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Toshiba Satellite 1200. How to take apart laptop.

Toshiba Satellite 1200 disassembly.

 
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove laptop battery and DVD drive.

STEP 1

Turn the laptop over and remove the battery and the CD/DVD-ROM drive.

 

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Removing memory and HDD.

STEP 2

Remove two screws securing the laptop memory cover and remove it.
Remove two screws securing the laptop hard drive.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove laptop memory and hard drive.

STEP 3

Remove the laptop memory module.
Slide the hard drive to the right to disconnect it from the system board and remove the hard drive.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Open laptop case.

STEP 4

Remove all marked screws on the bottom of the laptop.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove keyboard strip with control board.

STEP 5

Insert a sharp object under the keyboard securing strip and carefully start lifting it up. Continue removing the strip with your fingers.
Be very careful with the strip because it has a control board attached to it.
It might take some time to remove the keyboard strip.
   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Disconnect control board.

STEP 6

Turn over the keyboard strip and disconnect the LED board cable from the control board.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. LED board.

STEP 7

Remove four screws securing the laptop LED board.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove laptop LED board.

STEP 8

The LED board has a belt in the middle. Use the belt to lift up the LED board and disconnect it from the system board.
Remove the LED board.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Removing laptop keyboard.

STEP 9

Remove four screws securing the laptop keyboard and lift it up from the laptop.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Disconnect and lift up keyboard.

STEP 10

Open the keyboard connector on the system board and pull the keyboard cable.
Remove the keyboard.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Taking apart laptop case.

STEP 11

Remove four screws securing the laptop display hinges on the back of the laptop.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove wireless card cover.

STEP 12

Remove one screw securing the wireless card cover.
After you remove the cover you will get an access to the wireless card antennas.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Disconnect Wi-Fi antenna cables and disconnect VGA cable.

STEP 13

Disconnect the touchpad cable on the system board.
Disconnect the wireless card antennas from the wireless card. Remove yellow tape securing the antenna cables.
Remove one screw securing the video cable connector. Disconnect the video cable on the system board.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove LCD assembly.

STEP 14

Lift up the laptop display assembly and remove it.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove heatsink cover.

STEP 15

Before you start removing screws under the keyboard I would recommend to mark them somehow. There would be a lot of screws.
Remove four screws from the CPU heatsink cover and remove the cover.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Removing laptop top cover.

STEP 16

Remove all marked screws from the laptop top cover.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Lift up top cover.

STEP 17

Remove the laptop top cover assembly. If you turn it over, you will get an access to the laptop touchpad.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. VGA board.

STEP 18

In this model the VGA board is a separate module.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove laptop video card.

STEP 19

Lift the video board up to disconnect it from the connector on the system board.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove laptop wireless card.

STEP 20

Remove the laptop wireless card.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove laptop modem.

STEP 21

Remove one screw securing the modem card.
Lift up the card to separate it from the system board and disconnect the modem cable.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove hard drive holder.

STEP 22

Remove five screws securing the hard drive holder and lift up the holder.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Remove CPU heatsink.

STEP 23

Loosen four screws securing the CPU heatsink and fan assembly.
Lift up the heatsink from the CPU.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Removing laptop system board.

STEP 24

Remove three screws securing the system board and remove the metal brace.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Disassembling laptop.

STEP 25

Before you can remove the system board from the base you have to remove four hex studs from the VGA port and the parallel port.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Lift up laptop system board.

STEP 26

Lift up the laptop system board and remove it from the base.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. Unlock and remove laptop processor.

STEP 27

Unlock the laptop processor and lift it up from the socket.

   
Toshiba Satellite 1200. How to take apart.

STEP 28

Toshiba Satellite 1200 disassembly done!

   

 

 

 

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