how to unlock touchpad on toshiba laptop

You can use a small piece of soft plastic. I’m using the guitar pick as a case cracker. These are regular male-female connectors.Īfter all screws removed and cables disconnected you can start separating the top cover assembly from the bottom cover. In order to disconnect the video cable, just pull it up by the clear tab attached to the connector.įinally, disconnect the web camera cable and power button board cable. Slide the locking tab about 1-2 millimeters to the shown direction.Īfter that pull the cable from the connector. Simply lift up the golden connector and unplug it from the card.ĭisconnect the touchpad cable the same way we disconnected the keyboard cable in steps 4 and 5.

Here’s how to disconnect wireless card antenna cables. Remove screws securing the top cover assembly.Īlso, it’s necessary to disconnect wireless card antenna cables from the wireless card. Unlock the keyboard backlight cable connector same way as the main connector. Now you can pull keyboard cable from the connector. On this picture the same connector shown in the unlocked position. NOTE: the locking tab must stay attached to the connector base. Slide the locking tab (brown piece) about 1-2 millimeters to the shown direction. Here’s the main keyboard cable connector and it’s shown in the locked position. In the following three steps I explain how to unlock connectors. It’s necessary to unlock both connectors and release cables before removing the keyboard. Be careful, there are two ribbon cables connected the keyboard to the motherboard.

How to unlock touchpad on toshiba laptop