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.
May 15th, 2011 at 10:10 am
jonathan,
Do you mean remove onboard memory chips and use the laptop with external memory?
Read comments in this post: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/04/27/toshiba-satellite-a60-a65-problems/
Some people said it’s possible. I haven’t tried myself.
May 14th, 2011 at 5:57 am
Can’t I just remove the memory and use the single slot its self ?
August 16th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Ok. Finally after holidays spent at seaside (thinking about my poor disassembled laptop placed on my desk at home…) this night I reassembled the whole thing.
This post is from my laptop. IT WORKS AGAIN!
Obviously memory sized is decreased by 256MB, but maybe i’ll found a new cheap expansion to place in the expansion slot.
Bye!
August 4th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I have a question, my laptop has integrate memory (256 MB) can i expand this to 512 MB or something?
Thanks!
August 4th, 2010 at 3:50 am
Ok. Finally today I was able to use our desoldering station and I removed the eight chips from the motherboard. Unfortunately some other components were blown away from the board… I think they were the power supply decoupling capacitors for the components which I removed, so I think they are not necessary now, as the components they have to decouple are no more there.
This night I’m going to reassemble the laptop. Let me cross my fingers (one of them actually is holding a plaster, as I accidentally touched the soldering iron… ouch!)
July 30th, 2010 at 5:25 am
I’m going to do the same for my A60-217.
Maybe i’ll be using the desoldering station in the company for which I work, but sometimes we also use the blade method for repairing PCBs. Will post results as soon as possible.
May 16th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Agreed
Its working
rest until board was clean
Im removed 8 RAM chips on both sides motherboard
by cutting legs at one chip side, then swing chip until legs break at chip other side
after that x8 times I remove my hotrot
then I put laptop parts together (that was a puzzle)
and its working ….
THANKS guys and girls
You are great
February 16th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Thank you > I have the same problem in my Toshiba Satellite A60 laptop .. Do images for the How remove, please
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.
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!