How to remove motherboard from Toshiba Satellite L40 or L45 laptop
These instructions will help you to remove the motherboard from a Toshiba Satellite L40 or L45 laptop. I believe both models are very similar but have different names. Satellite L40 is sold in Europe and Satellite L45 is sold in the USA.
The laptop disassembly steps will not be much different from many other Toshiba laptops. Some key laptop component such as the hard drive, memory, wireless card, modem and CD/DVD drive can be accessed from the bottom of the laptop without taking the whole thing apart. Check out steps 1-6.
If you are replacing the keyboard, you’ll have to remove two screws from the bottom of the laptop. You can see them on the picture 6. They are on the left and right sides from memory slots. And after that you proceed to steps 12 and 13.
The cooling fan can be removed after you remove the top cover assembly as it shown in the step 16.