Comments on: How to disassemble Toshiba Satellite P300 or P305 laptop

By: Alan Dragicevich

Alan Dragicevich — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:26:46 +0000

Hey there,

Recently I bought a second hand Toshiba P300 for my girlfriend, and she accidently had the fan air vent blocked so now the fan doesn’t work at all. So I thought that I would just buy another fan and heatsink, so I did. I Replaced the fan with the new one, but the fan still does not work! Is there any other reason for this?

Thanks

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:52:42 +0000

Great Guide but…………
I reassembled my Equium P300-16T and now have no lights for HD activity, Charging state, Media control (pause, play, fast forward etc) no Mouse Pad or mousepad illumination, no built in speaker.
All that illuminates is “Equium” bottom right case and “Power” top right of case.
Does anyone know what I have not reconnected correctly?
It must be one of the 3 connectors under the key board….but which one?
Thanks in advance

By: dj truth

dj truth — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:14:37 +0000

Hello
I have a P305D-S8828 Toshiba Sattalite Pro. I have never had any issues with my laptop until I stuck a sprint air card in the USB and as soon as I installed the software, my LCD went black. Now it works off and on but most of the time it just boots up and you see the Toshiba screen and the little windows icon screen but it never gets to the log in screen and if it does when I log in, it goes black. Any ideas if this could be the mother board or if I can change the Video card. I did do the toshiba disks (boot back to factory out of box) thing, but that didnt help anything. Please help.

By: George S

George S — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:01:01 +0000

Tim,

had the same problem, black LCD screen. It appeared that I had bent a couple of pins while putting back the LCD connector. Ended up cutting a away some of the plastic of the male connector to be able to straighten the pins with a couple of needles and a micro screwdriver. I bit of a hassle, but eventually everything worked out fine,

George S

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:19:00 +0000

For those wondering on the keyboard cable clip (P300) – the black section flips up towards the screen.

so if you slide your thumb nail between the cable and the black section of clip, then lift up, it should flip up.

And yes, i learnt this after breaking my clip

also, after reassembly, now no power seems to be getting to the system (neither through battery or adapter). – anyone with any tips?

By: Barleone

Barleone — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:04:57 +0000

[q][b]Barleone said:[/b](/#comment-224929)
What if I add a (very) little Arctic Silver on the pads? I figure that will improve the contact and therefore improve the release of heat. Right?[/q]
[q][b]cj2600 said:[/b]
I wouldn’t do that.[/q]
Can you give me a particular reason why not? I cannot think of a reason why I wouldn’t, but maybe I’m overlooking a few risks because I’m quite a n00b on these matters. That’s why I’m asking you again, I want to know the possible risks.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:07:29 +0000

How do you remove the keyboard, you say to unlock but we are unable to figure out how to unlock otherwise great tutorial.

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:27:51 +0000

I’m havin the Same problem as tim. I’ve re assembled it all but it’s just the screen that doesn’t work. I’ve plugged a HD cable into it shows the display on the external screen but not on the laptop screen

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:58:35 +0000

I did remove the mother board to access the fan but i did not remove the CPU. Both memory modules are both installed correctly.

By: cj2600

cj2600 — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:37:34 +0000

Tim,

I followed the directions exactly. So that i could access my cooling fan to clean it out. However, after i put it back together my computer will not boot up. All the lights come on and the fan starts and the cd drive starts up, but that’s it the screen remains black and it does not boot up.

Make sure both memory modules seated correctly.
Did you remove the CPU? Make sure the CPU is seated correctly and the socket is LOCKED.