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With this illustrated disassembly guide you’ll be able to take apart a HP Pavilion dv5000 laptop and remove the system board. The main reason for removing the system board is accessing and replacing the cooling fan witch is located on the bottom side of the system board.
Sequence showing an HP DV5000 Laptop being dismantled. The process is aimed at the rotten Sunon GC055515VH fan, which had become horribly noisy, rattling on its spindle.
There is no easy access to the cooling fan from the bottom of the HP Pavilion dv5000 series laptop, you’ll have to take the whole thing apart.
In the step 3 you’ll have to remove all screws from the bottom. I believe the author forgot to mention that in his description.
You can use this disassembly guide for removing and replacing DVD drive, keyboard, LCD assembly, system board and other major laptop components.
The cooling fan is a part of the heat sink assembly witch could be found here for less than $25.
Here are other spare parts for a HP Pavilion dv5000 series laptop.
November 26th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Hi there! Really need some help here as im also having the same chassis (Mine’s a DV5295EA). What kind of fan did u replaced it with? Mines doing that awful noise as well :S Feel free to contact me on my email..
Cheers
November 26th, 2008 at 11:48 am
melodos,
Take a look at the maintenance and service guide for HP Pavilion dv5100 series notebook. On the page 61 you’ll find part numbers for the fan/heat sink assembly.
Google the part number and you’ll find a replacement.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
What i’ve managed to find the whole heat sink assembly on ebay so far.
and this is the p/n: 407862-001
There must be a way to find just the small fan.. all i can find is the huge piece of junk
November 28th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Could i possibly replace just the sunon fan and not the whole heatsink? Do you know its dimensions or you could post a link of it here?
Cheers
November 28th, 2008 at 1:19 am
melodos,
Yes, it’s possible. Just remove three screws, unplug the fan cable from the motherboard and replace the fan with a new one.
The question is where to find the fan?
I think you have two options here:
1. Buy a new heat sink assembly. Remove the fan and install it instead of defective one.
2. Find a new fan.
Take a look at this site. They have some fans for HP Pavilion dv5000/dv5100 laptops.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
part of my headphone is stuck in the headphone jack
how can i remove it out of my laptop?
December 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Hi, great instructions. My laptop won’t turn on, any thoughts? Where to begin. Took apart my laptop to learn a thing or two, but now I would like to know how to fix my problem. Thank you.
December 9th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Jacques,
Is it completely dead? What happens when you plug in the AC adapter and press on the power button? Any activity (fan noise, video on the screen, etc…) at all?
December 10th, 2008 at 8:28 am
i’ve got the same problem as described in the article. I could probably take it apart myself, especially now with the help of the picassa album. But what about the thermal paste?
im running speedfan and it indicated both intel processors are running at or around 65-75C. all that is running is firefox and word. if nothing is running it will maybe drop to 60C. initial start up temps after a night off are at 35-40C in a cold room. the fan is running obviously since its loud as heck, but are my high temps partly due to the thermal paste wearing down?
December 10th, 2008 at 8:38 am
nathan,
1. Take a look inside the heat sink. It’s possible that your heat sink is clogged with dust and the laptop is running hot because of that. You can clean the heat sink with compressed air.
2. Try replacing thermal compound.
December 10th, 2008 at 11:02 am
i tried cleaning it with compressed air through the openings. if its still running hot, would it be better to just open it and clean it the dust that way and applying new thermal compound before i take it in for repair as a last resort?
also how easy is it to replace thermal compound?
do the bad fan and high core temps have any relation at all in your opinion?
if i get new thermal compound, technically it should run cooler, but if i still have a bad fan would the thermal paste change anything?
bad=still runs, just loud/off balance.
December 11th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
nathan,
I guess that’s would be the next step.
It’s not difficult at all if you can disassemble the laptop.
1. Remove the old thermal compound from both the processor and heat sink. You can use a paper towel soaked in 99% alcohol.
2. Apply new thermal compound on the processor.
3. Install the heat sink back in place.
if the fan still run without any unusual (grinding) noise, apparently it’s not bad.
January 21st, 2009 at 7:24 am
Many thanks for the detailed instructions. Unfortunately, I purchased another fan assembly based on your images only to find mine was a different design. I suspect the difference may be due to your laptop being AMD based and mine being Intel based.
A distinguishing characteristic between our two fan assemblies is yours has a black heatsink, the black bar (adjacent to the fan) connected to the end of that heavy gauge copper wire, while mine does not have that black heatsink. I believe that black heatsink is visible without disassembly.
FYI, my fan is a Forcecon F513-CCW which rotates counter clockwise whereas your fan rotates clockwise.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I have apparently fixed my noisy Sunon fan!
The second time it went into noisy mode I removed the fan and immersed it completely in light machine oil for an hour. Dried, cleaned and reinstalled.
I meant it as a stop-gap while I found a replacement, but to my great delight it has stayed completely silent and running fine ever since. It’s over six months now.
Recommended for anyone not wishing to pay the stupid prices for a replacement.
(Written on the laptop in question)
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January 29th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Ah - OK, I see that the disassembly instructions are actually a reference to MY Web Album site!
Riiight…
February 4th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
hey so i took my dv5230 apart like in the manual here but when i put it back together it boots and goes to the windows loading screen then reboots again and keeps doing that. so i go into dos mode with a disk i have and its saying error unable to control line a20 no xms drivers installed….did i completly fry this blasted computer. info on it is no important so i tried fdisking it and formatting it no avail….any help would be great!!
February 5th, 2009 at 6:35 am
I tried to follow the instructions to replace my fan but got stuck on the remove “top case and speaken grille” step. I couldnt remove it. Either theres some screws that i didnt remove (it really pissed me off that the screws werent mentioned)or theres something else i dont know about that needs to be done.
Anybody have any ideas what could be the problem?
Do i have to remove the 3 screws under/in the CD drive? Im not talking about the 2 hidden black ones that are mentioned in the guide. I tried to remove them but 2 wont come out, the screwdriver cant get a grip on them (tried several sizes).
February 5th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I found the hp manual online and just finished installing the fan.
Heres the link, takes a lil bit to load (3mb)
February 17th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Great tutorial! U owe me a new computer. That hilarious last frame caused the coffee to be jettisoned from my mouth in laughter. Any recommendations for up & coming laptops? i want blueray read/write, Hdmi port & ddr3 4gig ram… cheers!
March 11th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Hi,
My DV 5000 Laptop freeze on screen with the message error:
0211: keyboard Error
March 15th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Gilles,
It’s hard to tell what is wrong. Could be just a bad keyboard or could be a problem with the keyboard controller.
Here’s what you can try. Unplug the keyboard keyboard from the motherboard and test it with an external USB keyboard. Does it work?
If you receive the same error message even though the internal keyboard is unplugged, most likely there is a problem with the keyboard controller on the motherboard. If that’s the case, you’ll have to replace the motherboard.
March 17th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Replacing the DVD, after removal for fan cleaning and blow out, the DVD is not returning to its installed position, system boots but the DVD is not recognized. Something gives, any ideas?
Phil W.
April 4th, 2009 at 9:25 am
hp pavilion ze5500 laptop
Hi:
Is the sound card in this one attached to the board or is a plug & play? ..It looks like no device is presente. Is there anyway to find out without dissasembling the pc?…thxs
April 4th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Diana,
In most laptops the sound board is a part of the motherboard and cannot be removed or replaced separately.
Audio board also known as sound board
April 21st, 2009 at 7:44 am
I applied your fix to my DV5216CL HP Pavilion (model fan number is the same), and it worked!
Then only thing I did different was that I used a LIGHT gun oil for 9mm pistols. The fan is now ridiculously quiet. I never thought it would work such wonders!
The only thing that scared me at first was that when I got down to the fan, unhooked it and was ready to soak it in the oil, I noticed that there was some circuitry under the fan’s spindle. I was worried that I might short-circuit the fan if I soaked it, but have had no major issues as of yet.
The only issue I have had so far is that when I did the soak, I dried it off (paper towel) and air-dried it with a pneumatic air pressure valve. After I placed the fan back in and reassembled my whole pc, when I went to boot it back up, it would go right to the boot screen, then the fan would speed up VERY QUICKLY, and then power off. I have come to the conclusion that my HDD is damaged, and not to mention the thermal paste has dried up on my core, so it is running with no paste. I cleaned it off, and it works normally and faster with the fan soak, but the core is over it’s temp a little too much sometimes.
Otherwise, the fix you gave here worked like a charm! Thanks so much!
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:22 am
Thank you for a great tutorial!
It has left me with a dv5000 in pieces on my living room floor!
question: the LED saying the power cable is plugged in is on, but when i press the power button, nothing. could this be anything except the mobo?
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
Rick,
Did you have the same problem before you took it apart?
Could be loose or bad memory module. Try reseating it or replace with another known good one.
If you press on the power button and nothing happens. No noise, no fan activity, etc… probably it’s bad mobo.
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:32 am
Yeah, it’s the reason i took it apart. i figured i would try resetting everything firmly and see if the psu was bad, but nothing seems amiss.. there is a very slight high pitch noise, that is so faint i couldnt hear it when i was assembled… does that mean anything?
thanks for your help and quick response!!
April 23rd, 2009 at 10:38 am
Rick,
Remove as many parts as you can, disconnect the LCD screen. Leave only vital pars: motherboard, CPU with heat sink and fan, memory. Try turning it on this way. If still nothing even with good memory, most likely it’s the motherboard. CPU failures are not common. I’ve seen very few failed CPUs in many years.
By the way, if you have two RAM modules installed try removing them one by one. It’s unlikely that both RAM modules failed at the same time, at lease one of them has to be good.
Not really, sometimes even good motherboards make this noise.
June 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
is there a way to grease the fan? will this make an improvement in performance (thermal and thus functional)? or it does not worthy the fuzz?
thanks