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.
Do you need spare parts for your laptop? Search here by the laptop model and part description.
December 18th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Hi, I have a TOSHIBA SATELLITE M30 so I have been using the M35 disassembly guide which is similar. I got to step 14 where I have to disconnect all these cables. Is there a proper way to disconnect them so I do not damage anything? I’ve removed the antenna cables and the ribbon cable already, but for the others, I do not just want to pull them out.
Thanks!
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:15 am
i need help, this comes and goes but really scares me, sometimes my fan makes kkkkkkk noises,and it runs incredibly loud, is there a solution to this?
November 17th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Hi, I have exactly the same problem as on the previous note on January 23rd by Cri8tor but I can’t see a response above. I have had my laptop working perfectly for a couple of years and its a Toshiba A60 but now off and on it will freeze, screen will go black then it will reappear in 4 bit and come up with ‘The ati 2dvag display driver has stopped working normally.’ How do I fix this problem? Is it something to do with my Ati software?
Many thanks
November 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
My Dell Inspiron 1521 laptop keeps getting extremely hot and freezing up on me all the time, in the past 2 months i have gotten the computer completely wiped and still running into the same problems. I have noticed that my fan never seems to be on and that when i set my laptop on my lap it practically burns my skin. Someone told me to look under device manager and see if my fan is listed but i still cant even find it there, my laptop is just over a year old so this is disappointing. If anyone could please help me on this matter that would be grealy appreicated!
October 9th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
TOSHIBA SATELLITE P25-2526 CENTER FAN NOT RUNNING IN WINDOWS
All three fans run at Boot startup for 5 seconds.
Center fan (CPU fan) does not run in Windows.
Right and Left fans run in windows some what slow,
they start and stop depending on temperature.
These 2 fans seem to be OK.
I sometimes hear clicks when fans are starting.
It is the center fan that doesn’t run in Windows.
When it gets hot, I thinks CPU runs slower.
I removed fan case cover & cleaned fans with dust blower,
replaced fan case cover then vacuumed machine at car wash.
Looks like center heatsink is clean.
Toshiba Power Management Utility
Cooling Method = Max performance mode.
I updated Toshiba Console, Controls, E-Key,
Power Management Utilites and Software Upgrades.
Should I buy a new center fan?
I think the part number is K000006560.
Is that a correct part number?
BIOS shows no fan adjustment.
Would BIOS flash update make center fan run in windows?
Is it safe to flash?
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Satellite P25-S526
Win xp sp3
Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
Bios Version 2.00 release date 6/29/2004
Video Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200
Seagate HD ST9120822A stays within 27C – 50c temp
October 6th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Heya Laptop Freak!
I have an A60 and just like others on this forum, the small fan has stopped!
Since I wasn’t aware of this forum b4, I replaced it, having in mind to replace the thermal grease on both the cpu and the graphics card.
Still nothing :/ not working :S
So here’s my question, could the fan controller on the board be busted? If so, what can I do? I was on the verge of making an “y” from the cpu fan controller!
Is that possible to do, can the controller support both fans? Is it even necessary?
I’ll w8 for some answer and while I’m at it, just wanna thank u for the knowledge u’v been sharing!
Take care!
October 1st, 2008 at 3:21 am
I discovered that my A60 overheating was caused not only by dust but also by the extra 1gig memory I had installed.
It would shut down within 15 minutes until I cleaned the dust from the heatsink but then it would only run for 30 minutes or so.
After removing the extra memory it will run for 24 hours playing a dvd continuously.
Maybe a different brand of memory will not give off so much heat.
Try removing any extra memory and see what happens.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Dear Laptop Freak
i have laptop (Toshiba Satellite A110-135) i made Bios update .. my laptop stop workin, can’t see any thing on screen. i had (Crisis Recovery Bios) But not for my Toshiba satellite A110 .. so i need to change (bios.wph)file .. so please hellp
thanx so much
July 14th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hello Laptop Freak.
I have a Toshiba Satellite A60. The large Fan is broken. I need to find its number but can’t. Can you inform me where I should look? (It is already moved, so the number should be somewhere!)
Could I find the parts number when having the serial number of the laptop?!
Regards,
Rawad
June 9th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Dear Laptop Freak,
I have a toshiba satellite A65 SP176. It was working perfectly one day. When i finished working on it, i closed the display screen for it to go on suspended mode. I took it on some travelling and when i opened it again it would not turn on. None of the LED lights come on. I have tested the power cable and it is good.
The computer seems dead. What could be the problem?
Thank you very much for your help.
Arturo
May 11th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Dear Laptop Freak,
Many thanks for your help, I will do it as soon as the computer shop opens!
I just removed more than 4.5 grams of dust from the large fan, and the temperature of decreased from 77C to 56C, while the temperature of the HDD is more stable around 36C now, (before it was between 47-49).
I am pretty sure that with your advice, blowing air, and I will follow it by a serious vacuuming, the temp might decrease. I have already removed the keyboard as it was my only way to end 30min without shutting down.
Thanks!
May 11th, 2008 at 9:43 am
rawad,
I linked to the laptop disassembly guide in the post. If you want to replace thermal grease, you’ll have to disassemble the laptop and then remove the thermal module as it explained in steps 12 and 13. After that you apply thermal grease directly on the CPU.
Before you disassemble the laptop, try cleaning the heatsink with compressed air. Buy a can of compressed air and spray it inside air intakes on the bottom of the laptop. Or you can remove the keyboard (if you feel comfortable taking your laptop apart) and spray air directly into the fan. I’m pretty sure that cleaning the cooling module will fix your overheating problem.
May 11th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Dear Computer freak,
I have a Toshiba A60, and have an overheating problem.
Was reading all the mentioned information, and I think my problem could be or with the thermal grease or the fans.
Both fans seems to work properly, however, I could not see where the thermal grease should be.
I need to ask you if it is possible to see where the grease should be placed only when removing the keyboard, and if so, please do inform me where. Also, is there any specific thermal heats to each laptop? (sorry if it might sounds stupid question, but it is my first time to open it! hehehe).
Many thanks!
Rawad
February 7th, 2008 at 11:03 am
hey laptop freak, I have a problem with the a toshiba a60. when i tuen it on the blue light comes on and lights up for 5-8 secs then goes dead again.no system beeps or p.o.s.t. nothing at all.tried the batterey that tested fine and so does the ac cord. i took apart the laptop and there was no dust bunnies in the cooling cpu fan but it doesnt come on at all.any ideas ? and how could i test the motherboard or cpu ? thanks in advance….
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
I’ve had my Satellite A65 since January of 2005. Almost never used it until the last 3 months. My problem is similar to a previous one already mentioned. With very little warning, the screen freezes and I hear a little “beep”. Then the screen blinks and the color quality falls to 4 bit. Sometimes I get the blue screen and a message saying, “The ati2dvag display driver has stopped working normally.”
I did a little research and down loaded Catalyst 6.5, but I don’t know how to install it or whether I should install it.
Any suggestions?
Thank you
January 13th, 2008 at 8:56 am
well, many thanks for the great info, i have this lappy running mint now – fault free – i discovered the lappy was a victim of inexperienced hands…
touchpad ribbon on backwards !
the larger fans blades hitting the triangular spokes above it due to being snapped and reglued !
dvd writer had bad connection on the rear connector.
thermal fault due to old heatsink compound not being removed – someone just added more ! was very hard and dry.
but my worst discovery was a strange graphics fault / crashing / blue screen / rebooting/ no boot and thanks to previous posts i diagnosed the onboard ram to be faulty, this fault wouldnt show for days then would appear.. oh no a smt job.
removed the smt o/b ram – what a job – 11 years since i worked on smt and its got smaller !
i tried the wire pull option but far too aggressive for this one so opted for the pin cutting and solder pad clean up, took 3 hours – sorted it and have photographed close up every stage of it if any one needs help with this bit, quality head mounted magnifier,very fine soldering tools,sharp quality scalpel are needed, along with steady hands and a bit of courage – avoiding the other smt components.
note… the onboard ram doesnt need to be replaced, the machine will run off the extention slot ram fine.
thanks again to you mod and all the other contributors.
Trev j
January 7th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
I just wanted to add my thanks for the awesome instructions. My wife has an a60 that has been overheating and shutting off for a while. Thanks to your guide I was able to take it apart, clean it up and put it back together (correctly, with no left over parts :0) in no time. The laptop is much more quiet now an runs a lot cooler.
Thanks for making a hero out of me…for tonight anyway.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Trev,
Can you see the DVD drive in the BIOS setup menu? Can you boot the laptop from a bootable CD/DVD, for example generic Windows XP CD?
It’s possible that you cannot see the DVD drive in Windows and touch pad is not working because the operating system is corrupted. If you can boot from a CD, try reinstalling Windows, it might help.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Shane,
No, I didn’t. But if your laptop is dead and will not turn on, there is no recovery floppy disk that can help. In order to use any floppy disk your laptop has to be in working condition.
Do you get any LED lights when you turn on the laptop? Does the power LED lights up when you plug the AC adapter. Maybe the AC adapter is dead and there is nothing wrong with the laptop? You can test the AC adapter with a voltmeter, it should output 19V.
January 5th, 2008 at 3:27 am
hi,
i have just purchased an A60 – followed the stripdown no prob apart from the keyboard cable. does it pull out from the connector or does the connnector, the black bit act as a retainer as i dare not force it.
this a60 come to me with non functional dvd drive,touchpad and the r+l buttons and the larger fan sounds like its worn as its grating on its surround, is the sys board likely to be faulty with regards to the dvd and touchpad being dead? ps no dvd regognised in windows either,
cheers trev
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I also have a crappy Toshiba Satellie a60 whiuch during a BIOS upgrade froze and then overheated and shutdown. Now i have a dead laptop with no way to fix it. I’ve come accross on other sites a method with a crisis recovery disk and a power up method which is supposed to boot up the floppy disk and rewrite the BIOS. Have you heard of this method? No matter what i press I cannot get any thing to happen. I guess im SOL and Toshiba laptops I will never purchase again. Seems to me all teh issues with thsi system should be a recall, but they have chose not to do such a thing. If it was an automobile it would be recalled.
October 30th, 2007 at 1:11 am
Hi Excellent guide, have followed the steps to clean the fans etc but on powering up my A60 all i get is the blue power lights up, the dvd drive makes a slight noise and the front panel power light lights up. Apart from that nothing. Guess mother board is fried but would welcome any comments from someone more knowledgeable
Cheers
October 15th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
ineedhelp,
It’s easy. You can access the hard drive if you remove the hard drive door on the side of the laptop. Remove one screw, remove the door, pull the hard drive.
If you look at the keyboard, the right arrow key pointing to the hard drive door side.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
I have a toshiba a 65 and it has died on me, i have moved on to a newer model..however i would like my data that is stored on the hard drive. I bought an enclosure kit but i am not sure where or how to remove just the hard drive!! PLEASE HELP!! THANKS!
September 16th, 2007 at 6:17 am
my time laptop, when turned on makes a screeching noise and tells me to press f2 but the keys wont work please have you any sugestions
July 12th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Lex,
Here’s an article dedicated to Toshiba Satellite A60 and A65 problems. Check out the problem number 3. Maybe you have a loose power jack and the the power LED goes off because the laptop is not getting any power at all?
You can backup all personal files even though the laptop is not functional anymore. Remove the hard drive and use an external USB enclosure to access and backup all important files.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Hey guys,
I have a HUGE problem. I mean huge and I am getting sick of my Toshiba Satellite A65 failing on me. I bought it a while ago and updated an extra 512 megs of ram. Everything was fine. A year later or so the resolution changed to 4-bit and got a blue screen or sometimes had to restart it. So I turned off my graphics card and didnt get that problem. But then I cant play back movies and all the things with a graphics card. So here is where the fun starts. The laptop started to turn off for absolutely no reason. I dealt witht his problem and after a while it stopped. Ok so I then removed the keyboard and found plenty of dust in both fans. I removed it with a vaccum and q-tips. So I turn it on and the fan sounds quieter and everythings is running smoothly. I even got a laptop cooler to prevent this again. Now here is where Im really frustrated. I got the blue screen thing 6 months later. Restarted it and its all good. Then got the turn off thing once. Worked fine for 3 months. Now the ultimate problem. It turned off after being on nfor acouple of hours. The LED light doesnt even show up. Adapter is fine, tried the battery as well. Ok an hour later, i plug it in and the LED is on and green. I turned it on, it worked for about 20 mins and shut off. The LED light wont show up again. I checked and there is no dust in the fans. I rarely get the LED light on, and if it turns on, it will turn off in a minute or too. This is like the end for this laptop. Does anyone know what is causing this? Any solutions? Or should I just throw the piece of junk out the window with all my important files?
April 23rd, 2007 at 12:46 pm
I have a Satellite A40-SP150 in spanish. After I upgrade the memory to 786 Mb I get a mesage that say “Caution, there is a refrigeration problem with the machine, turn off inmediatly and take it to service”.
I checked the fan and it runs but I´m not sure if properly. Could be a problem with the fan? if that, which part number is the correct fan for this machine?
Thanks
Jairo
(Venezuela)
March 21st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Hi,
I have a Toshiba A40 that I got second hand. It was full of viruses and spyware so I reformatted. Got all the latest drivers and everything was fine for a few days. All of a sudden the screen went really, really dark. It has remained that way since. Every now and then it will be back to normal but most often it is dark… too dark to use
It is dark even as it boots…. Any suggestions?
February 4th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Thanks for the a60 instuctions, I could kiss you
I wouls have snaped something if not for you.
Cheers:)