I need to clean the heatsink on my Qosmio F15... I checked the guide on the site and it doesn't mention the heat sink until very late... I am a little daunted by taking the computer totally apart into pieces, I might have trouble putting it back together, any advice?

thanks

Take lots of pictures and mark each screw

CJ Let me say what a GREAT Job you are doing here you and Everybody else..
Keep it up

I was working with notebooks 10 years ago and still have this hobby

I came across a Satellite 5205-S505 of a friend of mine and was trying to fix it.. It won't POST.. Well I have to say that this site was the most helpful in the internet

I'm willing to go to an extra step..

I want to have or make the "Debug Port test set" and also the "Diagnostics Disk" in order to be able to conduct the tests and fix the BIOS. I tried with no luck so I thought of asking the experts..

I think the "Diagnostics Disk" could be downloaded from the URL http://www.service.toshiba.com but I don't have a login. As for the "Debug Port test set" I'm guessing it is just a cros s-over serial cable.. I could be wrong

Any advice experts ??..

TA

THat's awesome cj. I'm on the verge of getting an fl inverter for my tecra 8100 so I can fix it up and sell it off. +rep for your mind reading abilities!!!

CJ, awesome work - its nice to see this kind of thing continually improve the toshiba forum

CJ,

The website is great! I wish I had the tools - and the temerity - to take my own A75 down. Certainly the instructions are clear and the pictures very helpful. As it is, it is really great to find that "I am not alone" in having this problem. (I'm still prolly taking my laptop in to an ASP, though.)

kaysee

Brilliant! Just what I needed to check on the FL Inverter on my Satellite 2340-402. Thanks very much

Any ideas?

Gents,
Anybody have any advice for me ??

Why dont you try to post this question as a new thread. Hijacking someone else's thread is not a good idea

saugen48 let me say that this was never my intention as I think this still goes with the manual usage!! .. Definately not "Hijacking"

Yet I have posted it in a new thread as I think it is not a bad idea. The new http://www.notebookforums.com/showth...70#post2158770 . Now I will wait for another comment on the duplicate entries ..

Cheers..

Cj2600,

Great site, very helpful.
Do you know if a satellite 1605 can be compared to any of the models you have on your site, in terms of disassemblage? I'm about to disassemble mine if I don't find a solution for it. My problem is described in this thread:
http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=157762
I would appretiate any help and thanks a lot for your site.

ckoia

Hi cj2600, tovarish! (:-)

I read your words on the Toshiba Sabtellite P15. Unfortunately, they were only on fixing an overheating problem. I have heard that the problems many people get with the DVD refusing to recognise DVD-R/RW disks is caused by oxidation on the connector pins. Lightly cleaning them with fine sandpaper and/or electronic switch cleaner, solves the problem! However, you don't say how to remove the DVD drive for inspection or mention disassembling the laptop down to the motherboard. Is that coming? I assume that releasing the single screw deep in the hole near the DVD will allow it to be removed. Yes? Does one have to have that irritating torx 8 screw driver, which I don't have?

Thanks.

Sandpaper?... Better be a REAL fine sandpaper, better option is a pencil /ink pen eraser.

Torx 8 screw driver? which you don't have?

If you're messing around with stuff like this, buy the whole set at your local hardware store, they aren't that much. If you're in the USA.... (the country that people try to sneak INTO under the cover of darkness..). Sears-Craftsman tools for the money can't be beat...

I agree absolutely. However, a proper electronic switch cleaner is far superior than the other two methods. It can be bought at Radio Shack for about $10 a can. Pencil erasers and suchlike have not always worked for me. It depends on the depth of the oxidation on the contacts. Here in Texas, there is always a lot of humidity which really calls for an after deposit of protection from more oxidation. So even sandpaper is a temporary solution at best, but it would quickly prove if one has solved the problem. Gently of course, and with a very fine paper as you say. My preference is a proper cleaner.

I was surprised by the number of reports on the internet of people using sandpaper and reporting their DVD now worked, when they were on the point of buying another unit! I guess Toshiba hasn't plated the contacts with gold.

I have not yet removed this DVD drive from the P15, has anybody already done so?