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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.
June 28th, 2011 at 11:09 am
Thanks a lot I repair a load of different laptops and sometimes I just need a hint on how to remove the hard disk to replace or retrieve data from it when the laptop is dead, the doc by HP is totally useless for the DV9700 I got here, there’s no clear instructions where to find the hard drive and you helped me a lot.
June 5th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
HI!
well i have bought this DV9000 from my boss, but it has some problems it has been repaired twice replacing the motherboard, and the one was last year (2010) and since that time the internal speaker doesnt work anymore, i tried to disassemble the front panel where the speaker where and checked the connection from the speaker to this small square chip that contains also the power button, I would like to as if there is another wire/connection from this square chip to the motherboard in regards to the internal speaker connectivity that my cause the malfunction, maybe the technician that replaced the motherboard doesnt fit the connectors correctly, maybe you have some pictures more inside the board of DV9000. are can you please advice me what I can do? (dont mind the experience as i can put it all back again..but with bonus screw-darn where does this come from.hahahaha-just kidding.) will be checking for reply from time to time…thanks and nice website you got..big help
April 26th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Hi,
This guide is so useful and I want to use it to replace my laptop speakers. The other day they just suddenly stopped working and are not even recognized by the device manager anymore so I assume it’s a hardware problem.
I’ve found replacements on ebay, will they be hard to install without professional help?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
April 19th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Montana,
All personal information stored on the hard drive.
Just remove the hard drive and smash it with a hammer a few times. Now shake the hard drive and listen. Can you hear rattling noise inside the drive? If yes, it’s crashed platters rattling inside. All your data is destroyed permanently. It’s not necessary to remove memory.
Take your laptop and crashed hard drive to the donation place. They will gladly take the laptop and dispose of your hard drive properly.
Alternatively, you can buy an external USB enclosure and install the hard drive into this enclosure. Take a look at this post.
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/recover-files-from-broken-laptop/
In this case for $10-15 (cost of enclosure) you get an external hard drive.
April 19th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
My HP dv9000 is going in the garbage. The mother board was replaced in 2007, months after I purchased it. It’s a total piece of junk I paid quite alot for.
I liken this thing to the car Uncle Buck drove in the movie “UNCLE BUCK.” Yeah, so I have uncle Bucks computer!
Same problems as above:
1. Began not booting up, with black screen a month or so ago. (Trick to re-booting is to keep screwing with it. Pull battery, hard shut downs, etc.) Today that process took almost 5 hours. YUP… I pulled all my photos and files I needed from it and transfered or printed. Heck, I am typing on it right now! It’s on it’s last leg.
2. Email does not synchronize with the rest of the computer. (What on earth???) Has done this for so long I can’t remember when that began happening either!
3. HINGE on left has been broken for over a year. (One other user on this site, posted same hinge problem). Next time I am getting a Macintosh.
Basically, I almost hate this computer. I have done quite alot of family genealogy on this computer, and have stored passwords, SS numbers, banking information, etc.
QUESTION: I am told that nothing you “delete” is really deleted. So, donating it is out of the question. I do not know what to do with this computer and the information stored on it, without risking personal family information from being stolen should I donate it to a recycle place. Do I take the hard drives out, and memory too? If so, how do I dispose of those? (A bon fire?)
I simply want rid of this thing, but need to dispose of all parts properly without putting information at risk of being stolen (identity theft). How do I do this.
By the way. My spouse has an identical computer that was purchased at the same time, that has been mostly stored as spouse has a company computer. So, I get to use another identical one when I dispose of this. Yipee…I am so excited. blah!
PLEASE HELP. THANKS VERY MUCH. From Montana!
April 10th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Frank,
First of all, try removing memory modules one by one. Test your laptop with each memory module separately, try different slots.
It’s possible that one of the modules failed and the laptop will not start because of that.
If it doesn’t help, it’s possible the motherboard failed.
April 9th, 2011 at 8:19 am
I have an HP DV9500 model DV 9617. I powered off windows normally and three hours later I tried to turn laptop on again. I pressed the power button. The blue lights came on for a second and nothing happened. I changed power supply and battery and still get the same thing. I tried holding the power button for 30 sec without battery and power supply. I connected power supply and pressed power button and still got the same thing. Laptop will not power on. Any idea?
March 26th, 2011 at 11:09 am
HP9500 17inch LAPTOPget black screen, no sound. I do hear fans and it trying to power up, but do not hear the WINDOWs tone, or any tones. I gave it hard reset. still nothing. then I hooked it up to an external monitor and saw the windows logon. I login with the external monitor see that the computer operators normally, internet and all; but no sound. So….is it the graphic card on the mother board? or what? any suggestions? (I needed a working computer, so today I shelled out $800 on a DELL. No more HP for me….(originally had my HP special ordered at a cost of $1600)…now this is the third time this HP machine has given me problems in three years.
March 10th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Lars Helge,
I don’t have complete laptop disassembly instructions.
You can try cleaning the cooling module without taking it apart.
Buy a can of compressed air and blow air into the fan grill on the bottom and side of the laptop. It should be enough.
March 9th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Jean-Paul,
Remove the hard drive and start the laptop. Listen for the cooling fan noises. If you still hear same “humming” sound, I guess it’s coming from the cooling fan.