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In this guide I explain how to clean the cooling fan in a Toshiba Satellite P305D laptop. Also this guide should work for the following Toshiba laptops: Satellite P300, Satellite P300D, Satellite P305.
My customer complained that his laptop overheats and shuts off while running a game. Apparently, the heat sink got clogged with dust and needed a good cleaning.
There is no easy access to the cooling fan in a Satellite P305D laptop. You can see the air intake on the bottom of the laptop, but the fan is covered with a perforated metal sheet, so blowing air into the air intake will not be enough for cleaning the fan.
You can get better access to the fan under the keyboard. Let’s remove the keyboard.
Remove three screws securing the keyboard bezel. These screws located under the battery.
Carefully lift up and remove the keyboard bezel.
Remove two screws securing the keyboard.
Lift up the keyboard and place it upside down on the palm rest. It’s not necessary to disconnect keyboard cable from the motherboard.
The cooling fan is still covered but at least now you can blow compressed air into the fan and remove all dust from the heat sink.
First. Blow compressed air into the cooling fan through two holes on the top cover.
Second. Change the direction and blow air into the fan grill on the side. Also, blow air into the air intake on the bottom.
Change air direction two-three times until there is no dust coming out of the laptop.
March 12th, 2010 at 10:25 am
mate thank you very much this helped me out alot lol i snapped the lil flap thing to the keyboard tho but you cant really tell lol but thank you very much
July 9th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I love you forever. This was super helpful. Thanks!
July 29th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
thank you very very much for all the information ..it really helps me…good luck
April 2nd, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Lol… me(14 yrs) and my dad have a LT Satellite laptop and we opened all the screws to clean the fan.. It wasn’t working and after around 2-3 minutes of usage it would overheat. So we dissected the laptop and found a huge hair ball in the fan slot… Lol. My dad snapped the keyboard cable and now we have to use a USB keyboard. My first experiance…
April 8th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Ravi Kawade,
Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2009/11/17/fix-broken-keyboard-connector-on-laptop-motherboard/
Maybe you’ll be able to fix the connector.
April 9th, 2011 at 5:58 am
does this work for toshiba satellite a300d too?
April 10th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Ana23,
Yes, you can do same on Toshiba Satellite A300D laptop.
Here’s a disassembly guide for your laptop: http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-A305/laptop-disassembly-process-1.htm
You can get access to the cooling fan on the step 11.
Alternatively, you can try cleaning the cooling fan without taking it apart. Buy a can of compressed air and blow air into the fan grill on the bottom of the laptop. After that blow air into the grill on the side.
April 25th, 2011 at 4:15 am
How about a Toshiba Satellite M500?
June 7th, 2011 at 11:15 am
I tryed this and my satellite p305d is still cutting off i even keep a platter tray layed up side down under it so the sides of the computer does not get covered up and it still runs hot and cuts off just not as much as before