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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 can see, in my notebook there is no second hard drive under the cover.
If you would like to install a second hard drive into your notebook, you’ll have to purchase a new 2.5″ SATA hard drive, SATA connector and drive caddy.
I refer to all HP Pavilion dv9000, dv9000, dv9100, dv9200, dv9300, dv9400, dv9500, dv9600 & dv9700 notebooks as the “dv9000″ since adding a hard disk drive (HDD) to all above mentioned notebooks is 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.
In the next guide I explain how to replace broken dispaly hinge in HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop.
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 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 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 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 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?
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.
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 7:44 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 19th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
[...] You’ll find instructions for removing hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard in my previous post. [...]