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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 see, in my case there is no second hard drive under the cover.
If you would like to install second hard drive into your notebook, you’ll have to purchase a new SATA drive, SATA connector and drive caddy. You’ll find step by step hard drive installation instructions in this guide.
we will refer to all HP Pavilion dv9000, dv9000t, dv9100, dv9200, dv9300, dv9400, dv9500, dv9600 & dv9700 notebooks as the “dv9000″ since adding a hard disk drive (HDD) to all above mentioned notebooks are 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. You’ll find more detailed laptop disassembly instructions in the official service manual for HP Pavilion dv9000 (3.72MB pdf file).
UPDATE: Your HP Pavilion dv9000 notebook might be eligible for a free repair.
In the next guide I explain how to replace broken dispaly hinge in HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop.
Static electricity can kill your laptop. I recommend wearing an anti-static wrist strap while working with internal parts of your laptop.
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November 10th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Bill,
I really doubt that you can buy this clip separately. I guess you can search for a dead motherboard on eBay (if you can find any) and pull this clip from the bad board.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I recently had my DV9000 apart, and my zif connector holding the keyboard ribbon cable inside the m/board connector broke…does ANYONE know where/how to get a replacement for just that little retaining clip? It’s a pain my arse not having all the keys working!
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:14 am
Guys I use to have one of those Laptops, paid £ 1800 two years ago and last week either the screen or the graphic card wend. To repair the dv9000 would have cost me far more than buying a new PC but this own thing made me feeling very strange, other people with the same Laptop reported very similar problems and many of the machines were send back to HP for this reason, just 3 months after the warranty was run out.
To be quite honest HP has lost me as a customer I have my nose full.
October 21st, 2009 at 2:54 am
please suggest me my web cam is not open
October 7th, 2009 at 5:30 am
Thank you very match!
I took today from the assistantance center guys witch forgot to reconnect the keyboard flat cable :”’(
Now my netbook works again!
September 24th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Can anyoane recommend me one or more relliable sellers?
September 19th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Pyi,
Sounds like a problem with the video chip. The video chip is integrated into the motherboard and cannot be removed or replaced separately. When video chip fails, it’s necessary to replace the whole motherboard.
The best way to find a new motherboard is searching by the HP spare part number. In most cases HP places a sticker in the memory compartment and the motherboard part number can be found on that sticker. The part number will look similar to this: 450800-001
You might have different digits in this string but it will be the same format: XXXXXX-001
Find the part number and google it.
Depends on where you buy the motherboard. Look for a reliable seller with good return/replace policy.
Most likely you’ll get a used/refurbished motherboard even if you buy it directly from HP.
September 18th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Hello.
I have a HP Pavilion dv 9000, wich was bought more than 2 yers ago in US, but I used in Romania. About 3 weeks ago, vertical pixel strips appeared on the monitor, and later tha monitor turned black. The Windows was starting, but there was no image. I try connecting my laptop to another monitor but it didn’t work either. I tried restrating the laptop, and after many times of doing that, I managed to get the image back, so i tried reinstalling the Windows. I managed to reformated the partition, but the when the Windows instalation reached about 70 %, the screen turned black again and it’s like this ever since. I had the laptop checked by a local service, one that it’s not connected with HP, and thy say it’s a problem with the video card; but it can’t be replaced alone, only with the motherbord. Now I have 2 chices:
1. Either a use the services of an HP affiliated company in witch case only the motherboard will cost me about 380 euros, or
2. I buy the motherboard my self and let the local change it.
My questions are:
Is it the problem caused by teh video card?
If it is, how I can find the part number of my matherbord?
And, those motherbord that I cadn find on the internet, are they reliable? Is it posible ther are used motherbords, rather the new ones?
Thanks.
September 10th, 2009 at 7:18 am
many thanks got keyboard off net for £12 pounds pc world wanted £85.00 scratched my head till i found your site took me 20 min to do once again…………….. many thanks xx jeff
September 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am
I have a pavillion us9220. the system starts to boot up, showing MS windows loading, then when before it gets to the start up page, the screen just goes blue. I called HP, they told me I need to do a system restore on it, and see if it helps. I did that, but still getting the blue screen.
Some one said I might need a hard drive or might be the mother board, is there a way to check these out before I go buy a hard drive? Appreciate your help!!
August 29th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Laptop Tech,
I was wondering if you could give me some advice. I have a HP Pavilion dv9700 laptop. Recently the CD/DVD drive just stopped working. It is not showing in my computer or in device manager. I have followed instructions editing the registry and using Microsoft’s Fix-It program. None of these fixed the issue.
I have tried removing the drive blowing the inside of the laptop and re-inserting the drive with no luck either. I am starting to think it is a bad drive. But why would it just not show up anywhere in Windows?
Thank you in advance,
John Wood.
August 28th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Rodrigo Sarapa,
I think your diagnostic is correct. Sounds like a problem with the video card.
If you take a look in the service guide for HP Pavilion dv9000 and dv9200, you’ll find out that the video card is integrated into the motherboard.
Also, make sure to read this article: Free repair for some out-of-warranty HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario laptops. It’s possible that you can get a free repair from HP.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Laptop Tech,
I have a notebook hp dv9233 with a problem similar to the others cases, but in my case, the video not works in the laptop LCD and works corrupted when I plug an external monitor. Besides, I can start the windows with the external monitor, but only in safe mode.
I think that can be a problem with the graphics card, but I would like to know if in this notebooks the video card is integrated in the motherboard or I can replace only this part.
Thanks for you help!
August 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 am
Can someone explain why my dv9’s 2nd hdd won’t come out when i try oulling that plastic piece?
August 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I need to find the risers that go on the board and come up to meet the arm of the screws to the heat sink assembly.
August 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am
Jack,
I’m not answering some questions not because I’m ignoring them. I just cannot keep up with all incoming questions.
You can download the service manual for your Pavilion dv9335nr here (it’s a pdf file and might take some time to download). The manual has step-by-step laptop disassembly/assembly instructions. It might help.
You’ll find the heat sink removal/installation instructions on the page 196.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:54 am
I want to make a DONATION too. I just need some help with my problem. My post is number 101 on this site. I would really appreciate some help if anyone has any ideas.
Thanks,
Jack
August 18th, 2009 at 10:46 am
George,
If the second motherboard fits your laptop there shouldn’t be any problem. More video ram will boost the laptop performance.
Nope. I think it’s just a coincidence.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:45 am
My Pavilion laptop was recently diagnosed with having a bad video card (ie. I need a new motherboard). My current board’s part # is 434659-001 (includes 256-MB of video RAM) but according to my manual there is also part #434660-001 with a video RAM of 512MB. Can I install the other motherboard without any performance issues?
FYI, it came with Vista so I recently upgraded the memory from 1GB to 2GB. Any chance the memory upgrade caused the video card to go bad?
August 13th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
The Swede,
You’ll have to test external video output, it will help you to narrow down the problem.
Test your laptop with an external monitor attached to the VGA port.
1. If the laptop works fine with an external monitor, but video on the laptop LCD is corrupted, most likely you have either bad LCD screen or video cable.
2. If both screens do not work properly, there is a problem with the graphics card.
Check out HP’s Limited Warranty Service Enhancement program. They fix some out-of-warranty dv9000 laptops at no charge. Your laptop might qualify for this repair. Call HP and find out if they can fix it for you.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Dear all!
My sons DV9000 with W7 suddenly only shows a curtain of pixel stripes all over the display. We don’t know if this has some connection with downloading another graphics driver to be able to play some of his internet games or what…
At some occasions there has for a short while been a working display but not any more. As soon he played one short web-TV movie the display went wacko.
Is this possibly related to the graphics card? We can hear W7 booting allright but not see it.
If you fellows out ther don’t have a solution to the problem, I guess we have to consider changing the mainboard or throw it in the dustbin?
Tx in advance!
August 7th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Andre,
“I have a HP dv9309ea, I formatted the Vista and loaded XP Pro with service pack 3, everything works well until I tried install bigger memory module. The notebook comes standard with 2 512meg modules, I inserted 1 2GB module and all I get is 4 beeps, black screen and a flashing led power light. HELP HELP HELP”
Posible causes: Memory is not compatible with board check mfg. website. Also you say you replace two chips with one bigger one. some mother boards require two modules installed to function properly. Try replacing the 1 2GB with 2 1GB and this may solve the issue. Also Check the Max amount of memory the board can handle. 2GB might be to big for one slot on this board.