The Libretto is the father of today's netbooks, this little laptop can support up to 32MB of RAM memory and 2GB of HD. There's the support for an external screen thanks to his docking-station, and it has a bundled floppy drive too!
Difficulty: Medium
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O que você precisa
Este teardown (desmontagem analítica) não é um guia de reparo. Para reparar seu/sua Toshiba Libretto 50CT, use o nosso manual de serviço.
This is very small, the dimensions are about 21x11,5x3
The best OS fitting inside it is Windows 95, the base RAM is 16Mb (yes, that's 16!) and the bundled HD has 810Mb of memory.
There is no floppy integrated, only a PCMCIA slot, a IR port mapped as COM2, a mini-jack for audio (back), a speaker, the power connector and the base attachment.
The screen is about 6", 16-bit color, the backlit is powered by a CCFL light as usual in LCDs.
Before starting with screwdrivers it's better to remove first the battery.
It's like nowadays notebooks, move the slide-button and pull the battery.
The battery-pack contains 9 batteries, as usual 1.2v each 1200mAh; that makes 10.8v, enough to power the HDD, the PCMCIA, the screen and the processor at the same time.
Note that's it is using the multi-layer technology, patented and seen on some other models such as ZENITH Systems, this allows the boards to be much smaller, but it's very hard to see the tracks.
First remove the glued tapes at the bottom, so you can access the two screws that hold the upper part.
With a screwdriver take away the MousePad.
The pad is nice to use, confortable and easy to handle, you only have to get a little pratice, notebooks have abandoned this kind of pointing device from years, but in my own it's still excellent.
Now you can see the screen, the power elevator for the lamp, the controls and the speaker.
Don't touch any part of the left circuit, it's dangerous to touch it because it handles high voltages for powering the CCFL lamp; take it from the edges and handle carefully.
Unscrew where shown with a Phillips cross screwdriver.
Carefully move the screen to access better the rear cables.