How to take apart and repair Toshiba laptops yourself

The following laptop step-by-step disassembly manuals I have created myself. You can use them if you have a Toshiba laptop and want to repair or upgrade it yourself. You shouldn’t disassemble your laptop if you have no experience with computers because you can easily damage it. Also, you shouldn’t open it if the laptop is still under warranty. I’m still developing new laptop teardown guides and my goal is to add new guides every week. If you do not see a manual for your model, most likely I will add it later. Stay tuned.

Toshiba Satellite disassembly guides and manuals:

Toshiba Tecra series disassembly guides and manuals:

Toshiba Portege series disassembly guides and manuals:

Toshiba Qosmio disassembly guides:

I’m still working on creating new disassembly guides. For more information please visit my Toshiba laptop disassembly site.

 

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288 Responses to “How to take apart and repair Toshiba laptops yourself”

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    cj2600 Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    Jon,
    I don’t have this laptop in front of me but I believe that you have to pull the touchpad ribbon cable from the connector if there is not bracket to unlock the connector.
    You install it back the same way, just push the cable inside the connector.
    Be careful, work slowly

  2. 239
    Jon Says:
    April 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Hi there

    I have a Toshiba Satelite P100 - 188 PSA3E, Ive been trying to disconnect the touchpad from motherboard but cant see how i can, its not got no bracket to lift off, and theres another cable next to it which looks like it should just pull out but dont? any one know how??

    cheers
    jon

  3. 238
    cj2600 Says:
    April 10th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    manila,
    It’s possible if you know how to unsolder defective chips and replace them with new chips. Very few technicians can do that.
    Check out this thread dedicated a Toshiba Satellite A65 laptop. This model also has onboard memory and it fails a lot. Some people (comment 93 for example) were able to physically remove the onboard memory and use the laptop only with the added module. I’m not sure if it will work for R100 but the idea is the same. Do it on your own risk, only as a last resort. You can destroy the motherboard.

  4. 237
    manila Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Hello,
    do you know if it’s possible to replace the original RAM (the one on the motherboard) of Toshiba R100 (not the added module) ? Mine is faulty..
    Thanks

  5. 236
    cj2600 Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

    Mark,
    This one:

    From cold the unit works fine but after 5 mins warm up the graphics gradually deteriorate and eventually all will stop working.

    and this one

    I notice if I reboot, the BIOS start up characters on screen then become very confused with totally random characters, and the XP Home welcome splash has degraded.

    sound like a problem with the graphics card. I don’t think that you can fix it, you’ll have to replace the whole motherboard.

  6. 235
    cj2600 Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    Sean,
    It’s possible that there is nothing wrong with the video chip on the motherboard. Anyway, you cannot fix the video chip because it’s integrated into the motherboard, you’ll have to replace the whole motherboard.
    Here’s what I would try before replacing the motherboard:
    1. Reconnect the video cable on both ends, on the motherboard and on the LCD screen, just to make sure it’s not a connection relate issue.
    2. Replace the video cable. From my experience the video cable on a Toshiba Satellite P20/P25 laptop is not very reliable and fails a lot. Replacing the video cable may fix your problem.
    If 1 and 2 do not help, it’s related either to the motherboard or the LCD screen. Most likely to the LCD screen.

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    Mark Says:
    March 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Toshiba Satellite M30-304 (UK) with onboard embedded GO5200 graphics card. From cold the unit works fine but after 5 mins warm up the graphics gradually deteriorate and eventually all will stop working. Unit gets pretty hot so I replaced the fan because it was working but making loud noises. No improvement other than now quiet. I notice if I reboot, the BIOS start up characters on screen then become very confused with totally random characters, and the XP Home welcome splash has degraded. Has reduced my laptop time to 5 minutes usage lol! Is it fair to say my motherboard is toast? Thanks for any input - great site!

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    sean Says:
    March 9th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    My P20 Toshiba screen has all of a sudden had millions of lines all over it - The VGA Out put works as I can connect it to a remote screen and watch it - how do I repair the VGA onboard chipÉ

  9. 232
    cj2600 Says:
    March 6th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    Geoff,
    The disassembly guide for a Toshiba Satellite A105 at www.irisvita.com should be close enough.

  10. 231
    Geoff Says:
    March 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    I need to replace the HDD on my Toshiba Satellite A100
    Model PSAA9A-OCU004.
    Can someone guide me to a service manual that is similar to my model?

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