Troubleshooting Introduction - Toshiba Satellite A500D Series Maintenance Manual

Tables
Table 2-1 Battery LED ........................................................................................................10
Table 2-2 DC-IN LED.........................................................................................................11
2.1

Troubleshooting Introduction

Chapter 2 describes how to determine if a Field Replaceable Unit (FRU) in the computer is
causing the computer to malfunction. The FRUs covered are:
1. Display
2. USB Floppy
Drive
3. Keyboard
4. USB ports
5.TV-Tuner
6. Touch Pad
The Diagnostics Disk operations are described in Chapter 3. Detailed replacement
procedures are given in Chapter 4.
The following tools are necessary for implementing the troubleshooting procedures:
1. Diagnostics Disk (Repair and Sound Repair)
2. Phillips screwdriver (2 mm)
3. 6mm nut driver (for the helix screw nuts on the rear ports for CPU door)
4. 2DD or 2HD formatted work disk for floppy disk drive testing
5. Sycard (EXPRESS CARD test card)
6. Cleaning kit for floppy disk drive troubleshooting
7. Cleaning kit for optical drive troubleshooting
8. Multimeter
9. External monitor
10. USB compatible keyboard
11. Multimedia sound system with line-in and line-out ports
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7. Speaker
8. Optical drive
9. Modem
10. Express card
unit
11. Wireless LAN
12. Camera
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13. Bluetooth
14 HDMI
15. Display port
16. SPDIF
17. MIC
18. Finger
19. FM Tuner
20. E-SATA
21. Felica
22. UWB
23. 3G
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