Toshiba Satellite M40t-A Disassembly

In this guide, I will explain how to disassemble the Toshiba Satellite M40t-A to remove the battery, hard drive, RAM, palm rest, wireless network card, speakers, cooling fan, bottom case, and motherboard.

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The sticker on the bottom cover indicates the laptop model is Satellite M40t-A T02s, and the Toshiba part number is PSKP2Q-00900C.

Remove all screws from the bottom case.

Insert a pry tool between the bottom cover and palm rest. Carefully slide the pry tool to separate the bottom cover from the laptop. Please note that the bottom cover has some clips to secure it to the palm rest; take care not to damage these clips.

When the bottom case is removed, you can get access to the battery, heat sink, cooling fan, memory, wireless card, speakers, USB board, and motherboard.

Remove all screws securing the battery.
Disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard. You can remove the battery.

The laptop comes with a 4160mAh Li-ion battery, Toshiba P/N: PA5157U-1BRS.

Remove the two screws securing the hard drive.
Disconnect the SATA cable from the motherboard. You can remove the hard drive.

The Toshiba Satellite M40t-A comes with a 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive.

Use your fingernail to gently separate the clips on both sides, and the memory module will pop out automatically.
This laptop has two memory slots, but only one memory module is installed, so you can add another memory module.

The M40t-A laptop comes with a Micron 4GB DDR3L-1600MHz memory module.

Toshiba P/N: P000569660.

Remove the screw securing the wireless card.
Unplug two antenna cables and remove the wireless card.

Remove the wireless card.

Remove the two screws securing the cooling fan.
Disconnect the fan cable from the motherboard. You can remove the cooling fan.

Close-up of the Toshiba Satellite M40t-A cooling fan, OEM by ADDA

Remove the three screws securing the heat sink.

Remove the heat sink.

Toshiba Satellite M40t-A heat sink

Disconnect all ribbon cables connected to the motherboard.

Lift up the LCD hinges. Remove all screws securing the motherboard.

The processor in the Toshiba Satellite M40t-A is soldered onto the motherboard, so it cannot be upgraded.

When the motherboard is removed, you can get access to the keyboard and touchpad.

Speaker module

Toshiba Satellite M40t-A internal parts