Toshiba a65 repair manual

Satellite M How to disassemble and remove top cover. Satellite M Removing screen and inverter board. Satellite M Removing top cover assembly.

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Condition: New. Qty :. Item : STAM Be careful with the PC card connector. Remove two screws securing the modem card. Disconnect the modem card cable on the system board. Lift the modem and the modem cable off the system board. Remove the screw securing the optical drive holder. The screw is hidden under the black tape.

Turn the system board right side up. Carefully remove the cardbus connector. Turn the system board upside down. Remove two screws securing the video chip fan. Remove the fan cable on the system board. Remove the video chip fan. Also, there has to be a Wi-Fi switch on the right side of the laptop.

Before you purchase Wi-Fi cables and Wi-Fi card, make sure you have this switch and it has to be turned on. He said that he tried upgrading the RAM.

He then turned it on, and then nothing comes on the screen. If anyone has a possible solution to this problem, can you please reply to this or contact me on:. I am having a problem with my toshiba asist laptop When I start it up all I get is a Check System message,then press f1 key after pressing the f1 key — it says enter date and when I do it just stops there Any help on this?

I knew that the onboard memory was defective, so I thought about replacing the motherboard. Thanks goodness that I stumbled upon posting 19, 23 and I decided to remove the onboard memory per blog using a sharp knife. At first the PC would not boot up and a continuous beep for about 30 seconds the power off. Then I decided to re-do everything all over again, this time I decided to clean up the soldering real good using a de-soldering bit. Afterward reassembled the laptop. I was able to power up.

Currently using 1 GB memory. PC is faster and working better than before. Thanks to posting 19, 23 and I am trying to repair a A60 for my brothers friend. Did you try removing the new RAM and starting the laptop with default memory? Just in case. Unplug the power adapter, remove the battery, wait for minutes. Try turning it on. Thanks for the reply about the wireless message I did look at the right side switch but there is no actual switch but something like a cap.

I have 2 slightly different problems with a Toshiba AS The insides all work fine but someone dropped or stepped on the computer and broke the top of the case not the inside, just the outside and the plug that goes into the computer we suspect family dog.

When I describe the problem with the top, they respond by describing terms that make no sense to me. They also seem to call the top the bottom! The second problem is with the plug into the computer. It was damaged, too. Can you suggest any kind of repair or are you aware of anyone who sells these plug components? Do you know anything about the other part — I believe it is called a head? It looks as though you have to buy the whole thing.

It is only the connector that has a problem. Many thanks, Jane. Basically you have two options: 1. Replace the whole adapter. Cut off the old broken power plug and replace it with a generic one that you can buy in Radio Shack if you have one in Panama. For those who have system boards that come with M of memory do not have to remove all the chips.

The memory is organized in two banks, one M 4 chip set on one side and the second M section on the other side, and by running memtest you can figure out which bank to remove. I think some people will have the same question I want to ask. How did you figure out witch memory bank is witch? On witch side of the motherboard this memory bank is located?

For me it was pretty easy. Inspecting the memory chips closely, I noticed one of the chips on the end of the row had a hairline crack running thru it. Memtest implied that chip was bad because it was failing at the MSB above M. So based on my experience, it appears that the high side memory modules are located on the side of the board that has the DIMM memory slot. We are on the way to resolving the first two problems.

The round silver circle where the power supply plugs into the computer has somehow gotten a little bit bent. Will this affect the new power supply plug we are obtaining?

Is there a way we can take the computer apart to see if there is any damage inside or should we just wait for the new plug and try it? Sorry to be so tedious with all these questions but you are a lifesaver for us as we are in the mountainous wilds of Panama and the resources here are quite limited.

Many thanks again. Thanks again, Jane. CJ, I asked too soon. I have verified inbetween power outages down here -happens all the time that the part is indeed the jack. The site you gave me was great and I found another that gave additional information about how to verify the exact jack number before ordering. I thought it might be helpful to others so am posting it here: laptoprepairparts.

I also have bad on board RAM. Googling has led me here. If you decided to remove the onboard memory and it works well for you please let us know.

Your experience will be very useful for all users with the same problem and model. I just fixed my A60 suffering from bad on-board RAM, and it was quite easy to do so actually. I went to a friend who had some sort of a hot air soldering tool which is very quick and easy to use…managed to remove all 4 memory chips in under 1 mintue! Does anyone know if it is possible to upgrade to 1G RAM on this model? You can install up to 1GB memory module into this slot.

You should use PC or PC module. As soon as I start a game emulator or so the fan starts getting loud and it keeps on going and doesnt stop even if i quite the application…it only stops when i put a bigger fan near the air intakes underneath. Now I opened up the laptop when i desoldered the chips and i accidentally removed the heatsink and saw that there was some thermal paste on the CPU so i left it as it is didnt reply and re-bolted the heatsink then i desoldered the bad memory and put the laptop back together, but im worried about the heating issue…could it be that i must reapply the thermal paste?

Please let me know. Moe, Did you notice if thermal paste was dried out? Games consume a lot of CPU power and make them hot really fast. I guess thats natural for this model? Do you advise sticking a pentium 4 chip in instead or would that just heat up more and mess things up? I saw the same laptop with a pentium 4 and it had the RAM problem, though of using its processor. Yep, this model runs hot. Also, overtime thermal grease looses its thermal conductivity and has to be replaced.

Next time when you clean the heat sink, try replacing thermal grease. I cannot tell you if your particular motherboard supports Pentium CPU, most likely it does. I was replacing the fan in my daughters Toshiba A65 S Satellite laptop. When attempting to disconnect the male pin from the female pin that is connected to the circuit board, the female pin broke off the circuit board.

Is there some place on the board that I can directly wire the fan into? Any ideas as to how to jerry rig this fan would be very much appreciated. The cooling fan requires DC5V. If so, what can I do? Before having that problem the laptop showed a blue screen saying that it had a problem with the virtual memory, so I shut it down.

Right after that is when the problem started. Is the memory screwed up? Power Jack on Satellite A65 is very bad every time I fix the same it comes off after few days again and again I am looking for some other solution if any one can suggest. Are you sure the small fan is not working? I believe the small fan North bridge fan turns on very rarely. Do you experience any particular problem with your laptop or asking just in case? Do you just keep adding fresh solder on the connectors without removing the jack?

Unsolder the power jack. Clean contacts on the motherboard and jack. Solder the power jack back in place. I have a Satellite A60, my issue is not being able to install 0S with recovery Cd.

Toshiba said my original was probably bad, so I purchased a new one from them. DLL could not be loaded. The eroor code is 4 Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit. I linked to both utilities in the sidebar. I am fixing a friends A First it had the power jack issue.

I managed to replace that and get it working. Then i reassembled the laptop and discovered the fan had stopped working and it was overheating.

After taking it back apart i realized the plug for the fan had broken off the motherboard. Reattaching was not possible, so i soldered three fan wires red, blue, and yellow directly to the motherboard. If i test the potential between each one and a ground i get 3.

Unfortunately, when i start the computer the fan still wont start and it still overheats. Does anyone know how this fan is supposed to be wired? Is there anyway i can test the fan to make sure it is working without attaching it to the motherboard? A battery or something? This is the same problem as the first post on this forum, and it seems that was never resolved, so any help would be great. I have a problem with my satellite A65 and do not know how to fix it.

When I power one, the red Toshiba sign on the start screen has black stripes running though it, then it goes into a black screen with the command prompt and stays frozen. If I restart the computer and apply some pressure with fingers below the space bar and to the right the toshiba red sign is just fine and the computer loads fine.

However as soon as I remove the pressure it freezes again. I tried cleaning up the inside and checked everything inside but it did not solve the problem. Any innput would be greatly appreciated. This is a great website. I figured reading all the posts that I have the bad memory problem. I just removed those. If I understand the comments correctly, I should unscrew the motherboard, flip it and there should be another 4 RAM chips on the other side. Is this correct? Is it on that other side that there is some kind of metallic finger that I need to get rid of along with the offer 4 chips?

I have remove Windows XP and install Windows After setup get error blue screen dead! Than copy system. Problem can not install ATI mobility.

Sometime computer turn of overheats when play Grand prix 2. Now used Windows Professional. Great blog. I had the memory problem 2 with red dotted virtical lines on the screen.

It was solved by removing the onboard memory as in posts 19 and 23 : Was about to throw out a perfectly salvagable laptop! Help and Support error. I click help and thats what pops up. It keeps saying not able to protect your computer. Please restart then run again. This all happened at the same time. No other problems before that. I have an A60 that will not charge the battery while the laptop is on battery decreases even when plugged in also it will not run on AC without a battery installed.

It will charge the battery when the laptop is shut down any ideas anyone. I took it apart and changed the jack as instructed on this web site well done by the way great instructions. After changing my DC Jack and putting my toshiba A60 back together again.. First of all, try reconnecting the DVD drive. Remove it from the laptop and install back. Take a look inside the connector, make sure there is no dirt in there.

Hi I have a toshiba satellite m40 laptop and i have this problem: when i try to shut down or restart the machine, windows stops at windows is shutting down and freezes there , i have to manually shut it down. I had the memory issue … I used a utility knife to cut the feet on the top 4 and inserted ram in the available slot and the laptop booted perfectly.

FYI there are 8chips 4on the top and 4 on the bottom. Thanks justin and this site. I got it running and it restored everything but when it was finish and it restart. It showed me a error black page. Did I do something wrong? Hi I removed very carefully the 8 onboard memory chips from my a60 and inserted 1gig mem in expansion slot.

Any Ideas?? I removed very carefully the 8 onboard memory chips from my a60 and inserted 1gig mem in expansion slot. Any Ideas? Did you test the laptop with an external monitor? Maybe the video cable is not plugged correctly? Take a closer look at the onboard memory connectors, maybe you accidentally bridged them while unsoldering the onboard RAM chips.

Yes I tried external monitor and the problem is the same. When I first removed the memory chips I only took off 4 and my laptop still would not load windows so I took off the other 4 and now this.

One thing ……the computer seems to be working and trying to boot but the screen is going crazy with mottled colours. Looks like I need a new motherboard…….. I will check again for shorts on the connections but I have checked with a powerful magnifying glass and it looks good.

I just wanted to update what I did to my A65 S comment might help some out. I removed only the top 4 ram chips that are attached to the motherboard. I used a pencil knife with a new blade and cut the feet on one side and slid the knife under until I could break em off.

I inserted ddr ram 1g and started it up booted and read the new ddr ram. Bad news was that the fan connector broke off the motherboard… I just resoldered it to the Usb port on the side of the computer both are 5volt so I figured it would work and it did.

Also the USB is still functionable, with no surges Fan runs all the time, but hey… the laptop works again so it was a fair trade off. Its plugged into the usb that the fan runs off of. I have a toshiba satelite and the power adapter charges the laptop, but when I try and use the laptop while it is plugged in the screen goes black. Everything else is working properly as I connected it to a monitor and everything is fine.

And as long as I am only on battery, laptop works great no blank screen. Ordered new power supply adapter thinking that was the problem, but not. Anyone else having this problem? Memtest is giving me a report of bad memory at MB. Since each chip is 64 MB, this would mean that the 3rd chip in the sequence is the bad one. I want to remove this single chip before I pull all 8 chips or gamble on removing just 4 chips, and at that which side of the mother- board to pull them from?

William mrbargin at yahoo dot com Any thoughts or suggestions on this I will greatly appreciate. Hi I purchase a used Toshiba A60 Motherboard that was suppose to have a power jack problem.

Turns out the underside of the motherboard where the postive side comes in on the board has two fried smd parts -L and L and the copper clad is lifting off the board.

What I needed to know is what are the two smd parts and were can I get them. I am having problems with a toshiba satellite AS my son removed his hard drive and when he put it back in now keeps getting black screen and when u select any other start mode it just goes back to the beginning again. I have Toshiba p satalite 2. Started having graphic problems with xp, thought it was a virus.

Colours for some parts of xp went pink. Have tried recovery disc for toshiba, but have now been getting realy poor quality graphics with virticle lines 4 together spread equally accross screen. LCD does not show up on own at the moment, only by external monitor. Is it virus problem effecting recovery area of system, or a chip problem as George in 81 suggests, even with such a new system, or a faulty graphics card.

Each time I have tried to reinstall system, it has bad graphics and a blue screen crash mentioning nv4. Apparently, your fan was on the verge of failure and cleaning it was the last straw.

You can find a replacement fan on eBay. I want pcb layout for laptop motherboards ,if you can help me with that. Hi i have toshiba A60,all the 3 usb ports not working , in which 1 port says multfunction device inserted. Tthanks for password clearing option i used shorting capacitor c it work great. Toshiba in their wisdom decided that the laptop cannot be used without a battery installed.

My question is this, does anyone know of a way to mod the battery connections so that the machine can run solely from the AC adapter? Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Are you sure about that? If you have a good working laptop you should be able to remove the battery and run it just from AC adapter. There are 8 chips on the motherboard.

I believe 4 chips on one side represent first MB and 4 chips on the other side another MB. When you run the memory test and it fails, it shows where it fails. It means if you can identify and remove first 4 chips first MB memory , it might fix the problem.

I had also the memory onboard issue satellite Suddenly my laptop was not booting and showing the error of some dlls missing with showing on the screen some lines and errors. I did tapped between the mouse pad and key board and the lines on the screen got corrected following this blog suggestion. I reboot and I could enter windows. I decided to open the laptop after I was able to save my HD.

I wanted to remove the internal memory. I have been working with the laptop so far two days without getting the memory problem maybe I just got luck but maybe this is the rootcause not the memory but the solder joints… So my advice is that before replacing any cheap just review the pins visual inspection or with possible a microscope and resolder any pin with seems to have a joint issue or resolder all its possible the memory chips are ok and it is just the pins not having proper contact.

BEcarefull of creating shortcuts to the pins!!! However I didnt had lucky to install the external memory. I bought a 1 Giga card but it was not entering into the slot not perfectly alligned so I cut the plastic internally to make it fit but when I plug it in I loose video signal. I do not know If my connector got damaged or the memory is not for my laptop or I need to do something else. Do anyone had same problem and have a solution about the external memory.

I got kind frustrated after fixing the issue saving my internal memory but not able to add more memory … About the location of bad chips I didnt run any software tool but I do believe the chips causing the video lines and this DLLs issue are the two right ones top and buttom. I did all the steps for resolder the power jack, When i conected the laptop everything went right, until some grey smoke came out of the back of the computer, and its death.

Continue from Thanks to all the people who post about the memory on board problem and the rootcause of the isapnp. I try it once and I got the Toshiba logo and the Windows logo and then it got the traces on the screen again and freeze I panic!!!

Y work several ours without issues I even reconfigure my laptop to use less virtual memory on the harddrive without issues. Its feels like having a new computer again! Thanks to all of you. I am not fan of writing just dig out what I need surfing around but I make a promise to myself of sharing this info if it works so I am taking my time to post this here.

Thanks to all Hope you all can fix your problems!!! I just repaired an A60 Toshiba with this same problem. Hard Disk was good, no corruption. First desoldered 4 chips on bottom of Motherboard — this was easier to get to, they are under a copper foil that you have to peel up.

I find it easuer to just cut the legs on the top of one side of he chip with a very sharp blade and then wiggle the other side to break it clean. You can then remove the legs with a small wattage iron 12ww I suggest.

Keep the tip clean! Then I removed the complete motherboard as I had nothing to loose- flipped it over and did the next 4 chips on the other side.

The laptop boots XP and runs perfectly. And in respnose to other questions, you can run it without the Battery installed and just on the AC adaptor. And the memory facing towards the keyboard is lower in the memory map. I say this because removing the first 4 chips I found still would not allow my laptop to boot to diags. I would put the protective foils back with the copper facing out towards you again just as you found it.

Or tape over the empty memory spots with black electrical tape to avoid shorts on the address pins. I installed the jack and everything was working fine. A while after I gave it back to her, it began having problems.

This was witnessed several times by different people. She assumed a battery issue and bought a new one. Once the new one arrived she popped it in and plugged in the laptop and now nothing happened. We tried a new PSU with the same results. I tore it down again and noticed the solder connection from the positive terminal on the jack was loose. Still the same symptoms even with the motherboard out everything removed from the board.

Since cost is an issue aside from replacing the motherboard or buying a new one, does anyone have any thoughts or ideas?