HomeIn this guide I will explain how to disassemble the display panel and remove LCD screen with inverter board from a HP Pavilion dv9000 series laptop. Do not disassemble your laptop if it’s still under warranty.
You’ll find instructions for removing hard drive, memory, wireless card and keyboard in my previous post.
Are you looking for spare display parts for your Pavilion dv9000 laptop? Search here.
HP offers free repair for some out of warranty Pavilion dv9000 laptops.
LCD screen and inverter board removal instructions.
First, remove the battery. There are five screw seals located on the LCD screen bezel. Remove all five seals with a sharp object. Remove all five screws found under the seals.
Now we are going to remove the LCD screen bezel. Insert your fingers between the bezel and LCD screen and carefully disengage plastic latches.
Continue removing the bezel.
LCD sceen bezel has been removed.
You’ll find the inverter board under the screen. Carefully unplug cables from both sides of the inverter board. Remove the screen inverter and replace with a new one if needed.
Remove three screws from each side of the screen. These screws securing the screen hinges to the cover.
Now you can access the back side of the screen. Carefully remove sticky tape securing the video cable. Unplug the video cable from the screen.
Remove two screws from each side of the LCD screen. These screws securing the screen to the hinges.
Remove the screen and replace it with a new one if needed.
LCD screen, bezel and inverter have been removed.
This model has a known issue – broken left hinge. In the next post I explain how to remove and replace the broken left hinge.
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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April 21st, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Hi, i have a DV9653CL accidentally i drop my laptopp and the LCD crack, i buy a new one and replace it but now when i turn it on it turn on and the turns off i change the inverter trying to figure it out bu i still have the same problem! what do you think it could be?
April 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am
Neil,
Apparently it’s related to the video card and means the whole motherboard has to be replaced.
I don’t know any I can suggest. Find the motherboard part number (SPS number in the memory stick) and google it. You can find a seller this way.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Thanks for your prompt answer. I have tried with an external monitor but the output is a scrambled screen of small squares. Can you suggest me a web page to order the motherboard? Is replacing this motherboard too difficult to do it myself?
April 19th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Neil,
For some reason, your description sounds like a problem with the video card which is integrated into the motherboard, so basically it’s a motherboard problem.
When you have a faulty LCD screen, the laptop still should work with an external monitor attached to the VGA port. Test your laptop with an external monitor? Can you make it work this way? If not, most likely it’s bad motherboard.
April 19th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
cliff,
That’s the only option you have. Or you can use the laptop as is (with a cracked screen) but output image on the external monitor.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
First of all, excellent job on giving these free classes to fix laptops. My DV9330 shows a blank screen and scrambled colors on the video output, it just got a scramble colors screen one day and the next day showed a driver problem, hit safe mode, and no screen output since then. No faint image. I hear HDD working, DVD works, I have tried memories swaping, but still nothing. Out of warranty and not covered by HP. I am not sure if LCD is faulty, but I am thinking on the motherboard. Can you tell me what are the diagnostics for a faulty motherboard? Thanks in advance.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hi
thanks for a really helpful guide. I think I will be able to adapt it to changing the screen on my HP 510 notebook. One question though – I dropped my laptop and the screen has a number of cracks. It’s still working but I have a number of black lines running along the cracks. Would replacing the screen be the right thing to do?
thanks
April 12th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Indy,
Why did you wait for so long and didn’t take it to the authorized repair center? I guess it’s not under warranty anymore?
OK, what about these lines? Do they appear on the entire screen or in random places?
April 8th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
Hey, I have an HP Pavillion dv9000, for a little over a year, and about 5 months after I got it I started having a problem with the LCD. It shows pink and green lines down the screen, and depending on how I tilt the screen, I can see. Well it worked fine for a while, but now i need to tilt it SO MUCH that i can’t even see it properly because of the angle. Help! Everything else is awesome.
April 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Robby,
Sounds like a problem with the motherboard, apparently you shorted something.
April 5th, 2009 at 10:05 am
thank you so much for this excellent and easy tutorial; was able to fix a friends laptop in under 60 minutes.
April 4th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
I have a dv6308nr and the wire that connects the inverter to the motherboard got burnt. It made for some reason contact with the body of the lcd screen. Now I´ve tried a different inverter with a different wire but the laptop stays off. It can´t be turned on. But as soon as I attached an external screen through the vga port it turns on and everything works. My question is: is something not working on the motherboard? Some advice would be very helpful.
April 1st, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Mike,
Looks like it’s a common problem with HP Pavilion dv9000 laptops.
If you Google for HP dv9000 hinge crack, you’ll see that many other people have the same issue with their dv9000 laptops.
April 1st, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Hello,
Would you please give me input on what I should do regarding my previous question (#44) as I’m concerned that it will happen again when repaired. I paid over $900.00 only to have to spend more money 17 mos. later. Thanks
March 31st, 2009 at 8:23 am
there actualy is a magnet, its located on the left side of screen about 10% from the botton of the screen.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:40 am
Hello,
I removed my cracked LCD screen and took out the inverter. There is a set of black and white wires that ran out of the inverter. I broke the white glass tube. Where can I find a replacement and do you have any photos or instructions on where those wires are supposed to go? Thanks!
March 28th, 2009 at 8:29 am
My HP Pavillion 9000 is 17 months old. The left rear lower corner of the cover (as you face it) has cracked, the hinge has virtually frozen up and now the screen cover has cracked. Is this a common occurance on these? I’m handicapped and never take my laptop out of my room and always close it from the center…Thanks
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Peter,
It’s hard to tell. Could be bad backlight lamp or could be bad inverter. The only way to find out is install a known good inverter and test the laptop.
I would try replacing the inverter board first. It’s easy to replace and shouldn’t be very expensive.
March 21st, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Thanks for all the info. I just had my DV9408 motherboard replaced under the extended warranty as it would not start (blue lights would just flash and keep trying to restart). When I got it back, it started up but the screen is dark (like looking through a deep tint). External monitor works fine and when lid is closed, the system goes into standby ok so lid switch is ok (for those looking, the lid switch is located under the speaker cover near the start button and is glued to the heatsink). I am going to try to get HP to cover the screen under the extended warranty but they have said intially that they won’t as there had been a spill (which is true but was minor about 1 year ago and everything had been working fine, including the screen). If they do not cover this, am I safe to presume that it would be the inverter? The HP rep thought it would be the backlight but they really did not seem to know. Again, great site. Thanks for the info.
March 15th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
michelle,
I cannot tell you what is wrong without testing the laptop. Yes, it’s possible that you have a bad motherboard.
Could be connection relate problem, bad memory, bad video cable, bad motherboard, etc…
It depends on the model of your laptop. Could be $100 or could be $500. You didn’t give me enough information.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
hi, I have HP Pavillion series, I had problem with my laptop a month ago, the screen was totally black an blank but its still charging and when i turn it on the lights are on. when i brought it for repair the technician said it was the mother board that was brocken, can it be? how much will it cost me for that board? Please help me…
March 4th, 2009 at 1:02 am
Thanks so much in your INFO about removing the screen as i only wanted to remove the inverter as mine was dark on one side of the screen. I got the part number and order the new part and having installed the old inverter my screen is tops again. The new part is costing $23 AUD and a shop wanted $300 AUD to do the same job. I cant thank you enough.
February 18th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
alright well i took the screen off, unscrewed the wireless antenna’s from the back of the screen and left them connected to the wi-fi card and my wireless still works! thanks for the help
February 11th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Thanks a lot for the help, I’ll try it out… is there any way of removing it and still keeping the wireless antenna connected?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Byron,
Did you test your laptop with an external monitor attached to the VGA port? Can you see if the external video works properly or it has same 4 shrunken screens?
Also, when you start the laptop there should be HP logo. Does it appear in four screens too or this problem appears only in Windows?
February 8th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
My dv9500 has just passed 2 months after the warranty expiration. When booting up I have 4 screens shrunken for the display. I can only boot in safe mode, which I still end up with 4 shrunken screens. I think the booting up issue came after the shrunken screens started occuring. I am thinking kids and wife rebooted several times trying to get rid of the wied display. Any ideas?
February 7th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Did you find a link about free HP repairs for dv9000 laptops? Did you try calling them and find out if your laptop qualifies for a free repair? Try that option first.
I am in Australia and my model doesn’t qualify…
Thanks for the fast reply anyway… I will try to get the MB from China as it costs US$550 AUD$800 unfitted here…
Cheers, Dale.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Dale,
Even though the laptop screen displays only white vertical lines, you still can see them and the LCD is bright, correct? That means the backlight and inverter work properly. It’s not an inverter related problem.
In your case both screens, internal and external, display a garbled image. Most likely you have a problem with the video card.
I’m not sure 100% but I think the video card in this laptop is integrated into the motherboard and cannot be removed or replaced separately. That means you’ll have to replace the whole motherboard.
Did you find a link about free HP repairs for dv9000 laptops? Did you try calling them and find out if your laptop qualifies for a free repair? Try that option first.
February 7th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Hi all,
I was wondering if you can help me diagnose this.
My DV9008tx is 2 years old and when turned on has only white vertical lines/panels of different shades about an inch wide across the screen.
When hooked to external lcd, t will only boot in safe mode low res and has dotted vertical lines down the panel.
Do you think this is a Motherboard or inverter? I wish to fix it myself and the MB is quite expensive….
Cheers for any advice! Dale.
February 1st, 2009 at 11:42 am
Asif,
That’s what I think but I could be wrong.
Based on my experience, it feels like a defective LCD screen.
I don’t know. Different screens might require different wiring (different LCD cables).
Maybe you should search for a new replacement screen using the HP part number from the old screen? That’s would be the best way to go. Just to make sure that you buy a compatible screen.
I just searched through the maintenance and service guide for HP Pavilion dv2313cl notebook and I found that HP lists four different LCDs for that model. It’s not very clear which one you should use. Here’s the list of LCDs I found in the guide:
Display panels:
For use with full-featured computer models 430457-001
For use with defeatured computer models 430458-001
For use with dv2200 models, BV panel 435842-001
For use with dv2200 models, AG panel 435843-001
I guess you’ll have to remove the LCD, find the HP part number from the LCD, and search by that part number.