How to tighten loose display hinges on Toshiba Tecra M4 or Satellite R15 Tablet PC
Do you have a Toshiba Tecra M4 or Satellite R15 Tablet PC? The display is loose and wobbly? Probably it’s time to tighten the display hinge. Both Tecra M4 and Satellite R10/R15 Tablet PCs are very similar so you can use the same display disassembly instructions.
In order to access the display hinge you’ll have to remove the LCD cover. There are four screws securing the hinge, I pointed them with red arrows on the picture above. Tightening these screws will help to make your display less wobbly.
You can find spare display parts for your Tecra M4 Tablet PC here and for Satellite R15 Tablet PC here.
Common part numbers for Tecra M4 display panel:
LCD screen (SXGA+) - P000435180
LCD front cover (LCD mask) - P000456100
Screen inverter - P000450450
Common part numbers for Satellite R10/R15 display panel:
LCD screen (XGA) - P000423090
LCD front cover (LCD mask) - P000423570 or P000463420
Screen inverter - P000352650
Topics: Screen problems, Disassembly help, LCD screen, Display hinges, 8. Toshiba Laptops |
September 11th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I have a Tecra M4 and the screen quit working, i tried to kook it up to a LCD monitor and cycle through the screen outputs and still got no signal. Does this mean my graphics card is dead? Please someone let me know what, how, and if it’s worth to fix.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Mark Soileau,
First of all, I would check the memory module, it’s possible you have a bad module. Most likely you have two memory modules installed. Try removing them one by one. Test the laptop with each memory module separately. If your laptop starts with one module but no with the other one, the last module is bad.