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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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
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
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 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.
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 ?
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 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I need the cd boot start up for the toshiba satellite A10 model # PSA10C-035WM.
Please Help
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.