Satellite 2800-500 hinges

Ok, here's an obscure one. I've owned my Satellite 2800-500 for around 4 years and am extremely happy with it. Recently however, the screen hinges became very stiff to the point where they have now cracked their aluminium mountings just below the screen (inside the case). The laptop is now in about 15,000 pieces (mostly screws!) to gain access to the two hinges and find out what's going on.
I think they're just gummed up (technical term..!) and have removed a couple of the split rings and lightly oiled inside to try and free them up again. However, I don't hold out much hope that this will prove to be a long-term solution, so would like to find replacement parts.
Can anyone recommend some kind of supplier for getting two replacement hinge mechanisms please? They're manufactured by a company called Reell, but they just referred me back to Toshiba support. I'm trying some avenues with third party parts suppliers, but there seem to be so many different hinge parts that it would be a massive stroke of luck to find a broken 2800 laptop to salvage them from.
Any help would be most appreciated - thanks!
Mike

Hello Mike,
these hinges can normally be ordered only by a Service Partner because it is a replacement repair part!
You can try to contact a Service Partner and ask if they can sell you such hinges!
You can find a list of ServicePartners at Support & Downloads on http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com
Bye

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If you took some effort in reading this:
http://www.cdrinfo.com/Forum/tm.asp?m=84345&mpage=15??
you would have known already.
Well, you always have people who know better, and ofcourse there are always people who know better....
(euh, never mind, hihi)
Ok about the IDE error.
Vasdiak has an ide error-notification.
I didn't.
In my case it was not recognized with the ND6500 connected and the 2nd controller dissapeared in bios and OS.
Nevertheless was there the same solution for what appeared the same problem.
This (and reading lot's of info on the web) got me thinking.
In case of NEC equipment(and maybe other brands as well) basically you have to look for a real OEM drives, which are configured as Master/Slave
Bulk & Retail drives are most of the time deliverd as CLS (even though retailers/dealers say otherwise), and that's no good for Satellite Pro 4600 (and many other toshiba laptops).
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As for the Toshiba SD-R6472 DVDRW:
My guess is it's the same problem with the same solution:
1.Buy a Master/Slave configured drive OR
2.modify it yourself by:
2a.soldering pin45&47 together (like I did).
2b.flashing the proper firmware (which is not always available/hard to get), which will result in reversed ATA.
Problem is that the NEC, Toshiba and many others do NOT sell (real)OEM-parts to the end-users, even though many retailers believe they do.
But that's merely because of the lack of consensus on how to interpret the meaning of "OEM".
Fact is that many retailers sell bulk-parts as if there where OEM, but that's wrong !
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I bought a NEC-ND6500A which was OEM-specified on the website (dealer), and after informing with the dealer I bought the drive.
The NEC did not work and I,amongst a lot of other things -->, contacted NEC.
I mentioned the "OEM-story" and NEC explained.
They won't deliver GNR-version to the end user, but he also told me the reverse ATA trick and send the proper firmware via email.
Then again I decided not to use reverse-ATA-firmware because it cannot be undone, and there is less available firmware in reverse-ATA mode (no problem if you want to use official firmware only, by the way).
To make things more confusing:
GEN-version is specified as master, also by Nec, but the Toshiba does not cope with it well.
And so do a lot of other laptops that cannot recognize CSEL-drives (which it really is !!).
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The GNR-version (or GEN-version with soldering trick or reverse ATA-firmware) IS however recognized as master (or slave) drive on the 2nd controller....
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