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.
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May 24th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
Hi I am a local tech at a primary school (Findon primary in Australia)and the school has a number of optima G200N series laptops. I am trying to source a repair manual for them as they keep constantly having keyboard and power plug issues and its costing a fortune to keep sending back or repair when I could simply replace the keyboard in them my self and maybe fix other things. I am hoping you can direct me as to where I can purchase a repair manual. Regards chris.
I am not sure if this is the right spot to send this message from but cant see any other areas to ask from.
May 28th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Chris,
I’m not familiar with this model, cannot help you with the repair manual for this notebook. I don’t think that replacing the keyboard on Optima notebook will be much different then replacing the keyboard on any other laptop. Take a look at HP, Dell, Toshiba, IBM service manuals, maybe this will give you an idea of how to swap the keyboard.
August 30th, 2007 at 2:10 am
Hi Chris, try http://www.3manuals.com
They were able to find a service manual for me for an older Toshiba laptop that I couldn’t find anywhere, the cost was less than $10 for which I was very impressed.
Good luck!
October 18th, 2007 at 10:52 am
Dear Sir,
Pls. let me know the price and stock availability for below Notebook TFT displays.
1. TOSHIBA A135-S2386 ( P154W01 (TL)(D4) 04
2. TOSHIBA M40X ( K154WA05215L105513H00001530 04
3. TOSHIBA M45 04
4. TOSHIBA A105 04
6. TOSHIBA M70 04
7. TOSHIBA A205 04
8. TOSHIBA P205 04
9. TOSHIBA U205 04
10. TOSHIBA U305 04
11. TOSHIBA TECRA A6 04
12. TOSHIBA TECRA A8 04
13. TOSHIBA A100 04
14. TOSHIBA QOSMIO F30 02
15. TOSHIBA P105 04
16. TOSHIBA PORTAGE R200 02
17. TOSHIBA P100 02
18. TOSHIBA L30 02
19. HP PAVILION DV2000 02
Awaiting for your prompt response to place the order.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Franklin,
I don’t sell notebook screens or any other parts.
November 29th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
I need to repair broken hinges on my Toshiba notebook
satellite A10 model # PSA10C-035WM.
Is it possible for you to advise how to fix this and where I can get the repair parts (Hinges).
Thanks
December 1st, 2007 at 12:05 am
Mike,
Here are disassembly guides for Toshiba laptops and also guide for your model. It could be helpful to remove the top cover, as it shown on the step 18.
Also, check out instructions for replacing hinges on a Satellite A20 laptop. It’s a different model, but general steps will be the same. You’ll figure out if you carefully read through the disassembly guides.
Now about hinges. Looks like you have a Canadian laptop and I’m not sure witch hinges you should use. I can find part number for units sold in the USA and most likely they are interchangeable with Canadian models, but I’m not sure witch part number to use.
Take a looks on the laptop base under the battery. Can you see letter “S” or “C” stamped on the plastic base. Maybe you can see it somewhere on the bottom of the laptop base, not under the battery? Let me know.
December 28th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I have a Toshiba Satellite P35-S611 and it’s LCD display has many
white stripes on the left side.
How can I repair it
December 29th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Jenel,
If you have stripes only on the part of the LCD screen and the rest of the screen works fine then most likely you have a problem with the screen. You’ll have to replace the screen in this case.
Here’s another post related to troubleshooting laptop video.
January 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 pm
toshiba satellite pro psaace-001009Ar model name plsssssssssss i m tired to search the product
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Zahid,
psaace-001009Ar is not a laptop sold in the US. Sorry, I cannot help you with the part number. Maybe somebody else can.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:14 am
Dear Authorized
We have need Laptop spare parts like lcd inverter, mainboard, lcd
do you have this spare parts.
March 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Help!! I need a replacement laptop top cover for Sony Vaio PCGGRT100P
Thank you,
March 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I would like to know how do you fix the space bar of a laptop that I accidently took off while I was typing? I tried to put it back, but there are these two white aparatus that makes the space bar go up and down as you hit it that wouldn’t go in its places.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Richard Santiago,
Take a look at this post:
A key fell off the laptop keyboard. Fixing the problem.
It can help.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:22 am
i have a hp pavillion dv 5000 notebook which the letters
e/r/t/n need replacing, can you help.
212-780-2138
May 31st, 2008 at 2:20 pm
David,
You can replace individual keyboard keys as I explained in this post.
But in your case it would make sense to replace the whole keyboard.
You can find a new keyboard for HP Pavillion dv5000 series laptops here for about $20-30.
Search for the keyboard replacement instructions in these service manuals.
June 7th, 2008 at 1:00 am
i need help with finding a video card go8600 or a 7600 for my lap top it is a alienware m5700
June 11th, 2008 at 4:26 am
I had a key come off and this guide helped me greatly. Thank you for your time and effort on this website.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:43 am
I have an old Ti Apple Power Book and someone splashed a lbit of carrot juice on the keyboard. Sopping it up immediately, and using Klean spray/clothes saved all keys except the Command key. Bummer! It’s a key I use a lot!
I’ve removed the “Apple key” and the space bar key cleaned both keys and the surrounding area underneath these keys and reseated them. But I can’t get that ever so handy “Command” key to work.
The 3 parts that the key covers seemed to work when I had it uncovered like those of other working keys, but there’s no response when I use that key in connection with other keys i.e. Force Quit sequence, etc. Seems like a waste to spend $80.00 because of this one key. Any ideas what I can do to salvage this situation — can’t afford a newer laptop right now.
Thanks for replies.
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.
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.
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)?
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 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 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.
October 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I need the cd boot start up for the toshiba satellite A10 model # PSA10C-035WM.
Please Help
October 29th, 2008 at 6:33 am
i have a toshiba sattelite A135- S 4467 psadou-03m00p
i was told motherboard bwent out i need part number for motherboard so i can find a replacement thank you
October 30th, 2008 at 11:29 am
wen i first got my laptop it had a start button but iv presed summet nd now it doest have 1 why not? what have i got :S ?
January 7th, 2009 at 7:45 am
I have parts from and old Toshiba Satellite 1115. Everything but the harddrive is available. Hinges finally gave up, other wise working great hated to see it go. If interested let me know what part your= need.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
I need a replacement keyboard for my Optia Centoris v662 laptop. Can anyone help me find where I can purchase this from.
Ta
January 22nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Great site. Thank you.
I have an older A75-S229. I have both the overheating problem and the static speaker problem. I manage though and have some new issues.
Apparently, my DVD/CD burner has gone out. I decided to buy an external DVD burner (Memorex 20x Dual). I took it back because I could not get it running. The device showed up in device manager, but I had no way of loading the driver. The memorex website was less than helpful with a driver download. Anyway, I may just buy a replacement Mashita internal drive.
When I do this, I’d like to increase the RAM. I can’t find what kind of memory to buy. What is the max size and type to buy?
I will greatly appreciate your help.
John West
Old guy and returning college student
February 12th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
We had a young student looking for a Lasier Diode from a DVD Burner that he needs to build a science project for school. Thought maybe you could lead me in a direction that we could help this youngster out.
Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions.
Regards
Amy Anderson
Kimball Electronics
March 31st, 2009 at 9:49 pm
so i just looked up on the spareparts website and found that my toshiba a105 has 3 different inverter boards to choose from. i was wondering if it would be compatible with all 3 or the exact same one from my laptop? cause the one i bought on ebay said that it would work with any a105 series and i found it to be 1 of the 3 boards listed but still differs from mine which is also in the list.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Michael,
Give me the model number for your Satellite A105 laptop and I can look up the inverter part number for you. The model number is located on the same sticker with the serial number.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Forgot to mention.
If you have your inverter board removed, you can find the part number on the inverter.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:15 pm
ok. my model number is PSAA8U – 0LH02K. the inverter my laptop came with is 7312S(2) but the one i bought and received is a 7312S(3). i just used the parenthesis to distinguish the number that is different on the parts. when i compared the two boards they looked nearly identical but some of the black boxes were slightly moved to rotated. when i plugged in the new board it did work but then died so i assumed that it is actually the backlight that is at fault
March 31st, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Michael,
Looks like you got the right one.
Toshiba part number is: V000101780 (NEC/Tokin 7312S3) This inverter is backward compatible with the old one.
Yep, as I mentioned in the different thread, it’s either a defective inverter or there is a problem with the backlight lamp.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:29 pm
alright thanks for all your help. i was so excited that i would be able to get my laptop working but i guess ill have to wait another two weeks. thanks again.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Welcome to the laptop repair business! That’ how it works.
April 5th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Hello,
I am new to this site and saw the post from Jerry in January about a Satellite 1115 for parts. I need an LCD screen as my darn dog knocked into it and it spiderwebbed. If you can, please let me know if you still have it and how much you would want for it. My email is ricem__1973 AT hotmail.com.
Thanks,
Michael
April 7th, 2009 at 12:03 am
will someone answer a few questions, please my wife has a dell inspiron 1000 and i want to fill the empty memory slot currently she has 256 MB dell man# is snp6g648c/256 dell’s part # is a0743797 256 MB, DRAM, DDR SDRAM, SD DIMM 200 Pin, 32×64 this is per dell.com
they say it is not in stock but I found other dell part numbers with the same specs A0743797, A0743858, A0743550 all these have same specs as above ARE THEY? Secondly if I have 256MB does that mean I can not install anything else in spare slot in a dell 1000 the first memory module is hard wired so if it is DRAM DDR SDRAM SD DIMM 200 Pin 333MHz (PC2700) 32×64 256MB will using the same as above but 512MB would that work, if so would it use it all or just 256MB
I am tired and just hoping someone out there knows what I am asking
Thank you all
April 7th, 2009 at 12:13 am
I don’t understand what I just wrote sorry
CAN YOU GO HIGHER IN SIZE LEAVE ONE MODULE AT 256MB AND ADD A SECOND ONE AT 512MB OR HIGHER PROVIDING IT HAS SAME SPEED AND SD DIMM 200 PIN
ALSO WHAT IS MEMORY TYPE 2,5-3-4-7 is that what has to match OR MAYBE SOMEONE OUT THERE JUST WANTS TO GIVE ME A REAL LAPTOP INSTEAD! lol
April 9th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
fcku,
Yes, you can do that, just make sure the second module is also PC2700 as the first one.
Don’t think about these numbers. All you need as a 512MB PC2700 memory module for laptops (200 pin module).
May 10th, 2009 at 1:25 am
To fcuk…found that this website is quite useful. If you run a scan which they offer on the homepage of the site it will detect the computer being scanned and then offer you the possible memory uspgrades for the computer. Here is the site: http://www.crucial.com
As far as the amount of MB that each memory has it should total the amount, it is only the speed that is reduced if one is at 333MHz and the other is 266MHz then both modules will run at 266MHz
Hope that it helps!
August 9th, 2009 at 3:39 am
Have an Inspiron 8600 spilled with water. After cleaning and drying up the board still not powering up. Appreciate if anyone there point me where to get 8600 motherboard.
Thanks!
August 9th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
roman,
The best way to find a replacement motherboard is searching by the motherboard part number. You can find the motherboard part number in the memory compartment. Remove the memory cover from the bottom of the laptop and search for a white sticker. On the sticker you’ll find a string of numbers, something like CN-OF5236-XXXXXX-XXXXXX. You can use the second part in this string (OF5236) to search for the replacement motherboard. This number could be different for your laptop.
November 4th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Your site is great.
I own Toshiba M55-S135 Satelite lap top which has PSM 50U-02L01C. Could you please give the name and part # for the item just below the four indicator lights for Power, Battery etc front side of laptop on the extreme left hand side. I need the front cover (I presume as it is owned by my daughter) which is missing.Inside there is a small light glowing. Possible availability & price.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
krish,
Not sure what part you are asking about. Is it the wireless card switch cover? That’s my guess because you mentioned the small light glowing.
I think the front cover you are asking about is a part of the laptop base assembly. Here’s the part number for the laptop base assembly: K000030940
That’s my best guess without looking at the laptop.