Comments on: HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop. Removing hard drive, memory, wireless card, keyboard.

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:55:27 +0000

Aaron,

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.

Are you trying to connect a SATA drive to the motherboard with IDE connector?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:51:55 +0000

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.

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Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:14:46 +0000

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By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:10:37 +0000

To David,

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?

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:

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.

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.

By: Juan A

Juan A — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:30:14 +0000

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.

By: David

David — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:04:34 +0000

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…..

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:01:36 +0000

Great instructions! I used it to take out the HP Pavilion DV9626 notebook CD/DVD drive. However, my device manager still does not recognize the drive. Flashed it with the new bios and MS FIX for the registry range. THe device manager does not even show or list DVD drives at all.

Pls let me know if you have posted a thought as to what may be the problem.
I have ordered the restore discs from HP.

By: HT

HT — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:21:07 +0000

Good detailed instructions on how to take apart my laptop, thanks! Was wondering if maybe replacing my CD drive with a new one would fix my problem? If I have any disc in my CD drive I have about a 1 in 20 chance of my laptop even starting up beyond a blinking cursor. If I pop it open then it miraculously starts about 2 seconds later 100 percent of the time. Also if the laptop is already on and I insert a CD it rarely runs it, just makes a very loud whirring sound. What’s up with that and how can I fix it? Darn laptop is only 2 months out of warranty….grrrr.

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:01:43 +0000

Amy,

My hp dv9000 appears to have some serious hardware issues. I turn it on and just get a black screen with a blinking cursor. I tried to do a system recovery from my recovery disks. As soon as I enter the second disk, I get a message that says something to the effect of “cannot load bitmap x: res256 banner.bmp”. If I click ok, my pc shuts down. If I don’t click ok, it seems to stop the recovery process. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I think this could be either bad hard drive or memory.
Enter the BIOS setup menu and search for hard drive and memory diagnostic tools. Test memory and hard drive.
The laptop has two memory modules installed. You can try removing them one by one and run the recovery process with each module individually. If one of the modules is bad, the recovery process will run successfully when the bad memory module is removed.

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:56:28 +0000

My hp dv9000 appears to have some serious hardware issues. I turn it on and just get a black screen with a blinking cursor. I tried to do a system recovery from my recovery disks. As soon as I enter the second disk, I get a message that says something to the effect of “cannot load bitmap x: res256 banner.bmp”. If I click ok, my pc shuts down. If I don’t click ok, it seems to stop the recovery process. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.