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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.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Recently I removed a DVD from my hp Pavillion 9000 internal optical drive and noticed a felt washer about the size of a fifty cent piece laying on the disc. I assume it is a braking component formerly attached to the topside of the drive compartment. I removed the drive and disassembled it for further inspection and would like to know if there is a simple fix for this, i.e. glue it back into position? If so, then with what adhesive? The drive will not function without this washer in place.
January 18th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
sir,
I will like to know how to use the functions on my pavillion dv 9000. If possible, is their a website that i can use? I’am new to the computers and their high tech. Please help, i need a manuel bad.Robert Tetor
January 17th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Hey many thanks for made a site like this.
Pls, i need some helpr more,
I have a hp pavillion zv5257la, but a cant find the rtc battery for clear the f… bios password.
Is a older notebook but i need use for some homeworks. Please response this questiions, i trie everything , thanks
January 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Unfortunately i do not qualify. I have determined that it is a faulty GPU but HP will not come clean to the problem. There are hundreds and hundreds of people like me out there that are not being taken care of by HP for something that they did wrong. Take a look here and also http://www.hplies.com. I will never purchase another hp product ever. Their customer service is just a joke…really, they need to step it up and until they do i will no longer consider a product from them. Sorry for my rant but people deserve to know. – Dustin
January 13th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Dustin,
So, the laptop worked fine with the same game before and running complete system recovery didn’t fix it? Sounds like a hardware related problem and most likely it’s related to the video card.
By the way, did you read about free repair from HP in the comment 40? Maybe your laptop qualifies for that repair?
January 13th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Hi everyone. I’ve recently had a major issue with my nvidia 8600m gs graphics card. I was playing battlefield 1942 and all of a sudden the screen lagged and then went to a black screen that was blank then it appeared as the monitor turned off. I powered off my notebook and turned it back on and now the graphics card is no longer working in windows. It has forced me into 640 by 480 resolution with 4 bit color and I cannot change it at all. I have tried to update the drivers many times, uninstalling the device completely and reinstalling it many times and tried many versions of drivers and NOTHING seems to work. I am still stuck in this resolution with the video card not working. In the device manager under display adapters there is a yellow caution symbol next to the name and under its properties it says: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) Current driver version is 7.15.11.145 but i have tried the latest driver on the nvidia site.
My system specs:
HP Pavillion dv9000 notebook running windows vista home premium 32 bit SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo processor @ 1.50GHz
2GB Ram
I tried a system restore once and it worked until i played the game again. I dont think its the game because i’ve played it for years now and nothing like this has ever happened. I’ve never had a single issue with my card until this. I havent recently fooled with anything too so it was completely out of the blue. I also did a complete system recovery from the recovery partition on the computer but it did not solve the problem. Please someone help me out and let me know what I should do. It would be greatly appreciated. This is really quite frustrating :\. Is there a way to tell if the video card is fried or no longer is in working condition? Thanks!
-Dustin
January 8th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Alin,
There are two hard drive bays. Did you put the drive in the right bay? Can you see the hard drive in the BIOS setup menu?
Did you try to load BIOS defaults?
January 6th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
I don’t know why, I took my harddrive out from the back and I put it back, the system cannot find my my hard drive. It says,” Operating System not found”. I spoke with the two online technicians and they guide me through a lot of steps and told me that that’s the SATA driver problem that I need to update the SATA in order to do it. It really become a mess to me. Can anyone help me? I tried to use the discovery disc also, in the progress of the 2nd disc, it just stop and said ” cannot load bitmap X:\Res256\BANNER.BMP”. I know my hard drive has no problem becuase I tried to use the other device to testify it and it works. Any suggestions? Thanks so much.
Also, to those people who wants to send the computer to recall, I think their services is very speedy and it cost me nothing but around 10 days of wait time. So, it’s always good to do that before your warranty expire.
January 6th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Jody,
THAT’S RIGHT.
CHECK OUT THIS POST.
Free repair for some out-of-warranty HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario laptops
January 6th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
John,
Do you know if the video card is integrated into the motherboard then you’ll have to replace the whole motherboard. You can do it yourself.
1. Find the motherboard part number. It’s usually located in the memory compartment.
2. Buy a new motherboard.
3. Download hardware maintenance guide for your model.
4. Follow disassembly instructions in the manual and replace the motherboard.
Are you sure that your problem is related to the video card? Could be just bad memory module.