HomeI have a Toshiba Satellite A65 laptop. It will not boot. I tested the memory – it tests BAD. There is NO additional memory. The additional memory is accessed from a little compartment on the back of the unit. But the unit has 256mb of onboard memory. I assume it’s the permanent memory that’s bad. Is this permanent memory soldered into the motherboard? Or is it replaceable? Is this fixable?
Toshiba Satellite A60 and A65 laptops have onboard memory – it’s permanently soldered into the motherboard. You can see the onboard memory on the following picture. It’s located right by the memory expansion slot, under the foil.
If the onboard memory is bad, you’ll have to replace the whole motherboard. You can use this disassembly guide to remove and replace the motherboard. Take it apart at your own risk.
Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.
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April 3rd, 2009 at 10:18 am
HI A60 A65 MOTHERBOARDS WITH FAULTY ONBOARD MEMORY
DOES NOT REQUIRE A NEW REPLACEMENT BOARD ALL THAT IS REQUIRED IS DESOLDERING THE 8MEMORY CHIPS MODULES
UNDERNEATH GOLD TAPE AND THEN SIMPLY BUY NEW STICK OF 1GB MEMORY A PLACE IT IN REMOVABLE MEMORY SLOT
PROBLEM SOLVED
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:35 am
AZZZA,
That’s true but this is only for experienced technicians. You can easily damage the motherboard while removing those memory chips BUT if you have nothing to lose, you can try it.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:55 am
I have a question about this. How can I remove the onboard ram without damaging the system board. I already have the taken system board out. I will like to know if there is a right way or just disolder the board.?
April 23rd, 2009 at 7:41 am
julio jaquez,
Check out this comment, it has a suggestion:
I find it easuer to just cut the legs on the top of one side of he chip with a very sharp blade and then wiggle the other side to break it clean. You can then remove the legs with a small wattage iron (12w-15w I suggest). Keep the tip clean!
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I used an exacto knife to carefully cut the memory chip legs on one side then just bent the chip over till the other side broke off. I then used the exacto knife to finish breaking off the legs I cut. Did all 8 chips this way and put the computer back together. Runs fine. Just ordered a 1 GB memory chip to replace the 256 MB in the expansion slot. Didnt desolder a thing. Works great.