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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 25th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Richard,
Can you see both drives in My Computer? Can you access the second drive and find out what files you have on that drive?
I assume that system files are stored on the main drive and the second one is used as an extra storage. If that’s the case, removing and replacing the second drive shouldn’t damage anything.
January 25th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Kim,
If the HP tech said it’s a software related problem, maybe it is? Have you tried reinstalling factory software from the recovery disc? Maybe you should try reimaging the hard drive?
January 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
I’ve got a warning symbol flashing that says “a hard drive in the system reports that it may fail”. I ran a comprehensive examination of both hard drives. The main hard drive is 100% ok. The second hard drive has issues and it told me to replace it.
Anybody know if there is any system software on the second hard drive of the Pavilion dv9000? I can replace it thanks to the instructions given on this site but I’m not real computer savy and have know idea if just replacing the drive without knowing its contents is going to cause problems. If the only thing going on that drive is personal data I’m not concerned. Its system software that worries me. The only backup for reinstalling the software is on one of the hard drives. Help would be appreciated.
January 24th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I have an out of warranty Pavilion dv9000 laptop with the same symptoms as the recall- overheating, dead wireless, dead motherboard. Unfortunately the product number is not listed on the recall list, even though it seems to be the same problems as the recall. I’ve contacted HP and they wouldn’t let me talk to a tech until I paid them for a warranty, but after I paid for that, the tech didn’t help me and they said that they could fix it if I sent it in for an additional price since it was a software problem. I got the money back for the warranty, but I’m still left with a dead computer. Is there anything I can do? Thanks in advance.
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Samuel,
At the end of the post I linked to the page with information about FREE repair from HP. Just in case, here’s the same link again:
Free repair from HP
Maybe your laptop qualifies for that repair.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Samuel… Sounds like the defective nvidia GPU like mine did and so many others. Mine has gone blank as well and needs a new motherboard and graphic card. I refuse to pay to have it fixed since it’s a major defect. Take a look at hp forum about this problem.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
I have a problem with my HP 9000 , At initial stage when I switch on the laptop the screen comes up blank and after a while its start to move like cloud , one side white the other black before finally switch on , after 20-30miuntes it goes blank again.
Now is permanently off with the screen totally blank.
Can anyone please tell me, what might be the problem and whether I can fix it myself?
January 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Zach,
Can you see the CD/DVD drive in My Computer?
Does it give you an error?
You can try booting the laptop from a bootable CD/DVD. You can use a live Linux CD, Windows installation CD, HP recovery disc or any other bootable CD. If the laptop boots from the bootable CD but you cannot access it in Windows, most likely you have a software related problem.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Luis Sandoval,
I doubt that removing the CMOS (RTC) battery will clear the BIOS password.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:28 am
I have been having problems with my HP Pavilion dv 9000 laptop it can not read cds even though the computer says their is nothing wrong with it. I have unistalled the drivers and still it won’t read the discs I want to say the lens is scratched or broken but it won’t read discs. I tried putting a lens cleaner but it won’t read that can you help.