Keyboard detection problem

1. Take out the battery and AC adapter, unplugged from the wall, enusre the laptop is fully powered off.
2. Remove those screws with a T-8 or Phillips screwdriver.
3. Turn the laptop back over and open it up. Check and see if the Toshiba Satellite A85-S107 keyboard is tucked under any plastic pieces. If so, find them if those plastic pieces are screwed into anything, and unfasten them as well. If not, it probably uses clamps that can easily be removed.
4. Remove the plastic pieces carefully.
5. Unscrew any screws at the top (if necessary) and remove the keyboard itself from top to bottom. You'll notice that the keyboard is connected with a thin, but wide, data cable to the system board at the bottom.
6. Disconnect the data cable attachment of the keyboard which will sever all the remaining attachments of the laptop keyboard with the laptop computer motherboard. To remove this cable, you have to just carefully pull it out from the socket to which it is attached. Then you can lift out the entire keyboard out of the laptop.
7. Take the new Toshiba Satellite A85-S107 keyboard out of the plastic and place it inside with the right orientation, attach the data cable.
8. Refasten the keyboard in place at the top.
9. If you had to remove any plastic pieces, carefully snap them back in and replace any screws you had to remove.
10. Turn the laptop over and replace all of the keyboard screws.
11. Put the laptop battery back in place and switch it on to check Toshiba Satellite A85-S107 keyboard functionality. If everything has gone according to plan, you should be ready to type away!

I have a Toshiba Satellite L355D that would not detect the CD Rom in the BIOS although the Rom appeared to powered up and running. I traced the problem to a ribbon cable connector that was between the jack the CD Rom plugged into and the jack on the mother board. The ribbon cable plug at the MB had backed out and was only making the power connections to the Rom making the Rom appear to be operating.

Hi,

The type of hard drive that is compatible with that model laptop is IDE/PATA not SATA.



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Follow this through, it may be over kill but at least it has pictures for you so you know what to expect getting into the fan
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-A85/replace-laptop-memory-2.htm

restore it to factory settings

chek in bios setup your hard disk is detect or not.
when u power up the laptop press F2 or DEL or F5 or F12 then u see bios menu.then if your hard disk not detect disable sata.if u detect your hard disk set harddisk as first boot device then save settings.

but if u see first windows then blank scrrreen u need to do nothing.just do following.
when u power up the laptop press F8 key then u get safe mode and etc menu.
go to enable vga mode thwen u enter in windows xp set your display resolution to 800*600 or 1024*768
thats all.

Hello this is for uprading the memory , But does show how to remove the keyboard
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptops/Toshiba-Satellite-A85/replace-laptop-memory-1.htm

Good Luck .Joe

do you have restore disc that came with laptop if you use this to reformat coputer yes it should help

If you boot a XP cd and select repair will it let you type?

Sounds like a motherboard fault/short, especially if youv'e got on board graphics and if there are smells coming from fan.