Tip & How-To about Toshiba Satellite A135-S2276 Notebook
1) like always with anything that you do when taking your computer apart, take out the battery and unplug it (common sense)
2) Remove the plastic cover piece above the keyboard, called the
"keyboard bezel". this is the piece where you can see the speakers.
This page gives several pictures as to how to do this. http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/toshiba-satellite-a135/remove-main...
**I found it a little bit difficult to get the plastic retaining clips
to "pop" loose, but if you are careful, you can use a small screw
driver and slowly "wiggle-pry" between the two screen mounts. this is
done with the screen all the way back. you could use a paper clip with
a little 1/8" bend at tip to do this also. (it is a tight working area)
Once these three retaining clips have come loose the others are fairly
easy to "pop" Just be patient and work it slowly. once this is bezel is
off the rest is super easy.**
3) Remove the keyboard. Remove the two screws that are evident once the
bezel has been removed. These hold the keyboard in place. Lift the
keyboard up from the screw side and the retaining clips at the front of
the keyboard will lift out. (there is no need to pry here). Once the
keyboard is loose you will have to either leave it connected, just off
to the side, or disconnect it from the mother board. The keyboard cable
connector has a black clip along the top of it. just lift this clip up
a little and the keyboard cable will slide out. (the keyboard cable
does not have a fixed connector, but is just a ribbon that is held in
place by the black clip along the top of the keyboard cable connector)
Once you have removed it you will better understand what I mean.
4) Remove the wireless card. It is the only card visible at this point.
It is connected by metal spring clips. just unclip in a similar fashion
as removing ram. You do not need to disconnect the wires connected to
card, just move card over to expose area below card.
5) This is where the magic is... you will see C88 clearly labeled right
next the jack that the wireless card plugs into. There are two little
solder squares (approx 1/16") at this location. *** At this point plug
the power adapter to your computer again. ***
You will have to jump the two solder squares at label C88. I used a
paper clip to do this. I used pliers to bend a 1/8" long "L" and then
"scuffed" up the paperclip with the teeth of the pliers. (my first try
at this did not work because the paperclip had a varnish coating on it
and did not adequately conduct electricity.) Once you have your
paperclip set up (or the one you used to pry the bezel with) hold it in
place on these two solder contact squares and press the power button to
boot your computer.
6) Your computer should boot right up and bypass the bios password,
which is now reset/ erased. (You might see the Windows Error startup
screen that gives you different options of start up to choose. If you
disconnected your keyboard, just wait for screen to time-out and it
will continue on its own) Once you have booted into windows use your
mouse pad to shutdown, via start-shutdown method.
7) Disconnect your power. Reinstall your wireless card and keyboard
(with screws). Don't reinstall keyboard bezel at this time. Once
everything (but bezel) is reinstalled, restart the computer with
battery and AC adapter connected. This should boot right into your
computer without any trouble. (if for some reason it does not boot up
correctly and asks for the bios password again you will be glad you
left the bezel off. just redo the steps again.)
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