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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 23rd, 2012 at 5:18 pm
Great site. Read right through your HP DV9000 q&a’s. Would be grateful for your comment on my query. I have a DV9700. It has 2 Ram memory slots with 1GB cards. I have discovered one of the slots is faulty and if I put memory in it I am unable to boot up (blank screen). At present computer is working on the one memory slot. Can these memory slots be replaced? If they can is it lay person replaceable or a professional job? Your advice will be appreciated. Thanks
May 29th, 2012 at 10:58 am
@ Nancy,
Good thing – the power connector has a cable which can be unplugged from the motherboard without de-soldering.
Bad thing – it’s necessary to disassemble the entire laptop in order to access the DC jack.
Instructions: disassemble the laptop, unplug the failed DC jack, replace it with a new one.
May 26th, 2012 at 9:19 am
My dv9700 hp laptop power connection is iffy. I have to apply just the right pressure for it to power the laptop and charge the battery. The power supply itself is fine, as it works on my other laptop of the same type. How hard is it to have the power connection to the motheboard repaired?
Thanks!
March 31st, 2012 at 10:36 pm
my computers falls down from my table, while it was working , after that i turn it on then the screen shows just samsung icon after few seconds it turn to a black screen, then i took it to a repair store for checking, they said that my hard drive and my memory are broken, i took it back home because i think its expensive to repair a laptop for 300$, so i replace the hard drive, i already have (233 G) but the old one has (500G) now its working more fatser , but when i diagnose my ram the message said it needs to be fixed, for information my laptop is a samsung 500 G, Intel Core, I 3, 4.00GB memory, id like some help and advices , thank you so much in advance
March 21st, 2012 at 8:54 pm
sir i bought HP pamelian series last year.warenty is compaleat.my lap”s HD is not working. u tell me HD change or not
March 17th, 2012 at 9:14 am
@ Sachin Despande,
There are two ways.
1. Remove hard drive from the laptop and connect to a desktop computer. The laptop 2.5″ SATA hard drive have same connectors as a regular desktop 3.5″ hard drive so you can use same cables.
2. Remove hard driver from the laptop and install it into an external USB enclosure. After that connect enclosure to any other working computer.
You’ll find detailed guide here: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/recover-files-from-broken-laptop/
March 17th, 2012 at 3:29 am
Hi,
I also have a HP dv9000 and the same black screen problem as mentioned by Sami.
How can I extract the data from the drive so as to dump the laptop?
Thanks in advance !
Sachin
March 16th, 2012 at 5:38 pm
@ sami,
If it’s not bad memory than it could be the graphics chip failure. It’s a known issue with some HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 laptops.
Test memory again, try different memory slots in the laptop.
March 16th, 2012 at 2:52 am
hi laptop tech
my hp pavillion dv9000 it was good ..but now it has a little problem. The screen turns black and will not come back on unless I hold down the button and restart the computer. It is not the backlight on the screen and it is not the screen itself. I hooked an external monitor to it to confirm and it made that screen black as well. I run a test on the first hard drive and it pass.I removed the second hard drive cuz it did not pass..i did the same with the ram one did pass and the other did not so i removed it .now the screen wont go black as much as it used to be ,but still didnt fix the problem still go black even tho much less than before.
what should I do now thanks
March 12th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
@ larry,
There shouldn’t be any problem.