STEP 1

Turn the laptop upside down.
Open the battery lock and remove the battery.

STEP 2

Remove two screws from the hard drive cover and remove the cover.
Remove one screw from the wireless card, memory module and modem card cover. Remove the cover.

STEP 3

Slide the hard drive aside to disconnect it from the system board and remove it from the HDD bay.
Remove the memory modules.
Remove two screws securing the modem card. Lift it up to disconnect from the system board. Unplug the cable on the modem card.

STEP 4

Carefully disconnect the wireless card antenna cables.
Remove one screw securing the wireless card lock and remove it.
Remove the wireless card from the laptop.

STEP 5

Remove one screw securing the DVD drive.
Open the DVD drive door with a paper clip.
Carefully slide it away from the laptop and remove the drive.

STEP 6

Remove all marked screws on the bottom of the laptop case.

STEP 7

To remove the keyboard, you have to remove the securing strip first.
Lift up the keyboard securing strip with a sharp object and continue removing with your fingers.

STEP 8

Remove the keyboard strip.

STEP 9

Remove four screws securing the keyboard.

STEP 10

Lift up the keyboard and disconnect the flat keyboard cable on the system board.

STEP 11

Remove two screws securing the display hinges on the back of the laptop.

STEP 12

Remove four screws securing the LCD assembly.
Unplug the video cable.
Carefully pull the wireless antenna cables through the opening in the top cover.

STEP 13

Lift up the LCD assembly and remove it from the laptop base assembly.

STEP 14

Remove four screws securing the top cover assembly to the laptop base.
Disconnect the touchpad cable and the power button board cable on the system board.

STEP 15

You can use a guitar pick as a laptop case cracker.
Insert the guitar pick between the top cover and the laptop base and move it along the side to release latches.

STEP 16

Lift up and remove the top cover assembly.

STEP 17

Remove four screws securing the left and the right speaker.
Disconnect the speaker cable on the system board.
Remove speakers.

STEP 18

Remove two screws securing the system board.
Remove a rubber plug on the side of the laptop.

STEP 19

Remove two hex studs.

STEP 20

Carefully lift up the system board and remove it from the laptop base.

STEP 21

Remove two screws and remove the heatsink from the video chip.

STEP 22

Remove two screws securing the CPU cooling fan, disconnect the fan cable on the system board and remove the fan.

STEP 23

Remove four screws securing the CPU heatsink to the system board.
Lift up the heatsink from the CPU.

STEP 24

Unlock the CPU and remove it from the system board.

STEP 25

Toshiba Satellite M65 laptop disassembled.

In the next guide I show how to remove the screen.