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
December 25th, 2009 at 8:30 am
P205-S6327:
AC adapter and battery lights OK. Push power button lights
the “On” indicator, but nothing on screen, only disk activity
is the CDROM init (couple flickers). No beeps or blink codes
on lights.
Same on AC only or battery only.
Press-hold power button powers off.
Tried reseating and replacing memory.
Does not light the Satellite logo or wireless indicator.
I’m leaning towards disassembly to reseat CPU.
Any other ideas/tricks?
Thanks.
December 18th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
its me again i’m back i forget to let you know what model number its a satellite a215-s4697
December 18th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
well i need help with my toshiba laptop my problem when i turn on my Laptop the screen backlight stopped working. If you look very closely on the screen you will see it but not very well i change my screen nothing same problem i think is inverter still not working what i suppose to do i need some advice anyone can help me manufact when i put in external monitor scree is work properly
Thx for you advice
November 16th, 2009 at 5:46 am
I’ve been using it with the bottom propped up and a portable fan blowing thru/by it, but you’re right that I don’t know how much air those “coolpad fans” move.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
silvernblack,
I really doubt that the cooling pad will help. I don’t think that it can keep the CPU cool enough.
November 15th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Yep….I was afraid of that. Bummer. I think I’ll go buy one of them “under the laptop” fan units. I really just use it on a desk anyway.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:39 am
silvernblack,
Apparently, the circuit which controls the cooling fan has failed.
If you want your fan to operate properly, you’ll have to replace the motherboard. Or….if you have nothing to lose, you can do this.
Take a look at the fan and find out how much voltage in needs. Using a voltmeter, find out where you can get this voltage on the motherboard and solder the fan directly to these spots.
The fan will run all the time, but at least you can make it work without replacing the motherboard. Proceed on your own risk.
November 15th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Well, I had the fan fail on my p205-s6347 and I was able to use the instructions to successfully replace it. BUT the new fan doesn’t run either. Any hints?
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
im reformating my toshiba laptop satelite p205.i have the recovery disc and the os.i inserted the 1st cd it was sucessfully done it said finished so i inserted my vista as my os it was ok but my problem are the drivers.i inserted my 2nd cd as to recover my drivers but i dont know what to do then.should it be inserted after my 1st recovery cd?can you give me the sequencing of these cd?
August 31st, 2009 at 10:17 am
I just received a laptop from a friend who spilled a small amount of wine on it. P205-S8810 is the model. I recently took the entire laptop apart and cleaned anything that looked “dirty”. There is MINOR corrosion on the spot where the touchpad plugs into the motherboard, but the connection appears to still be ‘fine’. I try to power on the laptop and everything sounds like it is going fine but the video card
fan stops after about 3 seconds and then everything sounds like it is in a an idle stage and does nothing. Nothing shows up on the monitor and nothing appears on an external screen either. Everything else appears to be functional. I’m just wondering, what would exactly cause the initial boot to stop and most likely fail post and nothing appear on the screen at all. If it is the motherboard then I am willing to spend ~$300 for a new motherboard and replace it… But if it is something else that could be fixed by replacing a chip or re-soldering a connection that would be great. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
August 12th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
brian king,
Simply unsnap the key cap with your finger nail and install it on another keyboard. Check it out: A key fell off the laptop keyboard. Fixing the problem.
August 12th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
artmcbeth,
How it doesn’t work? The key will not pop up after you push on it or it moves properly but will not type anything?
If the key is sticky, you can try removing the key cap and cleaning underneath with alcohol. If the key doesn’t type anything, most likely you’ll have to replace the keyboard.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I have one key that does not work. (Spilled coffee).
Any suggestions on cleaning. I looked at the disassebly but I don’t know how far to go for cleaning the keyboard.
August 6th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Dear laptopka
Thanks your site is AWESOME.
I wish you had instructions for just REMOVING THE KEYBOARD, I ended up taking off alot more then I needed to + I dropped a screw inside, that required taking apart the computer even more.
I was hoping you might know of a good way to replace the enter key? I want to remove a key without harming it and then put it on another keyboard.
Thanks for your time
Yours truly
Brian
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