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A tutorial how to repair a overheating Toshiba laptop

Introduction to the cooling of a laptop
Warning: we can not in any way be held liable for any damages you may cause to your laptop by following this tutorial, which was made for information purposes only. You are responsible for what you do.

In this two-part tutorial, we'll see how to disassemble a laptop to fix the problem of a laptop that overheats.

Caution, however, the example is done with a Dell Inspiron laptop, and every laptop has its own architecture. You will certainly not find the items exactly the same place, but I hope this article will help you locate them anyway if you're ready to disassemble your laptop.
Regarding the laptop in this example, it gets very hot and it makes the PC switches itself off sometimes, probably because it reached the maximum level of security and temperature is warming up (it = s 'off). We will check the interior, put some thermal paste on the processor, dusting it off, and raise the laptop to allow air to be expelled from the pc correctly.



II. Explanations
1. Remove and open the laptop

The first thing to do would be to remove the battery from the laptop to remove any power on the one hand, and because it takes in most other cases. To do this, most of the time you have to push a small locket (white rectangle on the image below) and pull the battery at the same time to release it from its location.

Then he will need to unscrew all the screws you see under the laptop one by one (help yourself with a magnetized screwdriver or another magnet to get them out, to keep your nerves for the rest :-).

Then unscrew and remove the cover containing strips RAM.

Then you should see another door containing the hard drive of the laptop. On most PCs, it is like below the trap of memory (see also the tutorial to change a memory card on laptop), but it is on the side (front). There is a trap to unscrew to get this:

Here we see a "tab" which is used to pull the drive out of the slot. Remove the hard disk.



Then if you have removed all the screws from the bottom, you should almost be able to separate the top and bottom of the hull of the laptop.
I say "almost" because for me it is not yet the case.

Note: do not force any to separate the two parties because there are cables to unplug and tablecloths inside. If you force you will break them.

In fact I still have screws on the back of the pc. These are the two screws that secure the screen as we shall see later. It must also remove.

If you look on the back of the PC, there are even other parts to remove. The output VGA (monitor) is attached by two screws at each end specific, we'll have to unscrew them with a wrench.

Once this is done, return the pc screen and fold completely flat to put it. Then he'll have to disengage the two "bridges" that serve plastic cover above the visor fittings. Go gently with a screwdriver for example, and it should be removed.
In this example, they are connected with the cache of lights and power button, it will therefore have to unclip everything.

Finally, the cache is full.

Then there are still screws removed in the cache.

There is also a screw that holds the shell in the center of the metal plate under the keyboard (the keyboard that no longer hold, you can return it without problem).

And these are the lower and upper hulls will finally be able to separate. But separate them very carefully, looking inside your PC because you'll need to unplug cables at the same time: the water and the keyboard cable from the screen include.

Your laptop is then ripped open.

Tags: laptop, repair, Toshiba

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