How to replace a dead fan on Toshiba Portege 3500?
I want to replace a dead fan on Toshiba Portege 3500 Tablet PC how do I disassemble to get to it?
To access and replace a dead fan, you’ll have to open the laptop and remove the top cover. Follow Toshiba Portege 3500 disassembly guide. The fan is pictured on the step 20. You can find a new fan if you search on the Internet by the part number: P000363930
October 21st, 2006 at 11:24 am
Hello I’m kind of having trouble assembling a Toshiba Satellite M35x-s149. Being the case of the matter it was giving to me to fix after some else tried to dissasemble, DC adapter was bad and had to re-soder, If some can please help in putting this thing together that will be great thanks.
Luis
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October 21st, 2006 at 11:30 am
Luis,
I hope it helps.
Here’s a disassembly guide I’ve created for Toshiba Satellite M35X (www.irisvista.com). The guide shows how to open the laptop, but if you want to assemble it back you just follow the same guide but backwards.
October 21st, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Yes I had seen this already and tried using it but I’m having trouble finding out where the ground cable that comes from the LCD screen which plugs into the mother board goes screwed into. If you can please help me that will be great thanks.
October 21st, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Luis,
For some reason Satellite M35X has a ground cable that comes from the vide cable, but you DON’T have to connect it to anything. It’s not connected to anything on any Satellite M35X. Just place this ground wire alone with the video cable.
October 21st, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Ya I figured it would be like that, but wasn’t sure. Thanks for all your help this here website is great. Once again thanks.
January 6th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
While taking apart my Fujitsu C2210, the floppy assembly got separate from the flat cable (that says “main”). I can’t figure out how to get the cable to connect back to the floppy drive. I’m not a computer person – so forgive me description, but there is a little plastic comb-like thing that the “main” ribbon either goes into, or behind, and a plastic piece that appears like it should lock the ribbon into place — but I can’t seem to make it happen. Any clues?
January 8th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Sorry JJ,
I’ve never worked with Fujitsu laptops.
February 2nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
My Hp dv4000 is stalling and I have identified a mechanical problem. When I rest my hand just to the left of the mouse/glide plate the hard drive start running again so I have concluded that a connection is loose just under the cover. I am sure of this as I can move the mose with one hand and lightly touch the case with the other and the mouse will start and stop as I touch the case. I need the disassembly instructions for the Hp dv4000. I only found the toshiba.
Thanks in advance,
Wayne
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 pm
Wayne,
You will find maintenance and service guide for HP Pavilion dv4000 notebook PC here (3.3MB). The removal and replacement procedures chapter has instructions you are looking for.
February 11th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
hi,
i’ve got a toshiba portege r100… i’ve looked through your guide on how to dismantle and replace the motherboard..
is it possible to replace the cpu? it’s currently got 1ghz cpu on it, and i’m quite keen on upgrading it to 1.6 or something around that.
please let me know.
Sohail.
February 12th, 2007 at 12:37 am
Sohail A. Rahim,
I don’t think it’s possible to upgrade the CPU on a Toshiba Portege R100 notebook. I believe the CPU is permanently attached to the motherboard and the motherboard is designed to work with this particular processor.
April 28th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Help!
I was following your disassembly instructions for the Toshiba A65 in order to get into the fan assembly so I could get out the major dust bunnies in there.
All was going smoothly until the step where I needed to disconnect the fan power plug from the motherboard.
Apparently, I used too much force in trying to dislodge it, and the whole connector came off the motherboard!
How do I fix this? Do I glue it back on using some kind of epoxy, or does it need to be soldered back on? The part is so tiny, it’s hard to see what was holding it down before.
July 10th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Hi,
I have got a toshiba portege r100. Pls I will like to upgrade the hard drive but someone just told me the maximum it will take is 60gb. Pls is this true?
2. Pls do you know the procedure to follow in carrying out this upgrade? e.g. how to connect it etc.
3. Pls could you also help with how I should go about re-installing everything again, that is (all the operating softwares that Toshiba packaged with the laptop when it was bought new). (I managed to get the recovery discs)
Thanks.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Sammy,
If the laptop can handle 20GB, 40GB or 60GB hard drive, most likely it will handle a larger hard drive too.
It is easy to access the hard drive from a Portege R100 notebook. You’ll find instructions at (www.irisvista.com). Just lift up the hard drive and unplug it from the cable.
This laptop doesn’t have the internal CD/DVD drive, so you’ll have to use an external one. I’m not sure if you have it. It’s an external PCMCIA CD-Rom drive. You plug this drive into the PC card slot on the side or your computer and then boot your laptop from the recovery disk. You can force the laptop to boot from the CD-rom drive if you press F12 on startup and select CD-Rom drive from the boot menu, or just press “C” key on startup and the laptop should boot from the drive.
If you don’t have the external drive, you can find it here, just search for “Portege External PCMCIA drive”. You should by a drive especially designed for Portege notebooks.
July 15th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Thanks for the advice. I managed to get the Portege r100 External PCMCIA drive but someone told me that using the recovery discs will format the disk and erase everything INCLUDING SOFTWARES that Toshiba installed on the portege r100 from the factory.
Pls is this true? If it’s true, Pls how can I make sure I retain the softwares Toshiba installed on the laptop from the factory?
Thanks.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 am
Hello I hope you can help me. I have an external hard drive that stopped working. One of my IT friends took a look at it and said the motherboard had to be replaced. I took the harddrive out of the casing, and was wondering if you could recommend where I could get a motherboard replacement for the hard drive, and how do I go about the replacement process? I’d like to try this myself but please understand I’m not tech savvy…
Thanks so much!!!
November 13th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
thansk for tutorial..but..how do i replace or buy..the fan, for portege 3500, cause in here i can not find.. (says distributor)
or how to make fan..from ower own..
November 13th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
hermawan,
You can find a new cooling fan for Portege 3500 Tablet PC by this part number: P000363930.
Search on Google by the part number and you’ll find it.
Follow the disassembly guide to replace the fan.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Hi,
I ‘am new to this. I got an old laptop “Twinhead” which doesn’t have any CD Drive. It has a floppy drive. but i think its not working. I observed that there is a flexibility to add a new CD-Rom drive to laptop.and also I want to fix new Floppy drive.
Problem is…I opened the laptop back screws. but the back-case is not detaching.I detached the screen also and found 4 screws. I removed that 4 screws…but no use.
can anyone suggest the way to remove bad Floppy drive and 2. Is it possible to attach new cd-rom drive?
Thank you and waiting for ur response.
December 22nd, 2007 at 4:56 am
Hi mar
u’ll probably find a screw somewhere the floppy or CD drives are usually attached by a single screw on one of the rear corners it may be under the Ram or Hard Drive Covers
hope this will help
February 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Hi,
I have trouble dissasembly my sony VAIO Z1VA, I need to replace the harddrive. Could anyone help me how to do it. Thank you before.
November 4th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Is there a disassembly guide for a Toshiba A45-S150 available? I can’t quite get the base apart from the top and I need to replace a fan or fans.
Thanks
PF
December 14th, 2008 at 1:20 am
LaptopFreak,
Hi – hope the impending holidays aren’t making you too crazy!
I have a very old but still pretty functional Toshiba Portege 3500 that has the well-known digitizer issues – the pen doesn’t get any response over large horizontal and vertical chunks of the screen. I managed to get a “working pull” digitzer from eBay and I’m ready to replace the one that’s not working… but I can’t find any service manual or guide that directly references how to disassemble the display to do a digitizer replacement. Do you know of anything?
Thanks so much!
-3P