15. Exchange Motherboard

After removing the battery and the HDD, you will need to remove all other screws at the bottom. A very convenient feature of the Toshiba notebook is that every screw has a small ID. This simplifies the disassembly and the assembly.

At the rear-side of the notebook you need the remove these two screws.

Above the keyboard is a small cover. This can be removed by lifting it up.

Below that cover are the two screws that connect the keyboard to the chassis.

After you remove all the screws that you can find from this side, you will be able to lift up the complete display with the top cover of the base in one piece.

The DVD drive and the FDD can be removed in a snap. The CPU cooler is mounted with four screws. The fan is on top of the northbridge. The cable over the subwoofer must be removed, as well as the small connector board.

After you have removed three spacer screws near the subwoofer, the four spacer screws at the CPU and the other three screws near the edge of the board you can carefully lift the notebook motherboard.