Removing internal parts from a Toshiba Satellite A135 laptop
This step-by-step disassembly guide explains how to remove and replace major parts from a Toshiba Satellite A135 laptop.
Very often I get the same question about connecting the wireless card antenna cables to the wireless card. Witch cable connects to witch connector on the card? There are two antenna cables connected to the card. The white cable goes the main connector and the black one to the auxiliary connector. But it should really matter because both antennas are identical.
February 3rd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Buy a new one!
January 21st, 2010 at 11:42 pm
My Toshiba satellite a135’s processor is not getting heated.Will any one help me.
Thanks in advance
January 12th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Need to replace magnetic switch in Toshiba satellite A135-S4487 I think it is located in the hinges. How can I remove the hinges to get to the magnetic switch?.
January 9th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Just wanted to say thank you to the author(s) for putting this information together. I was able to fix my laptop by replacing the keyboard, DVD drive and upgrade the memory. I spent about 160.00 in parts and now have a laptop that will run for another 3 – 5 years.
Thanks again and I do appreciate the information.
January 3rd, 2010 at 4:40 pm
CJ,
I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4447 and my situation is very much like the one described by Sunny in post #29.
In my case, I bought a Western Digital “MyPassport Essential” 500GB external hard drive with the intention of backing up my laptop before upgrading from Vista to Windows 7.
Upon connecting the USB-powered drive, it asked me to update to the latest verions of firmware and WD SmartWare software (1.1.1.6 to 1.2.0.7). Both patches were successfully applied and I was able to reboot and then use the WD SmartWare software to back up all docs for two separate profiles. At this point, I tried to unmount the external drive before disconnecting, but it refused 5-6 different times, saying some apps were still using the files on the drive.
I then used the Windows shut down command, and everything powered down normally. I disconnected the USB cable from the drive to the laptop and went about my business. A couple of hours later, I tried to start up the Toshiba laptop (without the WD drive connected), but it was dead.
The blue power button light comes on, as do the A/C, power and battery LEDs on the front of the laptop. The optical drive blinks and has power to eject and even spin up inserted discs. However, the laptop does not POST, and neither the fan nor hard drive spin up. No video displays on the screen.
I’ve tried removing the battery to start on A/C power only, and also disconnecting the A/C and trying to start on battery power only. I’ve tried inserting the Toshiba recovery CD and pressing “C” but of course, there’s no BIOS screen to wait for. Nothing works.
Is the motherboard toast? A Google search turns up replacement motherboards costing at least $150-200, if that’s what the problem is. Meanwhile, I was at Costco today and saw a Dell Inspiron for $399, including MS Office Student Edition!
Thanks in advance for your ideas or suggestions.
Regards,
Phil
January 1st, 2010 at 6:03 pm
I have a Toshiba satellite A137-S2346 and I was told that the motherboard had burned out and now I have to buy one and every one that I have seen so far have been over 100 bucks and I feel that if im going to spend that much I should just add some more money to it and get a new laptop please tell me what I should do because I got the laptop from rent-a-center and now that I own it they want me to pay them a monthly fee to insure it and im not giving them anymore of my money times are to hard!