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Nothing lengthy, just an overview. Please read this. These are the professional, official documents published by the various laptop makers, either for their own technicians or for the use of the general public. There are blogs and forums that post small numbers of these manuals every now and then; what I hope to achieve here is the most complete repository of laptop disassembly and service manuals available on the internet. I do not charge for downloads. This is not a community-run project where some files turn out to be incomplete, or the plain old user manual you already have, or completely the wrong thing. I do not hide files behind pages designed to confuse and delay you under the guise of providing a difficult service.Basically, click on the model number of your laptop below, and you’ll have all the information you need on how to take it apart. These files, and the information contained therein, is entirely owned by the original publishers, be they Dell, Sony, Acer or anyone else.You might also consider that there are online businesses that make a profit reselling your copyrighted material who pose a far worse threat than I. That falls back again on the original publishers, who themselves generally use the same disclaimer. What you do with your own property is your own business, and I cannot be held responsible for anything that goes wrong in the course of using one of these service manuals. Actually performing those repairs is something many people, including myself, frequently charge hundreds of dollars for. If by coincidence you’re after one of these, email me and I’ll see about getting it to you ASAP. If you have problems downloading a particular manual, I recommend using a download manager of some kind. If that doesn’t help, let me know and I’ll try emailing you the file directly. Email me, and we’ll work something out.
I might find several manuals for similar models at the same time, all of which I’d put up here as well, which could save ten other people the same trouble. Know of another site with the same idea as here. Email me and you could have the gratitude of fifty happy people! I don’t sell repair manuals, or require you to click on ads or sign up for anything to get them. Donations are not required, but are appreciated, so if I’ve helped you out, consider throwing a few bucks my way! I’ve finally categorised pretty much everything now, so here it all is! That’s enough for most people though, so I’m listing them here: Instead I had someone tell me quite bluntly that “those manuals are our intellectual property and we will not distribute them in any way, shape or form”; after mentioning I’d had someone help me out before, they asked if I remembered who that was, because “that’s a punishable offense in this company”. Sorry, ASUS, but that’s just terrible service compared to many other brands. Not only could I not find an easy source for the part, when I rang BenQ to enquire about getting a service manual I was told “BenQ’s service manuals are confidential documents and cannot be distributed outside our service centres.” I can completely believe they do their best in that, as I’ve only ever found these four manuals. This would be a brand to avoid, IMHO. Medion laptops are probably all made by FIC. It’s hard to dig through the layers of notebook badge engineering, but I’ve seen more Clevos here in Australia than any other brand, so rebadged laptops will end up in this section. Look up your service tag or model number there and you should be able to find it.
Consider this single contribution so far to be the promise to hunt down more alien material: Only one IdeaPad service manual has surfaced on the net, covering three models: Until I have some time free to update what’s available here on my site, here’s what I’d found previously: Here’s what I’ve found: Best way to sort through it is to go through it letter by letter with your Toughbook’s model number, pick the one that’s closest and see if the titlepage lists the variables that would match yours. Proceed as you like, but it may be a hairier repair than you might think. Still, I’ve got what I’ve got, and what I’ve got is right here: He contacted Sony, and their most helpful suggestion was that they could repair it for him at great cost. Any manuals available on the internet are illegal, and Sony takes this policy very seriously.” Avoid. I’m currently attempting to negotiate with Toshiba to allow me to continue sharing these manuals and I’m hoping for a positive response. All we can do right now is wait and hope that Toshiba will follow in the footsteps of IBM, Dell and HP and allow their customers access to the repair manuals for their own laptops. Please read this for details. Unfortunately, this means all Toshiba manuals are permanently gone from my website. If you are in need of a Toshiba repair manual, I urge you to contact your local Toshiba representative and ask them why they have decided to work against its customers in need of support. They have been separated by manufacturer for easy retrieval. They have been separated by manufacturer for easy retrieval. Tim’s site is one of the only places online to get ad- and malware-free, manufacturer-authorized manuals. Check out the full editorial I wrote on the situation for Wired. We’ve known about the infuriating and elaborate ways manufacturers will keep users out of their own hardware.
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We’ve known about the unfortunate extension of copyright law to repair documentation—that’s a big part of why we got started, after all. And less repair means more disposable culture, more toxic mining and manufacturing, and fewer jobs in independent repair shops. But when people do attempt repair, they are far more likely to damage themselves or their equipment if they don’t have a good manual with appropriate safety warnings. We want to write a free and open repair manual to replace the manuals that Toshiba took away. We currently have manuals for just a few Toshiba laptops, but we need more hardware to take apart. You can help: These are the devices we want.) Great! Let us know, and we’ll send you hardware once we get it in. We’re no longer asking for donations but if you have a device you need to fix, try looking for a guide on our site or creating one yourself. You can also check out our Toshiba guides to see how your donation is used. For example, replacing an iPhone screen costs almost as much as the device itself! Esto ultimo es casi una odisea para los desconocidos: nunca pude entrar o reemplazar los 2 modulos de memoria debajo de la cubierta superior debajo de los altavoces. Mi modelo es el P70A-AST2GX1. Hey Look Over There! Many years ago, one of the absolute worst customer experiences I ever had concerned a Toshiba laptop that never worked properly -- which was followed by ridiculous and rude service. Eventually, using the famous Consumerist Executive Email Carpet Bomb process, I was able to get things sorted out (and, despite them asking me to sign an NDA, when I sent it back crossed out the exec called me and said it was fine and that I was allowed to talk about the situation). Since then, however, I've stayed away from Toshiba laptops entirely.
But having had that experience, somehow it doesn't surprise me that, among the major laptop makers, Toshiba would be the one using copyright law to try to hide its service repair manuals (story found via Slashdot ).Well, until Toshiba's clueless lawyers got involved. Toshiba gave Tim a list of excuses for why he needed to take their service manuals down -- most of which made little sense. But, this is just one of those cases where it's stupid to apply copyright law. It's not as though Toshiba needed copyright as the incentive to produce these manuals. No, the only reason to assert copyright here is to try to limit repairs to authorized dealers, which limits the usefulness of their products to the public. In a sane world, this would be a case of copyright misuse. But, when it comes to copyright, we don't live in a sane world.Tim's response is a good one, noting that none of the other major laptop makers seem to have this problem. So, either Toshiba makes crazy-dangerous laptops. It's likely the latter.Safety is an incredibly important issue, and I applaud Toshiba for taking it into consideration, but I think they are a little misguided. I have personally never been injured or visibly endangered by working on any kind of computer system, much less a consumer notebook computer. I have also never heard of anybody else being injured by working on one. While I do understand the drive behind any concern for safety, the reality is that there appears to be no risk to the well-being of myself or any of my readers by providing repair manuals free to download, and so I do not understand Toshiba’s cause for concern here.I would not seriously take this to mean that Toshiba laptops are inherently more dangerous to service than laptops of other brands, thus causing them to discourage unqualified persons from doing so, but drawing on my own knowledge and experience I cannot see what risk they are attempting to mitigate here.
With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community. We do not have a giant corporation behind us, and we rely heavily on our community to support us, in an age when advertisers are increasingly uninterested in sponsoring small, independent sites — especially a site like ours that is unwilling to pull punches in its reporting and analysis. But in order to continue doing so, we need your support. We offer a variety of ways for our readers to support us, from direct donations to special subscriptions and cool merchandise — and every little bit helps. Thank you. We can't give you a disc, you might share it. And if we are saving cents by not providing them that is good business practice.So in theory, feel free to circulate it. (Much like the reason that Sun always offer free solaris verion of SunOS on their website.Instead they put on that program to burn your own discs which no one ever does despite the constant pop-up warnings telling them to and the fact that it's about a 3 click process.Odd, I know, but my brand new Toshiba has a DVD drive without CD writing capability.It is the Tormenter of Threads, the Harpoon of Hand-tools, the Twister of Torx, the infamous.I remember a few years ago at a gaming forum some people started a hoax to fool a 13 member into thinking that another member died when their computer got a virus that caused the computer to explode.A Big no no now! As for the service manuals, there are multiple places to now get them, and I myself have a few of the Toshiba ones from PDF files.I don't think Toshiba actually say you're only allowed to get work done at an authorised repairer, only that only authorised repairers can have access to their manuals.Along with the other important advice not to burn them.
Service manuals are vital when you need to do a repair or upgrade and before I even buy a new laptop I like to find out the service manual so I can truly understand the laptop. Acer though like to be very active in taking any distributed service manuals off-line only leaving the user guides alone. I certainly agree that laptop disassembly is a process not for everyone when some people can cause more damage and even fail to understand how to reassemble the parts. For me though I have a history of assembling computers and their step by step guides are easy for follow. The best part of Acer laptops is that they are designed to be easily assembled and upgraded when other manufacturers can make that impossible.I found an Acer tower system in the trash, that looks brand new. The only thing wrong with it is that someone removed the hard drive before throwing it out. In the process they also removed the HD cage and left it loose inside the case. For the life of me, I can't figure out how it's supposed to attach to the chassis. I looked for a service manual, then contacted Acer. Instead they suggested that I take it to a local computer shop and have them figure it out.The service manuals being easily available are one of the biggest reasons I prefer Dell products. Sure, they don't tell you how to disassemble an LCD to get at the backlight, but it got me most of the way there.All of them told me that they had regular overheating issues with Toshiba laptops. I'm talking about stock, off the shelf laptops with no user modifications. And those five people had everything from the cheapest laptop model available to a high-powered laptop that could handle current games fairly well. I had classes with two of them.
They'd bring their laptops (two different models--at least one was a Toshiba Satellite I remember) and a cooling pad with them to class, and even then, at least once every 2 or 3 weeks the one or both of the Toshiba laptops would overheat during the class period to the point of automatically shutting itself off. I can't ever recommend anyone to buy Toshiba laptops after what I've seen from Toshiba owners. (All five of those people replaced their laptops with a different model within a year) Stick with Lenovo, Dell, HP, Asus, etc.Along with all the friends I have who switched to Toshiba from all the other manufacturers. Not a single problem whatsoever, and no overheating ever experienced. And I'm saying that from my own ownership and the experiences my friends have had, all of us buying Toshiba exclusively for over 5 years now. And, due to the fact that I'm the IT person for my company, I've switched us from buying HP and Dell laptops to ONLY Toshiba laptops due to their reliability in my experience. In point of fact, I've NEVER had a problem with a Toshiba laptop but have had nothing but problems with HP, Compaq, Dell, etc laptops since I first started buying laptops and working on them in general. As for manuals and customer experience, Toshiba has gone above and beyond for me personally. Of course, YMMV (your mileage may vary). But seriously, experiences differ. You and your friends have had overheating issues, at work I've had to recommend cooling pads for all the laptops made by every other vendor except Toshiba and ASUS.Toshiba never acknowledged the problem nor offered a fix for it publicly. Their low-level repair techs didn't know about it, and the phone support people just read from a script that, naturally, never acknowledged that Toshiba was shipping computers with crippled CPUs. But their upper-level repair techs knew about it and could use special software to change the settings to allow the CPU speed to change.
Eventually this software made it into public notebook forums, where it was aggressively taken down by Toshiba, citing copyright and the other ridiculous excuses outlined by That Anonymous Coward, above. After using the Toshiba CPU utility to get my system to dynamically adjust the CPU speed, guess what happened.Actual hardware failures aside, it comes down to end user support. You say you've had excellent support from Toshiba - am I right in assuming this is for your business. I've seen companies bend over backwards to help a business customer while blithely ignoring the little guys, because who pays more money, right.Only this past January did I start buying for the company I work for, and I register them as personal laptops. Same as I always have. But like I said, never had a bad experience with a Toshiba laptop.Back in the mid-80's, I was employed by an IBM Series 1 VAR (Value-Added Reseller). They were planning to become an IBM PC VAR, so they sent me to IBM PC Repair school (a week-long course on basic PC repair.) There I was told that PC repair was a profit center for any VAR. So clearly Toshiba is greedier than those companies who release their manuals as they don't want independent PC techs and repair shops fixing their computers when their authorized dealers and the main company itself can profit from repair revenue. I've noticed that Toshiba machines tend to be more expensive than others and with less support for some time. I'd never recommend a Toshiba laptop to a client.Eventually they will ask me to repair it and I like that fact that I can get all the manuals and support for just about nothing.In the past 20 years, companies have decided that they can only make their enormous profits if they withhold service literature and password protect medical devices. The only way they can thwart us is by not training us and not providing passwords or service manuals. It's a huge cost to healthcare, when we should be reducing costs.
In 1998 I found in a trashcan a cute 20yo portable cassette-recorder which looked like a gem. Problem is, it was faulty with burnt PCB tracks and dead caps. For a 1970 cassette recorder. Huge loss of profit, indeed. So it's the same old story, covered with pathetic twaddle about 'copyright' and other prattle about 'safety'. The truth is that they DON'T want their older products to be easily fixed, but rather chucked in the bin to sell you a new one. In fact, in no way the famous Service Centres will repair your old gear at a decent price. Certainly not with Toshiba's outrageous spare part price lists.I did a lot of research for longer battery service, light weight and maximum ram space. I also wonder, at times, whether buying a Norton internet security was a foolish idea. Toshiba and Norton have made my life miserable. I hate every minute I spend on my laptop.I waited about 2 more weeks and the case was cracking anf starting to break apart from being over stressed each time I raised the screen.I opened it up and found all the brass threaded nuts that were imbedded in the bottom of the case were ripped out of the case bottom. To make this shorter I lustened the hinge tention bolts to make it open easier and epoxyed it cack together. This cannot be right as it takes about 30 seconds to remove the keyboard and anothe minute to install another one.I actually loaned it to my brother, as he's not tech savvy and didn't own his own computer, and managed to get some very sticky cola all over the keyboard, LOL. I did replace it once and it was working great till the OEM replacement I had started falling apart. I've since found a better designed replacement on Amazon and after putting it in, isn't powering up.
Seeing I had to use 3M Double Sided tape affix the wrist rest back to the frame because all of the small cheap plastic connectors snapped when gingerly taking it apart, some of that aluminum or tin tape came up with the double sided stuff so I don't know if that might have had something to do with it. Go Figure Eh? Well, I guess I'll have to see what I can find online, although not too optimistic because Google loves to filter their results and give me tons of links with all of my search terms removed from the results. What the hell is this world coming to. Between me giving up on Apple as a long time customer and some of the other crappy companies out there I need to find a better laptop manufacturer.Sign in now. Want one? Register here Sign in now. Want one? Register here Hey Look Over There! For more information, see our privacy policy.Register or sign in to use it. Close Alert Close The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security More Chevron Story Saved To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Close Alert Close Sign In Search Search Backchannel Business Culture Gear Ideas Science Security Kyle Wien s Opinion 11.12.2012 06:00 PM The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence Toshiba has discovered a new way to enforce such planned obsolescence by cutting the repair market off from critical service information. But the cost to society is significant: The e-waste problem is growing; we’re losing thousands of domestic jobs as independent repair shops shut down; and consumers are being forced to replace their hardware much frequently than they should have to. Facebook Twitter Email Save Story To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories.
Tim Hicks is a 25-year-old Australian with an interesting hobby: He trawls the nooks and crannies of the internet looking for manufacturer service manuals and posts the PDFs online for free. Hicks was frustrated that there wasn’t a single website out there with every laptop service manual. Tim's site now streams over 50 gigabytes of manuals every day. Or rather. it used to. In a recent strongly worded cease-and-desist letter, Toshiba’s lawyers forced Tim to remove manuals for over 300 Toshiba laptops. Tim’s many fans have expressed surprise at Toshiba’s onslaught -- check out some of the Reddit commentary -- and I’m outraged, too. Keeping manuals off the internet ensures the only path for beleaguered customers is sending broken devices back to high-priced, only-manufacturer-authorized service centers. By making it so expensive and inconvenient to repair broken electronics, this policy amounts to planned obsolescence: many people simply throw the devices away. Toshiba has discovered a new way to enforce such planned obsolescence by cutting the repair market off from critical service information. But the cost to society is significant: The e-waste problem is growing; we’re losing thousands of domestic jobs as independent repair shops shut down; and consumers are being forced to replace their hardware much frequently than they should have to. The Shady World of Online Manuals Many manufacturers don’t publish manuals online, so they’re only available from third-party sites with suspicious names like “Givemefile.net” and “download-service-manuals.com.” These sites create networks of ad-riddled pages for each file in an elaborate dance to boost their Google juice above their competitors’. Tim is one of the good guys. His site is ad-free and supported by donations. Tim’s website benefits everyone from service technicians to nonprofits like Computers for Schools. Independent shops wouldn’t be able to repair modern cars without this information.
Unfortunately, there’s no equivalent legislation for electronics. Authorized technicians leak the manuals to people like Tim, who post it online; the service shops aren’t breaking any laws when they use these manuals to fix our computers. But sites like Givemefile.net, download-service-manuals.com, and Tim’s are breaking the law. It's illegal to redistribute copyrighted service manuals without manufacturer consent. Even so, a number of websites provide these critical documents to the service techs who need them. File sharing is a grey world. Yet this is a strong deterrent only theoretically, because copyright claims are only intermittently enforced. Tim hosted Toshiba’s manuals for three years before he heard from the company. (And he was fortunate: Toshiba was satisfied once Tim removed the information.) Copyright law does exist for good reasons. It’s designed to promote creativity by protecting content creators for a limited period of time. And you can copyright a poem, but you can’t copyright facts like torque specifications. Major electronics manufacturers like Apple and Toshiba do copyright their service manuals; Apple has been using legal threats to keep its manuals offline for years. In fact, this information vacuum is what drove me to start iFixit. The electronics industry moves too quickly for this to be a serious concern. By using copyright law to cut off independent service shops from the information they need to function, Toshiba is essentially stifling the resale market. Its actions also hurt Toshiba customers by reducing the resale value of Toshiba products. Apparently, some IT departments are already considering shifting their budget away from Toshiba products toward more repairable computers. Procurement policies are a powerful tool for change. (EPEAT, the green federal procurement tool, was used to pressure Apple this summer. So I have high hopes for this process.
When the auto manufacturers refused to provide independent shops with the information needed to fix cars, consumers banded together for Right to Repair legislation, which passed just last week. There's no reason we can't do the same. If market forces are unable to persuade Toshiba to reverse course, we may need to force them to. It's time for big manufacturers to stop hiding behind copyright laws and stop keeping independent repair technicians in the dark. This information needs to be free. The world desperately needs to know how to fix these products. Electronics repair is critically needed to solve the e-waste crisis; it helps bridge the digital divide by keeping secondhand electronics and developing countries’ markets alive; and it accounts for hundreds of thousands of jobs in the United States alone. So if you’re considering buying a Toshiba laptop, don’t. And if you’re a current owner, write Toshiba and tell them their actions are reprehensible. Buy from manufacturers who do make service documentation available online, like Dell, HP, or Lenovo. This should be true for our other purchasing choices, too: Because the problem is not unique to Toshiba. No cell phone manufacturer, for example, makes its service manuals available. Outside of the heavy equipment industry (where customers demand the information) and the automotive industry (where legislation requires publication), it’s a rare manufacturer that doesn’t use copyright as a tool for controlling us consumers. But I’m not going to wait for Toshiba: We’re raising funds and hardware on Indiegogo to collaboratively write open source manuals to replace the ones Toshiba forced Tim to take down. Launched out of his Cal Poly San Luis Obispo dorm room in 2003, iFixit has now empowered upwards of 15 million people to. Read more Twitter Topics apple Copyright gadgets indie Tech Policy and Law WiredOpinion WIRED is where tomorrow is realized.
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