I have a Toshiba Satellite A60 laptop and the fan is pretty much dead
I have a Toshiba Satellite A60 laptop and the fan is pretty much dead. The computer shuts off after 15 minutes of use. Can you tell me the model number for this fan and is there a guide to replacing it?
First of all, make sure that the laptop shuts down because of a dead fan and it’s necessary to replace it. When you turn on the laptop, does the fan start spinning? Can you here it at all? It’s very likely that the laptop shuts down because the cooling module is clogged and it needs just a good cleaning. Laptop overheating is a very common issue. I just replace a motherboard on Toshiba Satellite A65 and believe me, the heat sink was 100% clogged with lint and dust. So, I would check the heat sink and the fan first. Here’s a disassembly guide I made for Toshiba Satellite A65 laptop, it would be the same for Satellite A60. If you want to find a heat sink cooling fan for this model, look up on the Internet by the part number: V000042110.
If you want to clean up the fan and the heat sink, it would be enough to remove just the keyboard. You’ll get a good access to the cooling module so you can clean it up with compressed air. To replace the fan, you’ll have to remove to top cover and fortunately, you don’t have to remove the system board.
UPDATE: Here’s another thread dedicated to Toshiba Satellite A60 and A65 problems.
January 20th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
So I have a Toshiba M300, and have a problem with overheating (I also hear that overheating in the M300 has always been a problem).
Anyway I have followed this guide to disassemble the laptop and used compressed air to clean the cooling fan and heatsink (what I could get to cause the motherboard is on top of it).
However despite doing this, the laptop still overheats to the point of not being able to use it. So hot you can barely touch it or use the touchpad.
A friend suggested it might be the processor so check the CPU usage when its idling and if its over 10% then that is the problem. However it idles at about 3-7%.
I brought a laptop cooling fan to help address the issue somewhat but it doesn’t seem to be doing any good.
The fan basically is basically blowing hot air out from the get go. Any help would be much appreciated?
June 17th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Just cleaned my Toshiba Equium AE60-191 using this as a guide. Only wanted to clean the fans as I was suffering from overheating and shutting down. As it says on the ‘tin’ take out the keyboard and all you need to do is carefully clean the fans. I also blew back the dirt and dust and fluff through the rear exit and collected all the muck on a cotton bud. can not believe how quiet it is now. Wow what an improvement.
October 15th, 2009 at 4:47 am
I have a problem on my toshiba satalite s60-102 series on the jack at the back of the laptop. I solred it out and asmeling again the power is work and the hdd an dthe cdrom the cpu fan as well not running theis means thre is no display on the screen i try a lot of things like changing the memory and cleaning the board but the led of the power switch is emitted what can id o for the laptop it is urgent please.
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EYOB
February 11th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Hi Laptopfreak,
The diagrams for opening up and cleaning the heat sink was very useful. I have a toshiba sa60.
I have cleaned the fan and heatsink and removed lots of dirt. The fan was making alot of noise before i cleaned it and still does after. Think i may need to replace it.
Any ideas where i can buy a replacement cheaply.
regards
Craig
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
Thank you so much for the info and the links!
About two months ago my laptop (Toshiba A60) started to give out strange noises and turned itself off only after a few hours. The surface of my laptop felt really hot. I immediately put a medium sized room fan right next to the laptop to keep it cool and it worked, it never got turn off again. But the noises got louder and louder everyday, it’s driving me insane. I thought it might also be my Hard disk, but when I unplugged the hard disk and turned my laptop on the noises remained, so I was certain it was only the fan. I’ve no idea how to fix it though, or what actually happened to the fan. Then I saw this article and I must say it really helped, it really showed me the problem. Thank you! I was ready to throw my laptop away because I couldn’t stand the noise.
Just like the article suggests, removing the keyboard alone is enough. Trust me, I’m basically very awkward with electronic devices especially computers but opening the keyboard is really simple, just read the guide and do it. The problem is, I don’t have compressed air with me. But that’s not an issue either. I got myself cotton buds, wet it a little with alcohol-based cleaner (now this might actually damage the surface of the fan and heatsink, I don’t know but I really didn’t care at the time. I don’t think so, though.), and reached the heatsink with the cotton buds. Particularly the area marked by the red line in the last link article’s picture (http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/04/27/toshiba-satellite-a60-a65-problems/). Just by doing that I got chunks of clogging dust out. My intention was just to shake the dust off so I could vacuum it easier but I got more. But anyway, after that I used home vacuum and suck the remaining dust off the fan and the fan-heatsink area.
Now my laptop is much quieter and it doesn’t get overheated even after long hours of using. Hopefully it will stay that way for long.
I guess what I want to share is, that it’s okay to use vacuum for this particular laptop and particular area, and using cotton buds+alcohol first to get the thickest dust out would make things easier. Please note that in my case static electricity wasn’t an issue, but it might be for you especially in winter.