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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.
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May 19th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Sure you can.
May 19th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
Can I use paypal to donate?
May 19th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
My Hp dv9700z cannot boot windows.
I see the HP invent screen, Then nothing happens. After a while I see a message: “Operating System was not found”.
I can access BIOS. In BIOS, I cannot see my HDD. I tested the HDD on my desktop and it is working fine. I tried a bootdisc but my optical drive does not seem to work either.
I am suspecting the motherboard, but if I see the BIOS screen, it cannot be the MB, can it?
I am thinking of replacing the MB but I want to make sure it is the source of the problem.
PS: My HP is less than 2 years old and out of warranty. It does not qualify for the recall, so I am on my own.
May 19th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Thank you very much on the keyboard replacement instructions. Worked great and computers scare the hell out of me. I have one more problem now, darn kids! The wireless switch in the front is very touchy. It all depends on how you have the computer tilted or if you lean on it. Blue means your connected and red/orange means your not and it keeps flipping back and forth if you move the darn thing slightly. Any ideas?
May 17th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
isaac,
Don’t use the laptop. Unplug the AC adapter and remove the battery.
Let it dry for a couple of weeks days.
Test after that.
May 17th, 2010 at 10:51 am
my sister spilt some water on my laptop and now the screen doesn’t work, the sound effects still come in at the right times and if you press a button on the keyboard it still makes a blip sound but the screen itself just doesn’t work
May 5th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
Nevermind, got it.
May 5th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
Ray,
In the following guide I explain how to replace the left hinge on a HP Pavilion dv9000 notebook (it’s a common problem).
You can use same instructions for replacing the right hinge I guess.
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/how-to-replace-broken-left-hinge-in-hp-pavilion-dv9000/
May 5th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Sorry, could you tell me how to replace the right hinges….?
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Helen,
Could be memory problem. You have two memory modules installed, right? Try removing them one by one and start the laptop with only one memory module installed.
If one of the modules is bad, the laptop will start properly when the bad module is removed.
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Luz Marina,
First of all, the part number is incorrect. There should be six digits in the first part of the number, not five.
Find the right part number and google it or search on eBay. You’ll find something.
What is wrong with the motherboard? Lights turn on but no video? This is a known issue with this model, take a look at this post:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/free-repair-hp-pavilion-compaq-presario-laptops-out-of-warranty/
About a month ago I fixed a Compaq laptop with similar failure using this method:
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2010/04/06/fixing-compaq-presario-v6000-motherboard-no-video-issue/
The laptop still works. I’ve been running it almost everyday.
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I nee to buy the HP Pavillion DV 9000 Intel Motherboard
Part #61069- 001
Please let me know where can I get .
Regards
Hada
May 3rd, 2010 at 6:44 am
Hi. This looks really helpful and useful – I may yet need it! Switched on my HP Pavilion DV2000 this this morning, it started POST then nothing but a blinking cursor on black screen – no windows xp, nothing. Restarted and entered bios/setup, saw nothing obvious so ran hard drive check in diagnostics – it passed the quick and comprehensive tests. Have attempted re-boot from WXP boot disc – blue screen tells me Setup is loading files from CD, then a message appears which says windows is not installed, followed by another which says there is no hard drive installed, so I am now baffled and wondering what to do next.
April 17th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Jamie L,
First of all, test your laptop with an external monitor.
1. If external video works fine and this problem appear only on the laptop screen, most likely this is LCD screen failure. Try reconnecting the cable and if it doesn’t help, replace the screen.
2. If there is no video on both screens (internal LCD and external monitor), most likely this is the GPU related failure. This is a known issue with HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 series. The GPU is integrated into the motherboard and the whole motherboard has to be replaced (or repaired).
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2010/04/06/fixing-compaq-presario-v6000-motherboard-no-video-issue/
Last week I was able to fix same kind of problem on a Compaq Presario v6000 motherboard. Take a look at this guide.
Use this guide only as a last resort. You can permanently damage the laptop and/or motherboard.
April 16th, 2010 at 7:02 am
yea uh hi i have a dv9500 and cant use it because when i turn it on it displays a screen with vertical coloured lines then starts fading to a black screen and a few days before i got a error poppup sayin that my display driver has failed or sumthin like that and i was wondering if the problem can be fixed by getting a new graphics card or sumthin or if my computer is just rooted any advice….
April 13th, 2010 at 6:17 am
I have a hp pavilion dv9000, and the disk drive wont open and its not appearing on the hardware manager, any ideas on how to fix it?
April 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Excellent Guide, it helped me alot.
I was stuck on some parts but then i came across this helpful video which i am sure many like me will find it very useful asset, so i encourage everyone who is still having this issue to have a peek at the below video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnkQNmKauEc
April 3rd, 2010 at 8:46 am
I bought my girlfriend an HP G71 laptop (it looks similar to the dv9000), and unfortunately one of her lame cousins spilled chocolate milk on the right side of it. I was able to pop the keys and clean out most of the crap, but it seemed to have shorted out the DVD drive. It doesn’t respond to anything, including the old paper clip in the hole routine. I can see thanks to your blog post how easy it is to replace, but my question is, can I replace it with any slim DVD or Bluray drive? Or does it have to be specific to my HP? I know it has to be a SATA connection. I just figure that if HP wants 120 bucks to replace the drive, that I might as well upgrade it with a Bluray player. Thanks for your help!
April 1st, 2010 at 11:39 am
Mike,
According to the service manual for dv9000 series, it’s mini PCI wireless card.
March 31st, 2010 at 10:37 pm
robert,
Make sure the keyboard cable is seated correctly in the connector on the motherboard. Try reconnecting the keyboard cable.
March 31st, 2010 at 7:13 pm
i removd the keyboard on my hp dv 9000 and put it all back and now the keydoard dont work at all i neeed held on how i can fix it
March 24th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Question 13 was never answered and now I am seeing that there are 802.11n in both the mini PCI and mini PCIe available. Will these cards work in the DV9000 series laptops? I have a DV9310us model, does it have either of these card types. The cards are less than $25 and since I have an N router it would make my wireless speed much greater. Here is a link to one of the cards on ebay.
any advice would be appreciated as well as a donation to keep sites like this one helping people in need.
March 24th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Thank you very much for the pictures / video’s regarding the HP laptops. I need to replace my keyboard and now i’m confident I can do it by myself.
March 18th, 2010 at 1:39 am
ok it’s not really crap but it’s justr driving me crazy, i had videos, proffesional designs and things that i did and many more and it’s all gone
March 11th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Aaron,
Are you trying to connect a SATA drive to the motherboard with IDE connector?
March 11th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I have recently bought a second dv9000 laptop to experiment with. I was going to upgrade my current one that I’ve had for a little over 4 years now with no problems (except for left hinge issue). But the more I thought about it the more leary I got about tinkering around inside a perfectly good laptop. So I just hit Ebay, and found one that had a burned out motherboard. Anyway, the last part I had ordered for my “upgrade” arrived yesterday so I decided to use my day off to “build” my first laptop. For the most part everything went together nicely. My problem however is that the blu-ray drive I bought won’t connect to the connector on the system board. Is there another kind of connector I can order to remedy this? And if so, where’s a good place to get it from? My best guess is that the normal dvd/rw drive is an ide connector while the blu-ray drive is sata.
February 28th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
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February 26th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
To David,
I think it’s either bad keyboard or there is a problem with the keyboard controller on the motherboard (controller is integrated into the motherboard).
1. Try reconnecting the keyboard, maybe connection between the keyboard cable and motherboard got loose/oxidized.
2. Try replacing the keyboard.
3. Replace the motherboard.
Juan A (comment 182) said:
I don’t think this is software or settings related problem. His laptop works fine with external keyboard and it tells me that settings are correct.
When you have wrong settings, it should affect both, the internal and external keyboards.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Check to make sure that your laptop keyboard layout is in US nto UK settings. Look under control panel for keyboard, then look for settings.
February 15th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
I have a dv9812us HP. When I hit the num lock button, the numeral keys on the keypad act as a backspace button, and the bottom rows of the keyboard type incorrect characters. A USB keyboard acts normally . Any ideas? Great site! I will definitely make a donation if you can help me with this…..