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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.
February 3rd, 2012 at 10:16 am
@ greg,
It depends on the type of hard drive you have installed in the Pavilion dv5000 notebook.
If this is a SATA hard drive you can fit it into the Pavilion dv9500 laptop.
If your dv5000 has an IDE hard drive, you cannot use it.
February 3rd, 2012 at 12:19 am
i was wondering if i have a pavilion dv5000 hard drive would it fit in a dv9500 ?
January 18th, 2012 at 12:18 am
@ Ron,
I doubt this is jack related problem. Sounds more like motherboard failure.
Think twice before replacing the motherboard. There are no new motherboards out there. Most likely you’ll get a refurbished one.
January 17th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Hi Laptop Tech,
I replaced the AC adapter with a new one and swapped out the battery with my daughter’s. She has the same HP laptop as mine. Same problem. The blue ring at the jack lights up but nothing on the front of the laptop or on the screen saying its charging. With the battery fully discharged the laptop won’t boot up either since no voltage is getting to the laptop. I’m thinking I will have to replace the motherboard but was hoping there would be an easier fix like just replacing the jack.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
@ Ron,
It’s hard to tell what is wrong without testing the laptop with another battery.
Could be bad batter or motherboard failure.
What bricks did you change? The AC adapter? The battery?
January 17th, 2012 at 7:29 pm
Hi Laptop Tech,
My HP Pavillion works just fine except I can’t charge the battery. Changed bricks still no charging. I get the illuminated blue ring around the AC adapter port when I plug it in but the charging light won’t turn on at the front of the laptop and the battery indicator onscreen shows no charging. I’ve heard the AC adapter port is a weakness of the HP laptops. Is this repairable or do I need to swap out the motherboard? I’m working with a smaller Toshiba right now and I sure miss my HP’s 17″ screen.
January 17th, 2012 at 4:29 pm
@ Mac,
It’s hard to tell what’s going on without testing the laptop with another working drive.
Could be one of the following:
1. Bad connection between the drive and motherboard.
2. Failing drive.
3. Motherboard problem.
I would try reseating the drive first and see if it fixes the issue.
January 17th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
@ Mac,
Could be just a bad connection between the drive and motherboard.
Haven’t done it myself but if the new driver has same size AND connector type, it should work. It should be detected by the laptop BIOS without installing any driver. Should be plug and play.
January 15th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
So turned on the computer today and the DVD drive is not being recognized by the computer again. Looked up under bios and its not listed there either. Options?
January 14th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
So I started up the computer today and lo-and behold the DVD drive started working again with me doing anything. So Im not sure if it would do it again. Im still seriously contemplating updating the HD DVD (toshiba LS-802A) drive to a Blu ray. I found a Sony BC-5500A Blu Ray drive I liked but im not sure if it would be compatible. From the specs i found, it was the same size and same connections. Just dont know if its a plug-n-play and just need to load up the driver. what say you my friend?