Toshiba NB100 Thermal Pads Replacement

Scritto Da: Simeon Brankov

Commenti: 1

Difficoltà

Moderate

Passi

Tempo Necessario

40 minuti

Introduzione

Passo 1

Unscrew all screws from the bottom and unplug the battery.
Flip the laptop over and by using a prying tool, carefully remove the basel above the keyboard.
Remove the 2 screws that hold the keyboard, lift it up, unplug it and set it aside.

Passo 2

Carefully unplug the cables and remove the screws that hold the panel in place.
Remove the display.

Passo 3

Lift up the panel and replace the thermal pads. Make sure they are the correct thickness..
You can also disconnect the fan and clean it too.

I've read the tut, and looked to me like a copy-paste of others, but with important parts missing. What's worst is that not only it lacks of very important steps, like removing the video cable (that is a little nightmare. BTW: YOU MUST PULL straight up to do it, and do it hard because it seem to be soldered.) but the tut also (surprisingly) warn us to use "the right thickness without providing us with the right size for the thermal pads, leaving us asking" OK, Mr... WHAT THICKNESS?" Thickness is 1mm, if you ask (17x17x1mm)... And if you are afraid of ruining something, use 0,5mm pads instead; but I use 1mm with no problems, just in case you wonder if I btoke the CPU and GPU chips.

Angel -