Toshiba LaptopToshiba Portégé Z30-A
Toshiba Portégé Z30-A Disassembly
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the Toshiba Portégé Z30-A to remove and replace the battery, SSD, keyboard, wireless card, RAM, heat sink, cooling fan, speaker, and motherboard.
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Remove all screws from the bottom case.
Some screws are hidden under the rubber mat.
Open the bottom case.
Toshiba Portégé Z30-A bottom case was removed.
Now you can get access to the battery, wireless card, RAM, SSD, DC jack, speaker, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
Remove four screws securing the battery, disconnect the battery connector from the motherboard, and you can remove the battery.
The laptop comes with a 14.8v, 52wh Li-ion battery.
Separate two clips and the RAM will pop up automatically.
It has two Samsung 4GB PC3L-12800S 1600MHz RAM, and the Toshiba part number is G4BC000207S0.
Remove two screws securing the SSD, and take it away from its slot.
The Toshiba Portégé Z30-A comes with a Toshiba 256GB SSD.
Disconnect two antenna cables, remove one screw securing the wireless card, and you can remove the wireless card.
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 wireless card with Bluetooth 4.0
Remove two screws securing the heat sink.
Remove two screws securing the cooling fan. Now, the heat sink and cooling fan can be removed.
Toshiba Portégé Z30-A heat sink and cooling fan
In the next step, we will remove the motherboard.
Disconnect all cables connecting to the motherboard. Remove the screws securing the motherboard.
The motherboard has been removed.
The back of the motherboard
For more guides, check out the Toshiba Portégé Z30-A device page.
Very GOOD!
Many thanks
Merci
Hi David,
got a hint for this website regarding a Z30 Satellite.
Many thanks for your work and good documentation + pictures!
Keep on working, M
Hi
A brilliant and crystal clear tear-down. Incredibly useful. Ten out of ten.
One question. My Z30 is still under warranty and I might be tempted to upgrade some parts, especially the SSD.
Are there any obvious security/tamper features on the laptop that might indicate I’d opened the case and swapped out the SSD, thus allowing Toshiba to tell me my warranty was invalid?
Would be really helpful to know. Thanks.
Hello, have you been able to upgrade SSD?
I want to do the same (with a Samsung 500GB).
Did you have any issues?
kr.
Yes, the SSD can be upgraded.
MANY THANKS
Hi,
Fantastic guide. The photography skills are also quite impressive.
If I only want to change the keyboard (I want to change a Scandinavian one to a US one), do I have to disassemble the entire laptop or is it possible to replace the keyboard without removing the back covers?
Thanks
Bryan
Hi Bryan,
It’s very hard to change the keyboard because it is glue with adhesive on almost all the surface of the keyboard.
I am an informatician, and we did this operation last month to replace the Azerty keyboard with a Wwerty.
We have been lucky to succeed, but there is still a part of this keyboard.
We used super-glue to attach the new keyboard because when we removed the keyboard, some adhesive detached and couldn’t be reused.
You need four hands to do this.
Best regards
Paul (Fr)
Hi,
Thanks for your answer. What a crazy system for replacing the keyboard!
Sincerely,
Bryan
Hi,
Just a quick question. Was it necessary to remove the back cover of the laptop to replace the keyboard, or did you just remove it from the top?
Thanks
Bryan
Hi,
It is necessary to remove the back cover to replace the keyboard since it is connected to the motherboard (2 cables you can see at the top of the battery near the screw on the left)
Regards
Thank you. Are you able to highlight the exact cable to disconnect for the keyboard? My laptop keyboard has been damaged by water, and I just need to disconnect the keyboard as it is permanently ‘on’ so that I can plug in an external keyboard to use it to retrieve data. Thanks.
Correction
There is still a little part of this new keyboard unattached.
My Toshiba Portege Z30 has the problem that the cover falls down alone and goes back by its own weight mass.
It does not stop by friction or a stop point.
Anything I can do?
Best Regards
Martin
I am facing the same problem too.
I would really appreciate it if someone could post a solution to this.
Thanks
Hello, David, this guide has helped a lot, but I need to figure out something, and I don’t want to break it, so I thought you might have an answer:
I need to replace the back cover of the LCD. I opened it up and removed everything including the screen, but I cannot seem to reach the hinges, as they are covered in plastic.
Any clues as to how to remove those?
I’d like to know this too.
Anyone done this?
I need to reset the bios.
Can I upgrade it to 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD?
As far as I know, the laptop supports up to 16GB RAM but not 32GB. You can upgrade the SSD to 1TB.
Hello, I would like to replace a speaker set. Do you know the exact name of the spare part? How is the procedure? Thank you in advance. This website is so helpful.
Hi, I do not know the part number, but I found the speaker is available on ebay.com.
Really? There are loads of different ones. I’m a bit confused. Is any speaker set for a Toshiba Portege Z30-A? Or is there a specific speaker set for a laptop with a specific part number? Thank you so much.
According to my experience, The Toshiba Portege Z30-A series laptops should be using the same speaker.
Thank you very much for helping me.
And you have clean hands and nails, which is rare in these kinds of guides/videos.
Thanks for this.
Hi, I need to reset the BIOS by removing the CMOS battery. Is it the yellow enclosure item next to the main battery?
Hi, everyone,
I tried to replace my Z30’s keyboard today, and I have to say that the adhesive was so strong that I ruined the old one. The new keyboard definitely needs some new adhesive to stick down to the base. I tried to find one on eBay, but it is far too expensive and not worth it.
I decided to buy some thin double-sided adhesive film and put it where needed.
Will send updates of how it went as soon as I complete the installation.
Hello
I’d have a used Z30 with some missing screws on the bottom cover. Does anyone know which is the correct size to find for replacement?
Where is the CMOS battery? Thanks