Comments on: Upgrading memory on HP Pavilion zv5000 series laptops

By: Gerry W

Gerry W — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:02:51 +0000

You are a hero …. thanks, Gerry
P.S. Without a magnetized screwdriver it would have been all but impossible.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:31:44 +0000

Thanks Man!

By: jdman

jdman — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:02:43 +0000

I went to Crucial.com and let their online service find and recommend the memory for my zv5000. I installe it and have no problems with the memory. The system works great except for slow loading, but once done and ready it’s lightning fast.

By: mqqn

mqqn — Sat, 28 May 2011 05:36:57 +0000

thank you for taking time to post this helpful how-to.

best regards –

mqqn

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 07 May 2011 17:42:47 +0000

Thanks for the easy to follow guide. I have a zv5000 and changed both of my 256MB memory cards for 2 1GB cards. When i re-booted my laptop i had a problem with Windows IE becoming unstable and recovering the pages all the time. It would even throw up a warning page which i couldn’t read as it would instantly then go into restarting the laptop. Very frustrating. It kept pointing to a problem with my AVG Free exe file or a IE exe file. I uninstalled the AVG and downloaded Mozilla to try and clear the issue, but i still ad the same problem. Finally i removed one of the new 1GB cards and inserted one of the old 256MB cards. Rebooted and had no issues, works fine. I even re-tried and moved them around to ensure i didn’t have a bad card. Same results, i guess my laptop just doesn’t like 2 GB of memory!

By: Laptop Tech

Laptop Tech — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:18:20 +0000

Ken,

I have a zv5000 and attempted to upgrade the memory. From what I’ve seen I should use PC2700 333mhz DDR. I ordered two 1 GB PC2700 333mhz chips from PNY. Part number MD1024SD1-333. They are to long, no way they will fit. anyone have any idea what the right chips are? Appreciate any tips.

It looks like you ordered memory for a desktop computer, not laptop.
I googled MD1024SD1-333 and it says PC memory.
You need PC2700 333mhz memory for a LAPTOP computer.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:04:56 +0000

I have a zv5000 and attempted to upgrade the memory. From what I’ve seen I should use PC2700 333mhz DDR. I ordered two 1 GB PC2700 333mhz chips from PNY. Part number MD1024SD1-333. They are to long, no way they will fit. anyone have any idea what the right chips are? Appreciate any tips. Thanks.

By: Javier

Javier — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 02:26:46 +0000

I am about to throw my old hp laptop away because it was too slow up until I saw this website. The pictures were so helpful as I am computer novice. Now my computer is working 5 times faster…. Thank you.

By: JT

JT — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:37:26 +0000

Really appreciate the help, but you really only need to remove 3 screws to remove the top faceplate in order to get to the keyboard screws, thus allowing access to the memory slot underneath the keyboard. This comes straight out of the HP manual(Sec. 5.9). No real foul removing the extra screws, you just run the added chance of loss of screws, as the 2 on the hinges are very tiny, and do not need to be removed.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:00:08 +0000

Put back the old memory and boot it up again. If that works then you have bad memory. I had to replace mine after running into same issue.