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
August 29th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Frank Wawrz,
I posted a link to the laptop disassembly guide in the first sentence. Follow the link and read through the guide. You’ll have to go though all 30 steps, remove the motherboard and only after that replace the fan.
Here’s the last page of the guide: http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/toshiba-satellite-p205/removing-motherboard-4.htm
Take a look at the step 30, it shows the fan.