Comments on: Toshiba Satellite A65 laptop will not boot because of bad memory

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:10:45 +0000

jonathan,

Can’t I just remove the memory and use the single slot its self ?

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.

By: jonathan

jonathan — Sat, 14 May 2011 13:57:40 +0000

Can’t I just remove the memory and use the single slot its self ?

By: Stefano

Stefano — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:15:31 +0000

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!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:03:13 +0000

I have a question, my laptop has integrate memory (256 MB) can i expand this to 512 MB or something?

Thanks!

By: Stefano

Stefano — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:50:15 +0000

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!)

By: Stefano

Stefano — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:25:28 +0000

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.

By: dnetsky

dnetsky — Sun, 16 May 2010 18:32:32 +0000

Agreed

Its working
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 rest until board was clean

then I put laptop parts together (that was a puzzle)
and its working ….

THANKS guys and girls
You are great

By: Baghdadi

Baghdadi — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:23:24 +0000

Thank you > I have the same problem in my Toshiba Satellite A60 laptop .. Do images for the How remove, please

By: Glitch

Glitch — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:20:24 +0000

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.

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:41:10 +0000

julio jaquez,

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.?

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!