http://www.laptopka.com Help and support for Toshiba laptops. Disassembly instructions, tips and tricks. Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:15:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.laptopka.com/2007/07/30/satellite-a10-a15-disassembly/ http://www.laptopka.com/2007/07/30/satellite-a10-a15-disassembly/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:09:29 +0000 cj2600 http://www.laptopka.com/2007/07/30/satellite-a10-a15-disassembly/ These both notebook models, Satellite A10 and Satellite A15 are similar, so you can use the same disassembly guide for both models.
Overheating is a very common issue with these notebooks. It happens because dust get trapped between the cooling fan and the heatsink. Fortunately, it is very easy to access the cooling fan and clean it up. All you have to do is remove the fan cover as it shown on steps 2 and 3 and then remove and clean the heatsink, as it shown on steps 5 and 6. Alternatively, you can leave the heatsink connected to the laptop and remove the cooling fan instead. After the heatsink (or the cooling fan) is removed, thoroughly clean both parts with compressed air.
If you are removing the heatsink, make sure to apply some thermal grease on the CPU before you assemble everything back together. If you install the heatsink without thermal grease, the notebook will overheat.
In order to remove the CD/DVD drive, you’ll have to remove two screws. One screw is located on the bottom of the laptop, close to the DVD drive. The second screw is located under the keyboard, as it shown on the step 13. After both screws are removed, just push the drive from the case.
Here are compete notebook disassembly instructions.

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