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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.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am
I have a HP dv9000 and the problem is with the wireless switch. I havd my the battery die out and when I restarted it the wireless wouldn’t pick up. It was showing the the switch was dis enabled. Now istead of a blue function light I have an orange light. Does anyone know how to go about re enabling the switch?
November 15th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
hello to everyone, can you guys answer my question, i have a hp dv9260nr it does not have a bluetooth & I was wondering if is possible to add a bluetooth module or is not built to have one…thankssss
November 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
HP Pavilion dv9000 keyboard was sloppy, needed some shims and I couldn’t figure out how to get the dang keyboard out. Thx for posting these instructions. They were detailed and exactly what I needed.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Alex,
Gus is right. In order to reimage the hard drive back to factory defaults you’ll need recovery discs. I don’t know if these discs were supplied with your laptop or you had to create them yourself.
If you have recovery discs, boot your laptop from the first one and follow instructions on the screen.
If you don’t have recovery discs, I think you can call HP and order a new set.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Alex there is a way to do what you want .. however if you didn’t make a set of back-up discs upon first use your going to have a bit more fun.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:49 am
i have a DV9000. recently it has stopped working and i cant get it to turn on. every time i try to start the thing it keeps turning its self off and tries to restart, but nothing happens. PLZPLZ help is there anything i can do to fis this problem.
November 12th, 2008 at 11:40 am
i need to know if ther’s a way to erase everything from my HP Pavilion dv9000 and leave it with the factory setup…. as if i just bought it…… thanx
October 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I have an HP Pavillion dv9000 Laptop Computer Serial No. CNF70837LN that I bought at a Staples Store some years ago. It has been working fine except that recently I have not been able to connect to my Local or my Wide Area Network.
The light on the Wireless switch remains red and I do not know how to correct the problem.
Using Diagnose and Repair results in an error message that reads ‘A cable is not plugged into the Network Adapter’. I removed the rear Memory cover of my laptop and checked the internal NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller for any loose connections. I removed and re-installed the Wireless Card according to your on-line repair tips and tricks. Device Manager reports that this device is working fine. Still no blue light. Can you help me?
Phil Kowalski
Pjkrapp@bellatlantic.net
October 29th, 2008 at 6:12 am
i have been working with the hp pavillion dv9000
but just until recently, my keypad wont work. only the “t” and “y” buttons are active
October 26th, 2008 at 3:37 am
I’m attempting to fix a sound issue for a friend on his DV9035NR which had the system board replaced. He had 2 SATA drives in it(80 gig each, if I recall correctly). He hasn’t used the drive so I thought I’d remove the OS drive and move the second drive over and install Windows XP back on to it. When I made the switch and booted my own XP install disk, it couldn’t find any drives. I put the drives back in their original locations, and tried again, and my XP install still didn’t see the drives. I then created recovery DVD’s using HP’s tool on the computer and booted the first disk. It said it it wasn’t the right recovery CD for the system.
My questions are: Should I be able to reinstall XP using a egular XP install disk, or does it require HP’s? Second, Why won’t the recovery dvd’s work with his system? Are they looking for a specific system board serial number, or, did the company that replaced his motherboard possibly install the wrong system board from another system in the DV9000 series? He had his previous system board replaced when it failed, and when he got it back the sound didn’t work. I found I can get a small amount of sound on the right channel through headphones, but nothing through the speakers.
Thanks for any tips you can give, and thank you for this page which helped get me started helping my friend.
Al