Re: Satellite A200 - Metal fin part fell out of my laptop. Where does it go?

Hello all, My 1st post.
I have a A200 Satellite. I stupidly dropped it a few weeks ago and a thin metal strip with L shaped fins fell out. Approx 6cm long by 2cm high.
I have asked 2 laptop people but they are not really sure where it is from, they have suggested maybe "This looks like either part of the cooling vent ( check the laptop is not overheating as it might be part of the heat sink), or a grounding plate from the base cover, used to help prevent damage to the components in the event of a short circuit"
The laptop is working fine, no cracks in the casing etc, and does not appear to be overheating, fan working great. 100%.....
I have a photo of the part (that i could email)if anyone needs to see it, to help me. I just dont understand how it fell out!
Any help from anyone, on where it is from and if it is easy for me to replace it back in its correct location, would be gratefully appreciated.
Regards
Craig

This part probably belongs to cooling system and I can imagine it is heat pipe holder or something like this. To put it in place again is not so easy and notebook must be disassembled.
So my advice is to put this part on secure place and maybe one day you will bring it to service for cleaning. Then this part can be inserted in the place.
Continue to use your notebook and be happy. ;)

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I would be glad if someone can help me figure out why just one of the two partitions dropped out of my RAID and what's the best to do.
Both RAID-devices were definitely working before (according to /proc/mdstat) and I haven't changed anything in their configuration, the only thing is activating smart-support because I noticed that it was disabled for some reason, but as far as I remember this wasn't coincidential with the described problem and besides that should have affected both RAID-devices.
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smartctl -t long /dev/sdb
#waited
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smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.7.9-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Black
Device Model: WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0
Serial Number: WD-WCATR3167936
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 204f24ec5
Firmware Version: 05.01D05
User Capacity: 1.000.204.886.016 bytes [1,00 TB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Tue Feb 26 23:31:02 2013 CET
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SMART support is: Enabled
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Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
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been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (17280) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
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Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
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Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
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recommended polling time: ( 200) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3037) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
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1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
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193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1404
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SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
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1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
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sorry to bother you all with this - I recently purchased a Satellite A200-A1L and have been trying to connect it to my TV via s-video leads... I am not new to this and know how to set it up but I seem to be having problems doing it on this laptop.
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Toshiba came only with the Product Recovery CD, so all the instructions about MBR and the solutions that even Microsoft gives me (E:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 All........) it's useless!
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This isn't direct with your problem - but I was wondering if you would be able to help me? As like you I have just brought the same laptop, and there was no installation disk just the restore disk?! I am trying to open some applications in PowerPoint but it keeps asking for the product key, although I have put this in as it is on the base of the laptop, it is still stating it is wrong?!
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My guess is that some of these haven't been seated properly ex-factory. They probably work just fine, until perhaps through repeated flex on the back of the keyboard when typing, or opening and closing the lid, the connector falls out of the socket.
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There's instructions (with pictures) for disassembling the A200 on the net - use google to find them. You don't need to pull it completely apart, just to the point where you can get the keyboard out, then you can access the connector.

Satellite A200 PSAFCA does NOT boot

Here's the story.
I got this Australian laptop (A200 PSAFCA) that was shipped with Vista, but just like everyone I can't stand Vista so I removed it.
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I do not know how it looks like on Australian Satellite A200 notebooks but on European notebook models there is series where you can install WXP (WXP SP2 very important) without using SATA driver and also models where you need SATA driver (implemented using F6 when installations starts).
As I wrote in my previous posting one time I have missed something up and HDD was not visible even for original recovery DVD. After changing the BIOS settings to default, the HDD was visible again.
Please make the same and try to use WXP SP2 installations CD again. I have installed WXp several times without any problems.
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