HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop. Removing hard drive, memory, wireless card, keyboard.
These instructions will help you remove hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard from a HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop. All these components, except the keyboard, can be accessed through the bottom of the laptop.
In the next guide I will explain how to disassemble laptop display panel and remove inverter board with LCD screen.
Do not disassemble your laptop if it’s still covered by the manufacturer’s warranty or you loose the warranty. Are you looking for spare parts for your HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop? Search here.
First of all, remove the battery. Remove screws from the 1st hard drive and memory covers. Remove both covers.
Under the memory cover you will find the wireless card and RTC battery.
In order to remove the hard drive, lift up the right side of the drive assembly (move 1) and then pull it to the right (move2). If you are replacing the hard drive, you’ll have to transfer the caddy and connector to the new drive.
Before you remove the wireless card, you’ll have to disconnect both antenna cables pointed with green arrows. Simply unsnap both antenna cables from the wireless card with your fingers. After that remove two screws securing the wireless card and pull it from the slot by the edges.
Some Pavilion dv9000 laptops have only one hard drive installed. As you see, in my case there is no second hard drive under the cover.
If you would like to install second hard drive into your notebook, you’ll have to purchase a new SATA drive, SATA connector and drive caddy. You’ll find step by step hard drive installation instructions in this guide.
we will refer to all HP Pavilion dv9000, dv9000t, dv9100, dv9200, dv9300, dv9400, dv9500, dv9600 & dv9700 notebooks as the “dv9000″ since adding a hard disk drive (HDD) to all above mentioned notebooks are similar.
In order to remove the CD/DVD drive you’ll have to remove the securing screw (1) and then carefully pull the drive from the laptop.
KEYBOARD REMOVAL INSTRUCTIONS
Remove six green screws securing the keyboard bezel and one red screw securing the keyboard.
Carefully start removing the keyboard bezel with a small flathead screwdriver.
Be very carefull, the bezel is attached to the motherboard with a flat ribbon cable. The cable location is pointed by the green arrow. Do not disconnect this cable. Simply place the bezel as it shown on the picture below.
Remove three screws securing the laptop keyboard.
Lift up the keyboard. Be carefull, it’s connected to the motherboard.
In order to release the keyboard cable, you’ll have to unlock the connector as it shown on the picture above.
1. Slide the connector lock to the direction shown by two green arrows with your fingernails.
2. Pull the keyboard cable from the connector.
Now you can remove and replace the keyboard with a new one. You’ll find more detailed laptop disassembly instructions in the official service manual for HP Pavilion dv9000 (3.72MB pdf file).
Topics: Keyboard, Memory, Hard drive, CMOS battery, Wireless card, 3. Compaq & HP Laptops |
August 19th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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August 20th, 2008 at 7:44 am
[…] UPDATE: I just added two more disassembly guides for this laptop. 1. Removing hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard. 2. Removing LCD screen, bezel and inverter board. […]
August 20th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I have an HP Pavilion ze5200 and I need to remove the hard drive. I read your instructions for the dv9000 but my computer is not set up in the same fashion. Can you help me?
August 20th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Ryan,
I can help. You’ll find hard drive removal and replacement instructions in the service manual. Download Maintenance and Service Guide (2.89MB pdf file) here and take a look at the page 39.
September 15th, 2008 at 8:37 am
I have a HP dv9035nr. I was working with word pad over several hours when I decided to turn the system off too cool down some. It felt very warm throughout the top left and center area of the keypad. As I shut the display I heard a crack like sound, as though something had snapped or been pinched. I’m aware of the cracked hinge problems… mine is beginning to show some small seperation or a gap that looks between sealed and slightly unsealed. I don’t think the crack sound came from the left hinge but somewhere within the display bottom area. When I came back to continue and powered up I got the XP loading screen with the logo art and scan bar, but as it was wrapping up that it started to produce very large gray and black horizontal lines and some particle remnents of the windows load page art and went dead. It was still opening without screen display because I heard the windows theme play like it does when your in desk top. I attempted many tries with and without battery, removing and replacing battery and even some gentle slaps on its top and bottom sides. I plugged in an external monitor and they both came on except as it began into desk top the laptop screen went dead while the external continued operating normally. At some point or another leaving it alone for periods I got the screen to come back. I even turned it on and off before putting it away and it continued to work correctly. This AM after off all night I can’t get the screen to function. Still booting and loading just no display. What has happened ? This is a really big drag as I do my video editing on this machine and hooking an external display is unexceptable. Help!!! Could this have anything to do with the inverter box?
September 15th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Daniel,
Did you try switching video between external and internal modes using Fn+F4 key combination? Maybe your laptop stuck in the external mode after you used the external monitor. Press and hold down Fn key and then tap a few times on F4. Can you switch video back to the laptop LCD?
This problem is not related to the inverter board.
September 17th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
We have a HP dv6000 that has quit recognizing the hard drive and will not boot up. Do you have any tricks/tips to give us to get it to boot up?
September 19th, 2008 at 11:22 am
I am very grateful for your helpful detailed instructions about Keyboard R&R. Impossible to find on the HP website. This is a real service to we slobs that like to slosh coffee on our laptops.
Nemo
September 25th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I have the same problem with my 2 yr old HP Pav 9330us as does Daniel. I can assure folks my fn key and the F4 key ahs nothing to do with mine. I can’t even get the screen to come up on an external anymore….at firt it said my NVIDIA driver was corrupt. I reloaded the driver to no avail. I can get to the Vista splash screen sometimes but it locks up at that time and never recovers now. I have to shut down and I never do get windows to come up even in safe mode. Help?
September 26th, 2008 at 6:00 am
This information is very helpful. I am really greatful for the instruction on how to replace the hard drive. I didn’t know HP support can be hard to come by. I purchased a HP Pavillion dv9834 and had problem with loading software in preinstalled Vista machine. I decided to install a new hard drive with Window XP. Thank you for your wonderful service.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:49 am
I have problems with the nvidia drivers too, can’t install them without gettin a black screen and being unable to restart the notebook again to the desktop.
as long as i use the windows xp standard display mode(max 1024×768), i can work with the notebook. when i use the vista original backup..i get a bluescreen with some page error message, and unable to start until the desktop is there.
I think the video chip or memory is corrupt.
My dv9313eu gets very hot, especially during 3d games, I use a coolermaster stand, otherwise the notebook switches it self off.
ofcourse now i can’t play 3d games anymore, because of the prob;em with not being able to install the nvidia driver…..
best regards,
Ulli
October 8th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Thanks so much for this. Also for the link to the manual, which didn’t come with my computer(seems a little strange and annoying now).
Now I can properly clean all the dust and cat hair out of computer and won’t have to worry about it freezing or overheating and melting the goodness.
October 17th, 2008 at 10:54 am
This is a great tutorial, thanks.
Question, Can I upgrade my WIFI card to G or N and if so is it just as simple as buying the card and installing it as described in your tutorial.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Hi, I have a HP pavilion dv9000. I’m wondering how do you perform memory test and motherboard test to see if it function properly. I tried to install Window xp sp2 into my laptop, but during the process i encountered problems like CANNOT copy xxx files so i have to press ESC key to skip that file and that probably caused me problem more problem. Im wondering if HP pavilion DV9000 have any protection switch build inside to protect from being over-ride? Can you help me out plz. I can’t install any hardwares inside my laptop now and i have very difficult when install Window XP sp2. Also i can’t even update my system bios or install any internal or external device for this computer now. Thx a lot
October 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 am
First of all, please excuse me for my English… I am Belgian and speaks French.
I seek one « SATA connector (black plastic piece) that acts as an interface between the SATA hard drive and the HP dv9000 notebook computer ».
Can you give me a reference at HP?
In advance thank you.
Mathey jean-Marc
October 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 am
I have a problem,I have the Hp Pavilion Dv9731ca laptop which i recently reformatted.I can’t seem to find all the programs that I had in it which I got at first.This is a Bell Sympatico high speed internet promotion,sign up 3 years and get a laptop of your choice plus pay per-month.Anyways when I got it it had all the bells and whistles,now I can’t get the fingerprint reader working,and I can’t get Vista to detect my Nvidia video card I have the Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS, so how do I get to make those 2 programs to work?Oh and I have this other issue why is it now when i wanna watch a movie on my dvd rom I get a message like this the dvd you wish to watch is protected Macrovision and does not meet the Macrovision requirement to play.What the hell??? how am i supposed to watch my dvd’s???Help please and thank you.please get back to me if possible in my mail excalibur_2_3@hotmail.com.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I have a problem with my dv9000 17″. The top dropped off the end of my bed, about a two foot fall, and landed on upside down. upon retrieving and opening the top, the screen was in a large resolution and it was telling me the resolution was set smaller. I tried to restart my laptop but upon restart the screen is totally black. I hooked it up to my tv via S video cable, and it was all black and white. I reinstalled my video drivers, and the tv went black. Now my laptop has no display and will not display on any external monitor. Can someone help me??
October 25th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I’ve seen issues with this machine before, particularly with the optical drive not working. Reinstalling windows fixes the issue but it reappears a few months later. The only thing I can think to do is replace the entire drive.
-Steve
October 26th, 2008 at 3:37 am
I’m attempting to fix a sound issue for a friend on his DV9035NR which had the system board replaced. He had 2 SATA drives in it(80 gig each, if I recall correctly). He hasn’t used the drive so I thought I’d remove the OS drive and move the second drive over and install Windows XP back on to it. When I made the switch and booted my own XP install disk, it couldn’t find any drives. I put the drives back in their original locations, and tried again, and my XP install still didn’t see the drives. I then created recovery DVD’s using HP’s tool on the computer and booted the first disk. It said it it wasn’t the right recovery CD for the system.
My questions are: Should I be able to reinstall XP using a egular XP install disk, or does it require HP’s? Second, Why won’t the recovery dvd’s work with his system? Are they looking for a specific system board serial number, or, did the company that replaced his motherboard possibly install the wrong system board from another system in the DV9000 series? He had his previous system board replaced when it failed, and when he got it back the sound didn’t work. I found I can get a small amount of sound on the right channel through headphones, but nothing through the speakers.
Thanks for any tips you can give, and thank you for this page which helped get me started helping my friend.
Al
October 29th, 2008 at 6:12 am
i have been working with the hp pavillion dv9000
but just until recently, my keypad wont work. only the “t” and “y” buttons are active
October 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I have an HP Pavillion dv9000 Laptop Computer Serial No. CNF70837LN that I bought at a Staples Store some years ago. It has been working fine except that recently I have not been able to connect to my Local or my Wide Area Network.
The light on the Wireless switch remains red and I do not know how to correct the problem.
Using Diagnose and Repair results in an error message that reads ‘A cable is not plugged into the Network Adapter’. I removed the rear Memory cover of my laptop and checked the internal NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller for any loose connections. I removed and re-installed the Wireless Card according to your on-line repair tips and tricks. Device Manager reports that this device is working fine. Still no blue light. Can you help me?
Phil Kowalski
Pjkrapp@bellatlantic.net
November 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
i need to know if ther’s a way to erase everything from my HP Pavilion dv9000 and leave it with the factory setup…. as if i just bought it…… thanx
November 14th, 2008 at 4:49 am
i have a DV9000. recently it has stopped working and i cant get it to turn on. every time i try to start the thing it keeps turning its self off and tries to restart, but nothing happens. PLZPLZ help is there anything i can do to fis this problem.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Alex there is a way to do what you want .. however if you didn’t make a set of back-up discs upon first use your going to have a bit more fun.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Alex,
Gus is right. In order to reimage the hard drive back to factory defaults you’ll need recovery discs. I don’t know if these discs were supplied with your laptop or you had to create them yourself.
If you have recovery discs, boot your laptop from the first one and follow instructions on the screen.
If you don’t have recovery discs, I think you can call HP and order a new set.
November 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
HP Pavilion dv9000 keyboard was sloppy, needed some shims and I couldn’t figure out how to get the dang keyboard out. Thx for posting these instructions. They were detailed and exactly what I needed.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
hello to everyone, can you guys answer my question, i have a hp dv9260nr it does not have a bluetooth & I was wondering if is possible to add a bluetooth module or is not built to have one…thankssss
November 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I have a HP dv9000 and the problem is with the wireless switch. I havd my the battery die out and when I restarted it the wireless wouldn’t pick up. It was showing the the switch was dis enabled. Now istead of a blue function light I have an orange light. Does anyone know how to go about re enabling the switch?
November 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
adolfo,
Yes, you can add a Bluetooth module into this laptop but you’ll have to disassemble the laptop and remove the top cover assembly. The Bluetooth module mounts inside the laptop.
You’ll find instructions in the official service manual for HP Pavilion dv9000 and dv9200 notebooks. Take a look at the page 175.
Here’s the HP part number for a Bluetooth module (includes cable): 412766-001