Toshiba Satellite 5105 laptop

Toshiba Satellite 5105 disassembly.

 
Disassemble laptop

STEP 1

Turn the laptop upside down.
Remove the battery.
Remove one screw securing the hard drive cover and remove the hard drive.
Remove six screws securing the memory cover, the modem cover, the modem/LAN jacks cover and remove all covers.

   
Remove memory

STEP 2

Remove the memory cards.

   
Remove modem board

STEP 3

Remove two screws securing the modem card to the system board.
Disconnect the LAN jack cable on the system board.
Lift off the modem card and the LAN jack assembly.

   
Take apart laptop

STEP 4

Remove all marked screws on the bottom of the laptop.

   
Remove laptop keyboard

STEP 5

Turn the notebook right side up.
Insert a thin object under the securing strip and lift it up.
Be careful, it may be very tight.

   
Removing laptop keyboard

STEP 6

Remove the keyboard securing strip.

   
Remove notebook keyboard

STEP 7

Remove two screws securing the keyboard.
Turn the keyboard over and place it on the palmrest.

   
Disconnect keyboard

STEP 8

Disconnect the keyboard flat cable on the system board.
Remove the keyboard.

   
Removing DVD drive

STEP 9

Remove one screw securing the DVD drive.

   
Remove laptop DVD drive

STEP 10

Slide the DVD drive out of the laptop base and remove it.


   
Disassemble laptop

STEP 11

Remove one screw securing the metal plate over the VGA board connectors.

   
Take apart laptop

STEP 12

Remove three screws securing the top cover.
Disconnect the speaker cables, the membrane swich cable, the front panel cable, the touchpad cable and the LCD/FL inverter cables.

   
Remove LCD/top cover assembly

STEP 13

Lift off the LCD/top cover assembly.

   
Remove top cover

STEP 14

Remove the LCD/top cover assembly.

   
Remove video board

STEP 15

Remove one screw securing the metal brace over the hard drive connector.
Lift off the brace.

   
Replace video (VGA) board

STEP 16

Lift off the video (VGA) board to disconnect if from the system board.

   

 

 

 

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