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How to open toshiba satellite a75 to get to power connector

I need to know how to open the case to gain access, without removing access that don't need removed

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Hi.

Click on the video link below for instructions on how to disassemble the A75, you may have to watch the video a couple of times or pause the video.







Regards.

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Hi I have the same laptop and had the same thing happen. I am not a tech, just some dude that is handy and has "messed" with hardware for a bit. So this advise is "USE AT YOUR OWN RISK", I'm not responsible for anything. Well with that said here you go.
Remove the batter for safety. As you go keep the screws separated so you don't have to remember which is which when you put it back.
Flip the laptop over and you will find about a dozen screw holes labeled F7. You need to remove all of these to open the laptop. You'll find some running along the back edge of the laptop as well.
In the battery well, you'll find some more screws labeled F4, you should remove these as well.
There is a slider screw towards the right center of the machine that helps hold the cd bay in place, you don't have to remove this one, but you can in the even that you need to move the bay to gain better access to the DC jack.
Once you remove all the screws, flip the laptop up right. Open the screen as if you were going to use it.
Along the top of the keyboard, you will see that the bezel edge has a break away section the same with as the key board.
Using a small flat head screw driver pry it open from either the left or right side, and continue unclipping it across.
This will expose four very small screws. Remove them making sure to keep them safe, as they are holding your keyboard in place. Once you remove them, slowly seperate the keyboard from the body of the laptop. You will find a flat wire connected to the mother board from the keyboard. You can use a toothpick to slowly slide out the white edge from the brown connection bridge. Once you slide the white plastic peace away from the brown the wire will come out easily. BE CAREFUL with the wire since it is very fragile
Now you should have the keyboard separated from the laptop, put it in a safe flat place and continue.
On the left side hand of the laptop body is a card slot, use it as a finger hold to gently but firmly pry the laptop open. It is held together by clips running along both side edges and the front edge. These can be a little tough to open, so apply slow gentle force till you hear them pop open.
Before you pull it apart after unclipping it, use the same method used to remove the keyboard flat wire from the mother board connection on the three connections holding the top part of the machine to the motherboard. You'll find two towards the bottom center and one at the top left corner. Play close attention to the small flat white one as this is VERY fragile and the copper flanges at the end can bend very easily.
At this point you should be able to freely separate the top half (cover) of the pc from the bottom. Exposing the insides.
You'll be able to easy work with the dc jack now, in my case it was the plastic housing of the body of the laptop that broke. I held it in place with a dab of hot glue.
If you find that the CD drive is in your way, you can remove the two small black screws on either side of its copper connector, then lift the back of the bay up of the body and slow pull it and lift towards the left.
Work backwards to put it back together.

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No start after reassenbly to clear cooling fans. lights come on. no fans when start is pushed no action at all.videoed disassembly to insure correct re assembly according to toshiba A75-S2131 specs by

A) You did use an ESD wrist strap, and have it's alligator clip attached to a good ground source, right?
That way you don't have to worry about Static Shock issues, and frying out your laptop.

No?
You may have an expensive paperweight now.
(Although the motherboard does make a pretty good Frisbee)

Use any type of Anti-Static Precautions?

You did Follow Anti-Static Precautions? Good. Let's go on.

A) DC Power Jack

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1) Battery removed check the Center Pin of the DC Power Jack. Does it move?
2) Cracked solder joints of DC Power Jack to motherboard?
Yes, means disassembly again to check.

B) Cables (Wires) are routed SPECIFICALLY through Channels and Latches.
1) Are they, or is one or more pinched by being in the wrong place?

C) Power On button board's FFC installed, in the SAME direction as when it came out? Lock Bar in place to keep FFC locked in?

FFC = Flat Flex Cable.

As you know it has no connector on the end. The motherboard has the ZIF connector. Zero Insertion Force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_flat_cable

The flat contact pins of that FFC has to line back up in the ZIF connector on the motherboard, the same way it was when removed.

Broke the Locking Bar on the motherboard's ZIF connector, or the Body of the ZIF connector?
You're looking at motherboard replacement.

Post back in a Comment with your findings.

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Hi there is a toolbar coming up the whole time saying,,,,,WARNING a problem with the cooling system has been detected, please turn of the computer and return for service immediately

Try to fix the problem without taking the laptop apart first but I would recommend using a powerful air compressor instead of a vacuum cleaner.

Welcome to FixYa! Based on the error you have received, this means that the cooling fan of your laptop needs to be cleaned and checked at. This is a common problem with any toshiba laptop. I suggest checking the heatsink of your laptop. If the CPU heatsink is not clogged with dust and lint completely, you can use canned air and just blow it inside the laptop through the openings on the bottom and on the sides. It's nice as a precaution measure, but it might not work if your laptop already has a problem and the heatsink is completely clogged.

  1. Open the laptop case, so you can access the CPU fan and the heatsink. In some cases you can access the heatsink through the latch on the bottom of the laptop. Sometimes (for example Toshiba Satellite A70/A75) you have to open the laptop case all the way down.
  2. Carefully disconnect the fan cables on the system board and remove the fan. If the fan makes unusual sound when it spins (grinding sound), I would recommend to replace the fan.
  3. Clean the fan and the heatsink with compressed air.
  4. I would also recommend removing old thermal grease from the CPU and applying new grease for better heat conductivity.
  5. If your laptop is still under warranty, you can take it to any Toshiba Authorize Service Provider and fix the problem at no charge to you.
Hope this helps! Thank you for using FixYa!
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My tosiba satelite a75-5209 not switch on

It could be a faulty battery. Remove the battery & try to power up the laptop.
If the laptop did not power up after removing the battery, then notice the power receptacle where you plug the power adapter's cord to the laptop. While plugging the power cord in, notice if there is a spark occurring at the power receptacle. If the spark occurs, then disconnect internal drives & connectors one at a time until subsystem with short is identified. If power input still a short with bare motherboard, replace the motherboard. If the spark did not occur, then inspect the boards for burnt or melted components, cold solder on DC jack, open connections, or unseated cards.
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Ok here's my problem i have a toshiba a75 s211 when i put the power cord in then i turn it on the power cord indicator is on and is green but the charging indicator dosent come on and when i turn my laptop...

1. Test power adapter for output voltage. Bend the power cable in various directions while doing this to be sure that there is no broken conductors in the cable.
2. If power adapter is Ok, connect it & see if the power LED on the laptop will glow when you jiggle the power connector in various directions. If yes, then the DC jack might be loose or damaged, & need to be either re-soldered or replaced.
3. If not, then disassemble the laptop. Remove any components that attach to the laptop's motherboard first (e.g. battery, hard drive, RAM, wireless card, optical drive, ... etc.)
4. Next, remove the keyboard & the LCD screen.
5. Finally, unscrew all screws that hold the upper cover & lower cover together so that you could gain access to the motherboard.
6. Inspect the solder points connecting the DC jack to the motherboard. Make sure that none of them is loose. If any, re-solder them.
7. Inspect the center pin in the DC jack. Make sure that it is not broken or loose. If it is, then you might need to replace the DC jack.
8. When you are done, re-assemble back the laptop.
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Toshiba laptop will keep shuting off

It is because of the laptop overheating problem. This is a very common problem with and could be easily fixed if you clean the heat sink. If the CPU heatsink is not clogged with dust and lint completely, you can use canned air and just blow it inside the laptop through the openings on the bottom and on the sides. It’s nice as a precaution measure, but it might not work if your laptop already has a problem and the heatsink is completely clogged.
  1. Open the laptop case, so you can access the CPU fan and the heatsink. In some cases you can access the heatsink through the latch on the bottom of the laptop. Sometimes (for example Toshiba Satellite A70/A75) you have to open the laptop case all the way down.
  2. Carefully disconnect the fan cables on the system board and remove the fan. If the fan makes unusual sound when it spins (grinding sound), I would recommend to replace the fan.
  3. Clean the fan and the heatsink with compressed air.
  4. I would also recommend removing old thermal grease from the CPU and applying new grease for better heat conductivity.
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Screen black & with no power

hi there,

you can follow this instruction and try to your laptop to resolved the problem.

A bad connection between DC-IN power jack on the system board and the system board is a very common problem with Toshiba Satellite M35X and Toshiba Satellite A70/A75 notebooks. If your laptop is out of warranty, then you can fix the problem by resoldering DC-IN jack on the system board. If it’s still under warranty, it would be fixed at no charge to you.
Problem symptoms:
  1. Laptop randomly shuts down without any warning.
  2. Power LED and battery charge LED start flickering when you wiggle the power cord or the AC adapter tip on the back or your laptop.
  3. The battery will not get charged.
  4. When you plug AC adapter, the laptop appears to be dead and there is no LED activity at all (DC-IN jack on the system board is broken).
To fix the problem, you have to take your laptop apart, remove the system board to resoleder or replace the DC-IN jack. Toshiba Satellite M35X and Toshiba Satellite A70/A75 disassembly guides will help you to remove the system board. Take a closer look at the power jack on the system board with a magnifying glass. In most cases you get the power problem because of a bad connection between the DC jack and the system board, you’ll see a crack between the DC jack connector and the system board.
Here is an example of Toshiba Satellite M35X power jack. The crack occurs between the DC jack pin and the system board.
satellite-m35x-crack.jpg satellite-m35x-contact.jpg In some cases the connection is good, but the DC jack is bad itself. You can find a new DC jack for Toshiba Satellite M35X and Toshiba Satellite A70/A75 laptops here. Search for DC jack M35X or DC jack A75.
How to resolder laptop power jack yourself.
UPDATE:
Sometimes, after you replace the jack, you can see that the system board doesn’t get power at all. The battery will not charge and the power LED will not light when you plug in the AC adapter. So, here’s a possible explanation.
When a connection between the positive pin and the motherboard breaks (cracks), the power jack gets loose. You can feel it when you plug in the adapter plug. A loose power jack can damage the trace inside the hole in the system board. Take a look at the picture.
power-jack.gif As you see, the positive pin goes through the hole in the system board and you solder it on the top side. Right? What if the trace between the top side and the bottom side is broken somewhere inside the hole? I’ve seen it before a few times. In this case everything looks nice and clean on the top side. When you plug in the AC adapter, you get normal voltage readings between “+” and “-“ pins on the top side, but the power DOESN’T go to the motherboard at all, because there is no connection between the top and bottom sides. Test with a multimeter if there is a connection between the top and the bottom.
If the trace inside the hole is broken you still can fix it. You can run a wire to connect the top and the bottom sides. Be careful not to short something on the board.
Update:
Here’s another solution to fix the power jack problem, it shows how to relocate the power jack outside the laptop base. Check it out here: Toshiba Satellite A75 failed power jack workaround.
When you repair a loose power jack, it’s a good idea to check the jack on both sides of the motherboard. When you remove the top cover from a Toshiba Satellite A70/A75 laptop you can see only points where the jack is soldered to the motherboard as it shown on the second picture in this post, but you cannot see the jack itself as it shown on the first picture.
Removing the motherboard from Satellite A70/A75 laptop is a good idea because the jack itself might has a broken “+” pin, as it shown on the picture below. If the “+” broke off the base, you’ll have to replace the jack.
power-jack-broken.jpg
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Adding memory to Toshiba A75-S211

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    4. Snap the side clips in place
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