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.
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.
NOTE: some HP Pavilion dv9000 laptops come with dual backlight and require a dual inverter board. Instead of one connector on the right side (as it shown on the picture above), the dual inverter has two connectors.
In the official service manual for HP Pavilion dv9000 I found the following part numbers:
Display inverters:
For use with Dual Lamp display panels 432959-001
For use with Single Lamp display panels 431391-001
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.
Note: some HP Pavilion dv9000 laptops come with dual backlight LCD screens. On the picture above the single backlight lamp LCD is displayed.
The dual backlight LCD has two backlight cables.
In the official service manual for HP Pavilion dv9000 I found the following part numbers for LCD screens:
Display panels:
17.0-inch, WXGA+, TFT Dual Lamp display panel with BrightView 432954-001
17.0-inch, SXGA+, TFT Single Lamp display panel with BrightView 432953-001
17.0-inch, WXGA+, TFT Single Lamp display panel with BrightView 432952-001
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.
If your HP Pavilion dv9000 notebook has no video at all, it could be related to the video chip failure on the motherboard. Take a look at this video tutorial explaining how to fix failed video chip in HP Pavilion dv9000.
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