Finding notebook spare parts
Here’s a good way to find inexpensive spare parts for your laptop or notebook computer. In most cases laptop parts are not interchangeable (except memory and hard drives) and it’s very important to use a correct part for repair or your computer will not work properly. You should search for spare parts by the part number.
1. Finding part number.
SparePartsWarehouse can help you to find the part number. On this website you can search for notebook parts by vendor. You’ll find part numbers for Compaq, HP, IBM, Sony and Toshiba notebooks.
Select your vendor/model line, choose laptop series and choose the laptop model. After that you can search through the entire list of parts for your laptop or just use the filtering tool to find a particular part. Each part usually has an original part number and an alternative part number. You can use either number. Now, when you know the part number, you can start searching for the best price.
2. Fining inexpensive parts.
First of all, try searching here. You can find a very inexpensive brand new part. If there are no new parts, you can buy a used one. If you cannot find this part on eBay, try searching by the part number on Google. Most likely the search will bring you many results and you will find what you are looking for.
Finally, when you receive the part, you can use laptop service manuals to install it.
UPDATE:
I just started a new project - free laptop repair related classifieds.
You can see this site here: Any Notebook Part
If you are selling new or used laptop parts, used laptops, you can place your ad on this site. It’s free.
You can request parts too, maybe somebody has them for sale.
Entry Filed under: Replacement Parts
August 15th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Toshiba Satellite M45-S331. I opened the laptop, to fix something and closed it back the best i could with all the little cables and when i start the computer, it says sound device not installed. So my guess is i forgot something and I need to know where is the sound card, or something related to the sound device.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Abe,
You can use drives with the following Toshiba part numbers: V000050810, V000053170, V000053620, V000053690. All these drives are interchangeable. Google the part number.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:51 am
I have a Toshiba laptop M45-S351 Model PSM40U 01X001, and the cd/dvd combo drive has gone. I took it out and it had listed Model no. UJ-830B and part no. G8CC00021410. I checked on SparePartsWarehouse for the same computer model, and got different model no. and different part numbers. What am I supposed to do?
Thanks alot.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I have a couple of flex cables in my HP Pavilion that are bad. Where can I buy replacement ffc (flat flex cables)?
July 24th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Michelle,
You definitely can replace individual keyboard keys and I posted instructions here: A key fell off the laptop keyboard. Fixing the problem.
July 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Where can I find individual keys for my laptop? I need to replace two of the arrow keys which I accidentally melted
When I take the top of the key off and press the button bit underneath it still works fine. Just need the actual keys.