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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.
March 11th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Aaron,
Are you trying to connect a SATA drive to the motherboard with IDE connector?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I have recently bought a second dv9000 laptop to experiment with. I was going to upgrade my current one that I’ve had for a little over 4 years now with no problems (except for left hinge issue). But the more I thought about it the more leary I got about tinkering around inside a perfectly good laptop. So I just hit Ebay, and found one that had a burned out motherboard. Anyway, the last part I had ordered for my “upgrade” arrived yesterday so I decided to use my day off to “build” my first laptop. For the most part everything went together nicely. My problem however is that the blu-ray drive I bought won’t connect to the connector on the system board. Is there another kind of connector I can order to remedy this? And if so, where’s a good place to get it from? My best guess is that the normal dvd/rw drive is an ide connector while the blu-ray drive is sata.
February 28th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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February 26th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
To David,
I think it’s either bad keyboard or there is a problem with the keyboard controller on the motherboard (controller is integrated into the motherboard).
1. Try reconnecting the keyboard, maybe connection between the keyboard cable and motherboard got loose/oxidized.
2. Try replacing the keyboard.
3. Replace the motherboard.
Juan A (comment 182) said:
I don’t think this is software or settings related problem. His laptop works fine with external keyboard and it tells me that settings are correct.
When you have wrong settings, it should affect both, the internal and external keyboards.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Check to make sure that your laptop keyboard layout is in US nto UK settings. Look under control panel for keyboard, then look for settings.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I have a dv9812us HP. When I hit the num lock button, the numeral keys on the keypad act as a backspace button, and the bottom rows of the keyboard type incorrect characters. A USB keyboard acts normally . Any ideas? Great site! I will definitely make a donation if you can help me with this…..
February 14th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Great instructions! I used it to take out the HP Pavilion DV9626 notebook CD/DVD drive. However, my device manager still does not recognize the drive. Flashed it with the new bios and MS FIX for the registry range. THe device manager does not even show or list DVD drives at all.
Pls let me know if you have posted a thought as to what may be the problem.
I have ordered the restore discs from HP.
February 14th, 2010 at 12:21 am
Good detailed instructions on how to take apart my laptop, thanks! Was wondering if maybe replacing my CD drive with a new one would fix my problem? If I have any disc in my CD drive I have about a 1 in 20 chance of my laptop even starting up beyond a blinking cursor. If I pop it open then it miraculously starts about 2 seconds later 100 percent of the time. Also if the laptop is already on and I insert a CD it rarely runs it, just makes a very loud whirring sound. What’s up with that and how can I fix it? Darn laptop is only 2 months out of warranty….grrrr.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Amy,
I think this could be either bad hard drive or memory.
Enter the BIOS setup menu and search for hard drive and memory diagnostic tools. Test memory and hard drive.
The laptop has two memory modules installed. You can try removing them one by one and run the recovery process with each module individually. If one of the modules is bad, the recovery process will run successfully when the bad memory module is removed.
February 11th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
My hp dv9000 appears to have some serious hardware issues. I turn it on and just get a black screen with a blinking cursor. I tried to do a system recovery from my recovery disks. As soon as I enter the second disk, I get a message that says something to the effect of “cannot load bitmap x: res256 banner.bmp”. If I click ok, my pc shuts down. If I don’t click ok, it seems to stop the recovery process. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.