Opening a Toshiba Satellite P205 laptop and removing the motherboard
These instructions explain how to open a Toshiba Satellite P205 laptop case and remove the motherboard.
Removing the speaker cover could be tricky. In order to separate the speaker cover from the top cover you’ll have to use a guitar pick (or something similar).
ATTENTION: The same heatsink covers two chips - the northbridge and the processor. You cannot use regular thermal grease for the northbridge, you have to use special thermal grease. Here’s the part number for this grease: K000051370
For the processor you can use the following grease: X-23-7762-01
June 18th, 2009 at 3:00 am
there are so many screws, i’ve managed to put it all back together and i still have like 20 extra… are they important? i mean, as long as my motherboard doesnt wobble, its fine right? :p is there some kind of screw guide to help?
June 9th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I got the fan for the P205 from National Parts Depot @ 800-524-8338. Talk to Maria @ ext. 2321 and she will fix you up!
DavE
May 6th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Drummond,
In order to replace the fan you’ll have to remove the motherboard as it explained in the guide I linked to.
Check out this part number: K000048100
This is the CPU fan for Satellite P200, P205, P205D, X205. Should be fine for you, but just in case contact the seller and make sure it fits your model.
May 5th, 2009 at 3:11 am
The fan on my P205 is just about dead. Does anyone know a part number for it or the difficulty involved in trying to replace it?
March 28th, 2009 at 11:24 am
From what I remember to remove the top silver cover DO NOT JUST USE FORCE you will only maybe break it. I found out I forgot to take out a screw, don’t remember if it was my mistake or misread the guide. So before you if you’re trying to rip off the top cover and it will simply not give, you’re probably missing a screw (most likely by the top LCD side). This was a big hoop I encountered because then I got frustrated and tried to rip it off out of frustration but don’t make the same mistake, check the screws, they should come out.
March 27th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Very Confused,
Did you go through all four pages of the disassembly guide?
March 27th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I experienced the same problem of Veryconfused.
There must be some screws inaccessible or invisible.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:21 am
This tutorial seems to be skipping a step. After removing all the screws and wires, the top cover assembly cannot be removed because something is causing it to be bolted down near the top. I think it’s caused by a couple screws and if they are then they are completely inaccessible or otherwise not visible on the surface.
March 20th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
to remove the lcd screen you have to use a lot of power to remove the bezel first