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Dismantling and fixing your Toshiba laptop

We are here to figure out how we can dismantle and repair a Toshiba Satellite A70 and A75 laptop easily and efficiently. If you experience an overheating problem, which is something that generally tends to happen to laptop users over time, you can use this method to clean up the cooling module and remove dust from the heat sink. Also you can use this if you want to remove and repair the system board and re-solder the DC-IN jack.

These are some of the things known about toshiba laptopsmodels.

1. The clogging of dust and sink is easy so the laptop may overheat and shut down without any warning.
2. If being used for a long time, the power jack might loose connection with the motherboard and because of that the laptop stops charging the battery or switches between the AC and battery power on its own. To fix the problem you’ll have to re-solder or replace the power jack.
3. There night be improperly grounding of the top cover assembly and because of that the laptop freezes or shuts down when you touch the speakers or touchpad. In this case you’ll have to replace or modify the top cover.

Toshiba Laptop Models - Satellite A70 and A75 common notebook parts:
Cooling fan: K000016310
Keyboard: K000016050, K000015780
DVD/CD-RW drives: K000015770, K000015790, K000015800, K000025480
DVD Multidrives: K000015860, K000015870, K000024880
DVD Multidrives Double Layer: K000025200, K000029620, K000018830, K000020480, K000025640
AC adapter: PA3290U-2ACA
Make sure to contact the seller and ask if the part you are buying is compatible with your model. This is very important as parts of other models of Toshiba laptops will not work with your toshiba laptops model, so be very careful that you are buying the right part.

This is a simple 8 STEP PROCEDURE:

1) You should turn the unit upside down and remove screws securing the Wi-Fi card cover and the hard drive cover. You must also remove the Wi-Fi card cover and the hard drive cover.
2) Then you need to loosen the metal brace screw. Remove the metal brace and the wireless card and then remove the hard drive and then remove the battery.
3) Remove the one screw securing the DVD drive.
4) Remove the DVD drive.
5) Then remove all screw on the bottom.
6) Turn the laptop right side up. Insert a thin object under the securing strip and lift it up. Be careful, it may be very tight
7) Remove the securing strip.
Remove two screws securing the keyboard.
Press on the lock in the center to release the keyboard.