• Changing Battery In Toshiba Laptop

STEP 4.Remove one screw fixing the battery.Peel off the clear tape securing the battery cable connection. Unplug the battery cable from the motherboard.STEP 5.The Wi-Fi antenna cables and the DC jack harness routed on the left side of the battery. Un-route these cables from the guided path on the battery. Remove the battery.STEP 5.Remove three screws fixing the hard drive bracket.

Changing Battery In Toshiba Laptop

Unplug the hard drive SATA cable from the motherboard (yellow square). Remove the hard drive.If you plan to replace the hard drive or upgrade it to a SSD, you will have to transfer the bracket and cable to the new drive.STEP 6.Toshiba Satellite E45t Ultrabook motherboard has two memory slots. You can leave both memory modules connected unless you plan to replace or upgrade them.STEP 7.Remove two screws attaching the cooling fan to the case. Unplug the fan cable from the motherboard.Remove the fan and replace it if necessary. The original fan part number is printed on the green label: AB07505HX060300.STEP 8.Unplug both Wi-Fi antenna cables from the wireless card.Wi-Fi cable with a white sleeve connected to the port #2 (Main port).STEP 9.Remove two screws securing the Wi-Fi card and Toshiba 32GB cache SSD. Both cards will pop up at a 20 degree angle.Pull both card out of the slots.This step is optional unless you plan to replace the Wi-Fi card or cache SSD. You can leave them connected to the motherboard.STEP 10.The DC power jack is mounted under the hinge.

Let’s remove the jack.Unplug the DC jack harness from the motherboard and remove two screws securing the hinge.STEP 11.Open up the hinge to release the jack.Lift up the DC jack from the case and remove it.STEP 12.Disconnect the following cables from the motherboard. Speaker cable (red square). Keyboard backlight cable (yellow square). Keyboard data cable (orange rectangular).

USB Audio SD card reader cable (green rectangular). Touch screen video cable (pink rectangular)Here’s how to release the USB Audio SD card board cable.Lift up the white locking connector tab and pull the cable out.The keyboard cables connectors are different. On the following picture I show how to release the data cable but the backlight connector is similar, just smaller.Slide the locking tab about 2 millimeters to the shown direction (two red arrows). Pull the cable out (yellow arrow).Unplug the touch screen video cable using the black belt on the top.STEP 13.Remove one screw securing the hinge.