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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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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
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 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?