I was worried so i followed your instructions to the T. Now my computer is running from 45-50 degrees at idle. Before, it would start out at least at 60 degrees idle. I was sooooo worried that I had to shell out lots of dollars or my computer would just stop working. I cannot thank you enough for this video. Saved my life. Now maybe I should become an engineer....
Excellent video that gives me the confidence to attempt disassembly to clean my A505 that I have had, and used, every day for 5 years without cleaning. I'm sure, in addition to needing the thermal paste, it is loaded with dust. Thank you for posting this video.
Thank you for this video! It saved my daughters computer. Few screws left over, but I am sure it will be fine...lol. Note to self: Next time keep track of EVERY screw as you remove them..
Your video made a daunting task possible for me, and my USB ports live again! One thing could be more clear: opening the fragile little ribbon cable connectors. 3:42 The keyboard connector has a pressure bar that pulls out using two little tabs on either side. 4:33 The touch pad conn has a pressure bar that flips up to release the cable. Do not try to pull the bar straight out like the kybd conn; this could ruin it. This needs an annotation.
Thanks for your comment, actually because of fast motion there is no sound. Concerning your question, I don't use any specific liquid or material for cleaning, but there are cleaning clothes comes either with LCD TVs or with macbooks or Cameras or the gadget plastic covers, you can use it. For the surface I recommend any wet tissues like wipes or Lysol but squeeze it before using it.
@MVC2onPC You're welcome. Concerning the question, I guess so and I didn't think on removing the video chip and apply thermal paste on there too. If you disassembled it then check if the video chip card is screwed or fixed and can't be removed, sorry I don't remember it. Thanks
Check the LCD connector! Make sure its seated properly!Take the ribbon cable disconnect it then reconnect it. It worked for me! I thought my screen was toast. I had lines on the screen went online saw images of the same issues I was having and everybody said replace this or that. Ill bet if you work the connection in and out a couple times it will solve your problem. Laptops are moved around alot,you grab them.the plastic on the screen is thin and flexes. The connector sits right where you grab.
hey! So i took apart the laptop and turns out its not connected to the motherboard like you said. The usb port was held by a small screw that had just broken lose so I just placed them back into the port and stuck two erases to hold it in place and its been working perfectly fine yay! Thanks!
@tiggerz90 The one on the right are separate board so even they're defective so you didn't loose the whole motheboard and you can buy it cheap. However, it is possible to be a software problem and need to update the drivers of the chipset or what is related driver. If it just pressed in, then disassembled like this and you will access the usb easily and you can fix it by glueing it or figure it out in a way cause it could be either a screw loose. Thanks
To access the CPU you need to access the motherboard and take it off. The DVD it self its not a problem but the screw which mount the dd drive is connected to the MB so if you unscrew this and DVD is stuck ou're good to proceed. Good luck.
I just wanted to say I appreciate this video. A quick easy guide to opening this toshiba a500 that I have to re-apply thermal paste to. However; when you applied your thermal paste to the cpu I cringed. What are you doing mate? Do you understand how thermal paste works? On a desktop cpu it is suggested to put a pea size amount or a small cross (I do the cross) and then press the heatsink down, give it a couple of twists and lock it in place. This prevents air bubbles forming in the thermal paste. I can understand twisting may be impossible in this instance but what you have done could even make it worse (especially when they take it to someone like me who know's what their doing and has to clean the whole die again). PEOPLE, just put a rice sized line accross the die (maybe twice rice sized) and just press the heatsink down. I would not recommend putting a buttload on and then painting it around with tissue.
Most laptops the DVD drive have only one screw which is under the middle cover on the black plastic not on the board. It maybe stuck if you removed the screw so you can either push it out gently with a flat head screw driver. Also it maybe don't need it to be removed at the begining anf after you remove the front cover then it will be handy and remove. Concerning the screws, this laptop was used and opened before so there were some missing screws especially on the right metal, house of the dvd.
Yes it matter, cause there should be a paste between the cpu (or GPU) and the heat sinks, (1) for the purpose of transferring the heat,(2) because it will fill a space between them. You have to put paste between them or it will get the CPU very hot and may damage it.
This is going to be very useful to me, thanks. My toshiba overheats and shutsdown itself for protection. Do you know any other thing besides thermal paste that can help? do you know if there is any other fan that is better or something? Do you happen to know of any particular cooling base that's good?
Your video provides me excellent visual instructions. Thanks so much! I have the same Toshiba laptop which needs fan replacement. It is a project for my To-Do list. I have several laptops, (2 of them Toshiba) but this one is my best with the i7 processor. Currently my quick-fix is to use a fan-mat. plus a small personal fan in the back. At least I significantly reduced the over-heating and the shutdown. :-)
For some reason, I'm not getting any sound. . . You are clearly saying stuff, but all I see are the movements. Other then that, great video, ready good to be helpful in my cleaning/upgrade of my laptop! One question, do you have recommendation for a cleaner to use on laptop surfaces? Like the lid and keyboard.
Thanks for the video. I could not hear anything though and it looked like you were saying things. I don't have any complicated issues accept my fan won't turn so I'm looking to replace it. Thanks for sharing this.
Do you still have that laptop? Can the CPU be upgraded? Found a tossed out A505 recently with Win Vista 😴 and a Centrino CPU. It still works great! Screen is crisp, battery still holds a charge, and is in good shape!
I'm happy for you and you're welcome. But I said its a separate board and I added buying it will be cheap because of that lol, in addition, I mentioned it maybe a screw loose and just need to glue or a way you figure it out and you did lol. Happy for you and thumbs up☺
As I remember in radioshack, there are thermal paste and another one, I think heat sink ..., anyway, thermal paste should be thick and not liquidy. I don't use specific brand, however I'm not a professional.
Maybe it's a windows issue and not hardware, try partition the hard drive and reinstall windows on the new partition. After installation finished check the USBs if worked then you need to backup all your stuff from the original hard drive. Then format the hard drive and reinstall windows from either the original toshiba backup partition (if it's still there) or from the same windows cd you used it before.
Is this reversible? I might try it, even though it sounds like a solution to install a different operating system to check if it was OS issue. I think a EMP wave got me this time, we had some bad lighting this past summer, and after one storm my printer died and so did one of my USB's. Now they all are along with the Random shut down. :/
I think toshiba (also other brands) have usb drivers for usb3, try reinstall it, search for "Toshiba USB Sleep and Charge Utility for Windows" and it's a usb driver, hope this may work. Also, you can download windows 7 oem online, if you want to try my first option.
Would you happen to know where the CMOS jumper pins are on this model. My niece set a boot password that she does not remember. There are no guides or info for resetting this model bios.
do you know how to replace the usb ports on this computer or to fix them? I was trying to plug in a usb and it made a sound and now both the ports are out of place and pushed a bit in.
Actually, I have read on that sleep n charge thing, but never fully tried it. in the Toshiba and win7 forums, they said I needed to play around in the bios.. which I'm skilled enough to do, but not enough to fix a screw up. How would i go about to do your first step? Do i need to boot win 7 off a USB stick? How would i if my USB's arent working? And is my data safe if I make a new partition and re-format? this just may not end well. :/
I have the same laptop it looks like. Mine used to only shut off when I played graphically intense games now it shuts off for you tube. Is thermal paste all it needs? If so, how much should I expect to pay? Great video by the way!!
I suggest you to try it from CD cause I dont remember if installing from the downloader will give you an option where to install the new windows, but from the cd you boot from it and you pick the new partition to install the new windows. Is it reversable, kinda. At boot you will have option of which windows to boot, then when boot to first one u go to some settings and remove the option and make the old one default and format the new partition so you regain your partition.U'll learn alot from it
Hi, i am having the same proble and i cant remove whatever you remove from de DVD unit, in your video it slide quite simple, but i cant remove it, and for some reason a needed to remove extra F6 screws , and i dont want to broke something, what can i do?
I have a A500 and it has horizontal lines on the screen, I can't use the laptop at all. When connected to a TV (hdmi) all seems to be ok and working perfect, so the only 2 things that can be faulty are the ribbon or the LCD panel, does ti worth buying the ribbon and change it first, maybe this solves the problem, or go straight with the LCD? Thank you!
This would be perfect if it had sound.. As somebody who has never taken apart a computer before but has to now because I can't afford to get it fixed, I have no idea what those parts are that you point to after dis-assembly, and even less of an idea of why you're pointing to them in the first place.
i had same problem lines/black screen lcd screen cable was loose bsod or os not found is likely corrupt or faulty hdd if you hit f2when restarting see if it sees harddrive. If the laptop works until bumped likely hdd if it works the same amount of time until hot repaste cant hurt
Now I took the screws out offf the back, and pried the tabs around the side, I have the screen still attached, why won't the black bottom just pull off now??
I kept crashing everytime I played a game or did anything on my toshiba S875D-S7350 and had no clue why. Downloaded speccy and say that my CPU is 100c+ when I'm just idleing. Really need to do this soon.
I'm sorry I don't have an answer for your query, cause it also maybe the graphic card problem and displaying on external monitor does not exclude it from being faulty. Try to search online for horizontal lines causes and hope you figure out whats the problem. Good luck.
If Graphics card is gone their is NO Video. Lines = Inverter issues. Just Speaking from 40 year IT experience and Toshiba Repair Tech. Computer Interface Systems ®" First
Can someone please help me!! NONE of my USB ports are working!!! 2 on the right, 1 on the left, and eSATA on the left. 1 on the right stopped a long time ago, but now they ALL stopped. They all still provide power but no data/ recognization. I've never used a USB hub so I suspect it wasn't overloaded. Please help!! Before this happened the laptop shut down with out warning or blue screen then wouldnt restart. It would shut down before the bios even loaded. Everything else seems to be ok
I dont have the OS back up CD or a recovery disc made yet or on a external drive. I know I know its so stupid of me not to. I guess I learn the hard way. Imma about o try and reboot in safe mode and uninstall ALL the USB drivers then connect devices and see what happens, same with in normal mode. I really hope its not a made motherbored.. :(
Try install windows again on a new hard drive or partition your own hard drive and see if the new windows has these symptoms, if does then it's a hardware problem like the video card.
Hi, toshiba a505 models support that memory articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-581887142-memoria-notebook-kingston-sodimm-8gb-ddr3-1600-mhz-_JM Can support 1600 mhz?
You need to have some skills in doing it. No you don't need a usb flash drive, but from the downloaded file you can install it, or you can mount (burn) the installation on a cd (if the cd burner works). Yes of course, your data will be safe cause you will install windows on a different partition and windows will detect there are two windows when you done and when booting will till you to boot from which one. Partition,at least 10gb.when installing windows, pick new installation and not upgrade.
I was worried so i followed your instructions to the T. Now my computer is running from 45-50 degrees at idle. Before, it would start out at least at 60 degrees idle. I was sooooo worried that I had to shell out lots of dollars or my computer would just stop working. I cannot thank you enough for this video. Saved my life. Now maybe I should become an engineer....
Excellent video that gives me the confidence to attempt disassembly to clean my A505 that I have had, and used, every day for 5 years without cleaning. I'm sure, in addition to needing the thermal paste, it is loaded with dust. Thank you for posting this video.
Thanks, You helped me. I was stuck until I saw you remove the pop out strip along the top edge of the keyboard.
Thank you for this video! It saved my daughters computer. Few screws left over, but I am sure it will be fine...lol. Note to self: Next time keep track of EVERY screw as you remove them..
I am not a professional so I bought one randomly out of eBay, costs $5, and it do a great job, and just fixed an All-in-One and it's great.
Your video made a daunting task possible for me, and my USB ports live again!
One thing could be more clear: opening the fragile little ribbon cable connectors.
3:42 The keyboard connector has a pressure bar that pulls out using two little tabs on either side.
4:33 The touch pad conn has a pressure bar that flips up to release the cable. Do not try to pull the bar straight out like the kybd conn; this could ruin it. This needs an annotation.
Thank you very much for the video it had helped me many times! I have my Toshiba laptop for 11 years and still works excellent thanks to this video.
Thanks for your comment, actually because of fast motion there is no sound. Concerning your question, I don't use any specific liquid or material for cleaning, but there are cleaning clothes comes either with LCD TVs or with macbooks or Cameras or the gadget plastic covers, you can use it. For the surface I recommend any wet tissues like wipes or Lysol but squeeze it before using it.
@MVC2onPC You're welcome. Concerning the question, I guess so and I didn't think on removing the video chip and apply thermal paste on there too. If you disassembled it then check if the video chip card is screwed or fixed and can't be removed, sorry I don't remember it. Thanks
Check the LCD connector! Make sure its seated properly!Take the ribbon cable disconnect it then reconnect it. It worked for me! I thought my screen was toast. I had lines on the screen went online saw images of the same issues I was having and everybody said replace this or that. Ill bet if you work the connection in and out a couple times it will solve your problem. Laptops are moved around alot,you grab them.the plastic on the screen is thin and flexes. The connector sits right where you grab.
It could be a fried INVERTER loacated in the shell of LCD
hey! So i took apart the laptop and turns out its not connected to the motherboard like you said. The usb port was held by a small screw that had just broken lose so I just placed them back into the port and stuck two erases to hold it in place and its been working perfectly fine yay! Thanks!
@tiggerz90 The one on the right are separate board so even they're defective so you didn't loose the whole motheboard and you can buy it cheap. However, it is possible to be a software problem and need to update the drivers of the chipset or what is related driver. If it just pressed in, then disassembled like this and you will access the usb easily and you can fix it by glueing it or figure it out in a way cause it could be either a screw loose.
Thanks
To access the CPU you need to access the motherboard and take it off. The DVD it self its not a problem but the screw which mount the dd drive is connected to the MB so if you unscrew this and DVD is stuck ou're good to proceed. Good luck.
I just wanted to say I appreciate this video. A quick easy guide to opening this toshiba a500 that I have to re-apply thermal paste to.
However; when you applied your thermal paste to the cpu I cringed. What are you doing mate? Do you understand how thermal paste works? On a desktop cpu it is suggested to put a pea size amount or a small cross (I do the cross) and then press the heatsink down, give it a couple of twists and lock it in place. This prevents air bubbles forming in the thermal paste. I can understand twisting may be impossible in this instance but what you have done could even make it worse (especially when they take it to someone like me who know's what their doing and has to clean the whole die again).
PEOPLE, just put a rice sized line accross the die (maybe twice rice sized) and just press the heatsink down. I would not recommend putting a buttload on and then painting it around with tissue.
For the life of me I cannot stand the fact that he made his repairs on the Laptop LCD back ,, SCRATCHING the Hell out of a Customers Computer. IDIOT
Most laptops the DVD drive have only one screw which is under the middle cover on the black plastic not on the board. It maybe stuck if you removed the screw so you can either push it out gently with a flat head screw driver. Also it maybe don't need it to be removed at the begining anf after you remove the front cover then it will be handy and remove.
Concerning the screws, this laptop was used and opened before so there were some missing screws especially on the right metal, house of the dvd.
Yes it matter, cause there should be a paste between the cpu (or GPU) and the heat sinks, (1) for the purpose of transferring the heat,(2) because it will fill a space between them. You have to put paste between them or it will get the CPU very hot and may damage it.
This is going to be very useful to me, thanks. My toshiba overheats and shutsdown itself for protection. Do you know any other thing besides thermal paste that can help? do you know if there is any other fan that is better or something? Do you happen to know of any particular cooling base that's good?
Your video provides me excellent visual instructions. Thanks so much! I have the same Toshiba laptop which needs fan replacement. It is a project for my To-Do list. I have several laptops, (2 of them Toshiba) but this one is my best with the i7 processor. Currently my quick-fix is to use a fan-mat. plus a small personal fan in the back. At least I significantly reduced the over-heating and the shutdown. :-)
This also helps for getting to a lot of other components....I have to replace my mousepad ,so I found help here for that too..thanks!!!
For some reason, I'm not getting any sound. . . You are clearly saying stuff, but all I see are the movements. Other then that, great video, ready good to be helpful in my cleaning/upgrade of my laptop!
One question, do you have recommendation for a cleaner to use on laptop surfaces? Like the lid and keyboard.
Thanks for the video. I could not hear anything though and it looked like you were saying things. I don't have any complicated issues accept my fan won't turn so I'm looking to replace it. Thanks for sharing this.
Do you still have that laptop? Can the CPU be upgraded? Found a tossed out A505 recently with Win Vista 😴 and a Centrino CPU. It still works great! Screen is crisp, battery still holds a charge, and is in good shape!
Thanks for sharing that and you and all watchers are so welcome.
I'm happy for you and you're welcome. But I said its a separate board and I added buying it will be cheap because of that lol, in addition, I mentioned it maybe a screw loose and just need to glue or a way you figure it out and you did lol. Happy for you and thumbs up☺
As I remember in radioshack, there are thermal paste and another one, I think heat sink ..., anyway, thermal paste should be thick and not liquidy. I don't use specific brand, however I'm not a professional.
Maybe it's a windows issue and not hardware, try partition the hard drive and reinstall windows on the new partition. After installation finished check the USBs if worked then you need to backup all your stuff from the original hard drive. Then format the hard drive and reinstall windows from either the original toshiba backup partition (if it's still there) or from the same windows cd you used it before.
Fixed!!!, but how often should I do this???
i have a question, is there any specific thermal paste i should use or am i ok with one bought from radioshack?
Is this reversible? I might try it, even though it sounds like a solution to install a different operating system to check if it was OS issue. I think a EMP wave got me this time, we had some bad lighting this past summer, and after one storm my printer died and so did one of my USB's. Now they all are along with the Random shut down. :/
ALWAYS check the connection first! How often does a VGA die? I have never had one die on me and I have been computing since 1993.
I think toshiba (also other brands) have usb drivers for usb3, try reinstall it, search for "Toshiba USB Sleep and Charge Utility for Windows" and it's a usb driver, hope this may work.
Also, you can download windows 7 oem online, if you want to try my first option.
Would you happen to know where the CMOS jumper pins are on this model. My niece set a boot password that she does not remember. There are no guides or info for resetting this model bios.
do you know how to replace the usb ports on this computer or to fix them? I was trying to plug in a usb and it made a sound and now both the ports are out of place and pushed a bit in.
Actually, I have read on that sleep n charge thing, but never fully tried it. in the Toshiba and win7 forums, they said I needed to play around in the bios.. which I'm skilled enough to do, but not enough to fix a screw up. How would i go about to do your first step? Do i need to boot win 7 off a USB stick? How would i if my USB's arent working? And is my data safe if I make a new partition and re-format?
this just may not end well. :/
I have the same laptop it looks like. Mine used to only shut off when I played graphically intense games now it shuts off for you tube. Is thermal paste all it needs? If so, how much should I expect to pay?
Great video by the way!!
Very good video. Thank you very much. Works well.
I suggest you to try it from CD cause I dont remember if installing from the downloader will give you an option where to install the new windows, but from the cd you boot from it and you pick the new partition to install the new windows. Is it reversable, kinda. At boot you will have option of which windows to boot, then when boot to first one u go to some settings and remove the option and make the old one default and format the new partition so you regain your partition.U'll learn alot from it
Will any thermal paste do?
Hi, i am having the same proble and i cant remove whatever you remove from de DVD unit, in your video it slide quite simple, but i cant remove it, and for some reason a needed to remove extra F6 screws , and i dont want to broke something, what can i do?
I have a A500 and it has horizontal lines on the screen, I can't use the laptop at all. When connected to a TV (hdmi) all seems to be ok and working perfect, so the only 2 things that can be faulty are the ribbon or the LCD panel, does ti worth buying the ribbon and change it first, maybe this solves the problem, or go straight with the LCD? Thank you!
LCD inveter gone in Shell of LCD
Computer Interface Systems ®" First
This would be perfect if it had sound.. As somebody who has never taken apart a computer before but has to now because I can't afford to get it fixed, I have no idea what those parts are that you point to after dis-assembly, and even less of an idea of why you're pointing to them in the first place.
Do i need to take out the ran and the hdd?
thank you do you have schematic diagram for this model
i had same problem lines/black screen lcd screen cable was loose
bsod or os not found is likely corrupt or faulty hdd if you hit f2when restarting see if it sees harddrive. If the laptop works until bumped likely hdd if it works the same amount of time until hot repaste cant hurt
Does it matter if I follow the process clean the heatsink and the fan without applying new paste? No troubleby doing that?
While your that far torn down; I would not skip the new paste. You`ll be happier in the long run
Now I took the screws out offf the back, and pried the tabs around the side, I have the screen still attached, why won't the black bottom just pull off now??
Wow, I love you!! thanks it works perfectly now!
this video helps lot ty
I kept crashing everytime I played a game or did anything on my toshiba S875D-S7350 and had no clue why. Downloaded speccy and say that my CPU is 100c+ when I'm just idleing. Really need to do this soon.
I'm sorry I don't have an answer for your query, cause it also maybe the graphic card problem and displaying on external monitor does not exclude it from being faulty. Try to search online for horizontal lines causes and hope you figure out whats the problem. Good luck.
If Graphics card is gone their is NO Video. Lines = Inverter issues. Just Speaking from 40 year IT experience and Toshiba Repair Tech.
Computer Interface Systems ®" First
Looks like a difficult job but I may be forced to try it. Although I am not even sure its the core... looks like its the graphics card.
Can someone please help me!! NONE of my USB ports are working!!! 2 on the right, 1 on the left, and eSATA on the left. 1 on the right stopped a long time ago, but now they ALL stopped. They all still provide power but no data/ recognization. I've never used a USB hub so I suspect it wasn't overloaded. Please help!! Before this happened the laptop shut down with out warning or blue screen then wouldnt restart. It would shut down before the bios even loaded. Everything else seems to be ok
I dont have the OS back up CD or a recovery disc made yet or on a external drive.
I know I know its so stupid of me not to. I guess I learn the hard way. Imma about o try and reboot in safe mode and uninstall ALL the USB drivers then connect devices and see what happens, same with in normal mode. I really hope its not a made motherbored.. :(
does anyone know how to reset the BIOS of this computer
Try install windows again on a new hard drive or partition your own hard drive and see if the new windows has these symptoms, if does then it's a hardware problem like the video card.
Thank you very much :)
in general thank you for the video, but you have skipped some screws the guide is not complete
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Hi, toshiba a505 models support that memory articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-581887142-memoria-notebook-kingston-sodimm-8gb-ddr3-1600-mhz-_JM Can support 1600 mhz?
You need to have some skills in doing it. No you don't need a usb flash drive, but from the downloaded file you can install it, or you can mount (burn) the installation on a cd (if the cd burner works). Yes of course, your data will be safe cause you will install windows on a different partition and windows will detect there are two windows when you done and when booting will till you to boot from which one. Partition,at least 10gb.when installing windows, pick new installation and not upgrade.