC Jack repair and when removing the fan cable from the motherboard, the connector broke off from the MoBo.
Soldering is possible. However, to much heat may ultimately cause a failure.
On this particular MoBo, there is only ONE cooling fan (for the heat sink and main CPU) but there are 2 connectors. From the pictures used to show how to take this unit apart, 2 cooling fans are shown (page 2, steps 12 & 13).
So here is the question…Can I use the second connector for the main CPU cooling fan? I have a disposable email address and I look forward to hearing from anyone that can help.
Thanks very much in advance,
Scott F.
May 15th, 2010 at 7:59 am
@Puppybarf… the problem could be the CPU fan. You can check it by removing the securing strip and lifting the keyboard (remove the 2 screws holding it in place) … no need to “detach” the keyboard. Just lift on one side (monitor side). Turn the power on and observe if the CPU fan is working. I just opened a Satellite A60 last night with the same symptom/sign as yours and I found out that the CPU fan is not working. it will not boot to protect the CPU from overheating.
August 8th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Just a word of warning- when removing the dvd drive , be sure that you use the correct screw size when refitting (b8) as if you use a longer screw you could finish up damaging the motherboard as the screw will touch the motherboard and can short out the keyboard so that the arrow button,and some on the right hand side will no longer function.
November 19th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Like entry #49, I too found this bushing the first time I turned the motherboard over and it fell out. It is about 1/4″ in diameter and about 1/2 inch long. I assume it helps support something when everything get screwed back together.
Any ideas as to where it goes? This is on a Toshiba A65.
I’m in the process of replacing the broken DC jack and am waiting for parts.
Great site by the way.
Thanks, for any help, Bruce
January 13th, 2011 at 2:40 am
Hi there,
How can I replace the back-up battery.
Where can I find it, on the motherboard?