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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 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).
UPDATE: Your HP Pavilion dv9000 notebook might be eligible for a free repair.
In the next guide I explain how to replace broken dispaly hinge in HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop.
Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.
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January 28th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Terri,
Sure you can. I believe it’s the same type of connector as on the keyboard, I don’t remember of the top of my head.
Unlock the connector, plug in the cable and lock it in.
January 28th, 2009 at 7:50 am
Hi,
On your 11th picture on removing the keyboard, you state:
“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.”
Well, I pulled to hard and the ribbon became disconnected. Can I just plug it back in?
Thank you for the site!
January 25th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Richard,
Can you see both drives in My Computer? Can you access the second drive and find out what files you have on that drive?
I assume that system files are stored on the main drive and the second one is used as an extra storage. If that’s the case, removing and replacing the second drive shouldn’t damage anything.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Kim,
If the HP tech said it’s a software related problem, maybe it is? Have you tried reinstalling factory software from the recovery disc? Maybe you should try reimaging the hard drive?
January 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I’ve got a warning symbol flashing that says “a hard drive in the system reports that it may fail”. I ran a comprehensive examination of both hard drives. The main hard drive is 100% ok. The second hard drive has issues and it told me to replace it.
Anybody know if there is any system software on the second hard drive of the Pavilion dv9000? I can replace it thanks to the instructions given on this site but I’m not real computer savy and have know idea if just replacing the drive without knowing its contents is going to cause problems. If the only thing going on that drive is personal data I’m not concerned. Its system software that worries me. The only backup for reinstalling the software is on one of the hard drives. Help would be appreciated.
January 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I have an out of warranty Pavilion dv9000 laptop with the same symptoms as the recall- overheating, dead wireless, dead motherboard. Unfortunately the product number is not listed on the recall list, even though it seems to be the same problems as the recall. I’ve contacted HP and they wouldn’t let me talk to a tech until I paid them for a warranty, but after I paid for that, the tech didn’t help me and they said that they could fix it if I sent it in for an additional price since it was a software problem. I got the money back for the warranty, but I’m still left with a dead computer. Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Samuel,
At the end of the post I linked to the page with information about FREE repair from HP. Just in case, here’s the same link again:
Free repair from HP
Maybe your laptop qualifies for that repair.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Samuel… Sounds like the defective nvidia GPU like mine did and so many others. Mine has gone blank as well and needs a new motherboard and graphic card. I refuse to pay to have it fixed since it’s a major defect. Take a look at hp forum about this problem.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
I have a problem with my HP 9000 , At initial stage when I switch on the laptop the screen comes up blank and after a while its start to move like cloud , one side white the other black before finally switch on , after 20-30miuntes it goes blank again.
Now is permanently off with the screen totally blank.
Can anyone please tell me, what might be the problem and whether I can fix it myself?
January 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Zach,
Can you see the CD/DVD drive in My Computer?
Does it give you an error?
You can try booting the laptop from a bootable CD/DVD. You can use a live Linux CD, Windows installation CD, HP recovery disc or any other bootable CD. If the laptop boots from the bootable CD but you cannot access it in Windows, most likely you have a software related problem.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Luis Sandoval,
I doubt that removing the CMOS (RTC) battery will clear the BIOS password.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:28 am
I have been having problems with my HP Pavilion dv 9000 laptop it can not read cds even though the computer says their is nothing wrong with it. I have unistalled the drivers and still it won’t read the discs I want to say the lens is scratched or broken but it won’t read discs. I tried putting a lens cleaner but it won’t read that can you help.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Recently I removed a DVD from my hp Pavillion 9000 internal optical drive and noticed a felt washer about the size of a fifty cent piece laying on the disc. I assume it is a braking component formerly attached to the topside of the drive compartment. I removed the drive and disassembled it for further inspection and would like to know if there is a simple fix for this, i.e. glue it back into position? If so, then with what adhesive? The drive will not function without this washer in place.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
sir,
I will like to know how to use the functions on my pavillion dv 9000. If possible, is their a website that i can use? I’am new to the computers and their high tech. Please help, i need a manuel bad.Robert Tetor
January 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Hey many thanks for made a site like this.
Pls, i need some helpr more,
I have a hp pavillion zv5257la, but a cant find the rtc battery for clear the f… bios password.
Is a older notebook but i need use for some homeworks. Please response this questiions, i trie everything , thanks
January 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Unfortunately i do not qualify. I have determined that it is a faulty GPU but HP will not come clean to the problem. There are hundreds and hundreds of people like me out there that are not being taken care of by HP for something that they did wrong. Take a look here and also http://www.hplies.com. I will never purchase another hp product ever. Their customer service is just a joke…really, they need to step it up and until they do i will no longer consider a product from them. Sorry for my rant but people deserve to know. – Dustin
January 13th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Dustin,
So, the laptop worked fine with the same game before and running complete system recovery didn’t fix it? Sounds like a hardware related problem and most likely it’s related to the video card.
By the way, did you read about free repair from HP in the comment 40? Maybe your laptop qualifies for that repair?
January 13th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Hi everyone. I’ve recently had a major issue with my nvidia 8600m gs graphics card. I was playing battlefield 1942 and all of a sudden the screen lagged and then went to a black screen that was blank then it appeared as the monitor turned off. I powered off my notebook and turned it back on and now the graphics card is no longer working in windows. It has forced me into 640 by 480 resolution with 4 bit color and I cannot change it at all. I have tried to update the drivers many times, uninstalling the device completely and reinstalling it many times and tried many versions of drivers and NOTHING seems to work. I am still stuck in this resolution with the video card not working. In the device manager under display adapters there is a yellow caution symbol next to the name and under its properties it says: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) Current driver version is 7.15.11.145 but i have tried the latest driver on the nvidia site.
My system specs:
HP Pavillion dv9000 notebook running windows vista home premium 32 bit SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 1.50GHz
2GB Ram
I tried a system restore once and it worked until i played the game again. I dont think its the game because i’ve played it for years now and nothing like this has ever happened. I’ve never had a single issue with my card until this. I havent recently fooled with anything too so it was completely out of the blue. I also did a complete system recovery from the recovery partition on the computer but it did not solve the problem. Please someone help me out and let me know what I should do. It would be greatly appreciated. This is really quite frustrating :\. Is there a way to tell if the video card is fried or no longer is in working condition? Thanks!
-Dustin
January 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Alin,
There are two hard drive bays. Did you put the drive in the right bay? Can you see the hard drive in the BIOS setup menu?
Did you try to load BIOS defaults?
January 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I don’t know why, I took my harddrive out from the back and I put it back, the system cannot find my my hard drive. It says,” Operating System not found”. I spoke with the two online technicians and they guide me through a lot of steps and told me that that’s the SATA driver problem that I need to update the SATA in order to do it. It really become a mess to me. Can anyone help me? I tried to use the discovery disc also, in the progress of the 2nd disc, it just stop and said ” cannot load bitmap X:\Res256\BANNER.BMP”. I know my hard drive has no problem becuase I tried to use the other device to testify it and it works. Any suggestions? Thanks so much.
Also, to those people who wants to send the computer to recall, I think their services is very speedy and it cost me nothing but around 10 days of wait time. So, it’s always good to do that before your warranty expire.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Jody,
THAT’S RIGHT.
CHECK OUT THIS POST.
Free repair for some out-of-warranty HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario laptops
January 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
John,
Do you know if the video card is integrated into the motherboard then you’ll have to replace the whole motherboard. You can do it yourself.
1. Find the motherboard part number. It’s usually located in the memory compartment.
2. Buy a new motherboard.
3. Download hardware maintenance guide for your model.
4. Follow disassembly instructions in the manual and replace the motherboard.
Are you sure that your problem is related to the video card? Could be just bad memory module.
January 6th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
HP has a recall on the notebooks having the wireless adapter problems. I think you have to contact them and they will send you a box to send in the laptop. My brother in law went this route and had it back in a 1 1/2 weeks. I had mine fixed through Best Buy under the service contract.
January 5th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I have recently had my nvidia 7600 graphics card stop working and HP is trying to charge me a little over $400 to fix it. Does anyone know how I can go about replacing this myself? My system starts up but I get no sound and no display. Please let me know is anyone has any advice. Thanks.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I too was swindled out of my money with this expensive, HP DV9000 Laptop piece of crap, is it true that this speak and spell has a major recall.
Iv’e never dropped mine, or damaged it in any way. however my last update from the MS Mothership fried my NON compatible Nvidia Card, its made for Windows 2000!!! WTF??? Like they didn’t know this was going to happen.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I did some looking and this may help.
Good Luck.
December 28th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Like a broken record, I too have the same orange light on the front of my HpDV9000 that wont let me switch back to the blue light (allowing any wireless access). I could really use some help here.
It sounds that HP made a mistake somewhere along the line because a lot of people are having the same problem.
December 28th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Craig, Baron, Tont,
That’s strange. A few different people are having exactly the same problem with Wi-Fi on different dv9000 laptops.
Maybe it’s somehow related to the latest Windows update?
1. Try reverting your operating system back to the time when it was working properly using system restore.
2. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the Wi-Fi driver.
Something tells me it’s not a hardware related problem. It’s very unlikely that the same problem happened on a few different laptops at the same time.
Also, find out which version of BIOS is installed on your laptop and then search the HP site. Do the have a newer BIOS release? Maybe it’s a known problem and there is a fix in the BIOS release?
December 28th, 2008 at 1:05 am
I have the same problem that other people are having with their HP9000 laptop. I can`t get my computer to receive a wireless signal from my wireless router. and i have been make recovery disk and after directly for 30 minute make restart otomaticly restart again without the bios coming…please any reason. thanks made
December 27th, 2008 at 1:25 am
I have the same problem that other people are having with their HP9000 laptop. I can`t get my computer to receive a wireless signal from my wireless router. For the wireless indicator light in front is now orange on the front of the computer. I checked the device manager and it said that everything is working. I checked the router and the modem.. it also is working. Do I need to replace the wireless switch or a battery? What is my next step? Thank you.
Craig