help to replace toshiba satellite m55-s1001 fan
 

Hi, I have Toshiba Satellite M55-S1001 laptop and the fan is making a bit of a humming noise and slight grind sound, it's working I can feel breeze. I'm concerned the fan is failing.

I can almost get at the fan, see attached image, it's under keyboard but part of the fan mount is under the plastic of the interior of the case (upper left question mark) AND there's some mounting thingy (lower right question mark) I don't know what to do with.

I found web page on how to take apart this laptop, hard drive, memory, dvd/cd and to take off keyboard but it stops there.

Anyone have any experience with getting fans out OR know of a better web site that shows how to disassemble better?

Thanks

Hi glorsplitz, Here is a link.

http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptop...herboard_1.htm

Looks like page 4 has the details of the fan removal, unfortunately the board has to come out of the machine completely according to this.

Good luck. ;-)

Cool! Just what I needed, thank you.

challenge accepted
 

Hi, follow up if anyone is interested.

Found replacement fan for $5.01 + 2.99 S&H from laptopaid.com.

Looks like I successfully replaced fan, laptop appears to be running fine.

Web page Peacedog suggested was slightly different than what I ran into but got me pointed in good directions.

I was expecting more dust inside AND I didn't know some laptop ribbon cables don't have connectors, they have connector blocks that unlock and lock.

Took about a couple hours and this was my first laptop disassemble,reassemble.