CPU upgrade - Toshiba Equium L40 (A Tutorial)

[naton]

UPDATE: 10th July 2011
The laptop was upgraded to a T7300.
I've tested a T4200 and it doesn't work. The BIOS doesn't support a T4*00 and T6**0 series CPUs.

STEP 1:
1- Unlock your battery and remove it (red rectangles)
2- Remove all the screws marked with green circles


STEP 2:
1- Remove the express card cover. It is located on the right side of the laptop
2- Remove the optical drive:
2.a- Remove the cyan screw
2.b- Introduce a small screw driver in the cyan rectangle and push a little bit to the left.
3- Remove all the green screws
4- Unplug the display cable (red rectangle)
5- Remove the tape (blue rectangle) and the two bleu screws.


STEP 3:
Remove the screen's hinge covers (red rectangles). For this use a flat screw driver as in

the pictures below.




STEP 4:
1- Remove the screen assembly
1.a- Turn the laptop upside down and remove the two green screws


1.b- Turn the laptop over and remove the two green screws


1.c- Turn the laptop upside up. Open the laptop and remove the screen assembly

STEP 5:
Turn the laptop upside down again and remove all the green screws


STEP 6:
Push the three green clips inside to lift up the keyboard, and then turn it over upside down


STEP 7:
Detache the keyboard and remove it (red rectangle)


STEP 8:
1- Remove/detach the touchpad cable (red rectangle)
2- Remove all the green screws


STEP 9:
Remove the tapes marked with red regtangles


STEP 10:
Detache the cables marked with red rectangles, and remove all the green screws


STEP 11:
Remove the motherboard



STEP 12:
Turn over the motherboard and remove all the green screws


STEP 13:
Clean the graphics chipset, and both heatsinks


STEP 14:
Replace your CPU, and cover both the (new) CPU and the graphics chips with a thin layer of good quility thermal past. Then, re-asseblem your laptop following the above steps in reverse order.

Good luck

[ramgen]

Thanks + rep. I like useful posts although it is not useful to me... I don't have a Tosh. laptop.


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[PapaSmurf69]

+1 rep. That's the way all tutorials should be done.

[naton]

ramgen & PapaSmurf69... thanks

[ellalan]

Thanks for this nice Tutorial, rep for you.

[naton]

Originally Posted by ellalan

Thanks for this nice Tutorial, rep for you.

your welcome

[crayonyes]

I see a good spot beside the expresscard slot for internal usb hub
if you ever needed one

[naton]

Originally Posted by crayonyes

I see a good spot beside the expresscard slot for internal usb hub
if you ever needed one

Thanks crayonyes but this laptop is not mine , and besides I'm not that good with a soldering iron.

The thing that anoyed me the most with your mod is that you've lost your external USB port . I think you should have followed the Eee PC USB hobe mod by re-routing the external USB port to one of the hob (unless you've already done that). I mean something like this http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index...ernal_Upgrades.This way you've a functional external USB port + 3 internal ones

[crayonyes]

Originally Posted by naton

Thanks crayonyes but this laptop is not mine , and besides I'm not that good with a soldering iron.

The thing that anoyed me the most with your mod is that you've lost your external USB port . I think you should have followed the Eee PC USB hobe mod by re-routing the external USB port to one of the hob (unless you've already done that). I mean something like this http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index...ernal_Upgrades.This way you've a functional external USB port + 3 internal ones

Nope, the external port is still usable
because it's connected to one of the usb hub's output

simple explanation: I route the line into a hub then give it back to the external port
Edit: Yes I have already done it hehe

[naton]

Originally Posted by crayonyes

Nope, the external port is still usable
because it's connected to one of the usb hub's output

simple explanation: I route the line into a hub then give it back to the external port
Edit: Yes I have already done it hehe

So now your external is working too?