Comments on: How to take apart HP Pavilion dv8

By: Michele

Michele — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:48:04 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial. I use it every time I disassembly my HP Pavilion DV8.

I wrote a complementary tutorial that focus on the disassembly of the “Display components of the HP DV8”. I mentioned you in my tutorial. I will be glad if you could do the same with yours.

here is the link to my tutorial of the display part:
https://pcwizard-italia.blogspot.com/2023/02/supplementing-insidemylaptop-s.html

By: FrostAskar

FrostAskar — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:58:03 +0000

I did all the steps of this tutorial, but at the time of reassembling, the screen stays black, even though it shows that recieves power (Glows lightly), also, if I connect a monitor through the VGA port, it displays the desktop without problems. I’ve been told that might be a problem with the inverter, but so far I couldn’t open the screen case. Do you have a tutorial to open the case as well?

By: Sajjad

Sajjad — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:40:59 +0000

hi, have used your guide to take apart my HP Pavilion DV8 guide, and then assemble it step by step as instructed by your guide, but when i want to switch it on it did’nt turn on. what should I do, please help me.

Regards
Sajjad

By: Rosh

Rosh — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:33:19 +0000

Hi Have used your guide to replace a fried motherboard, After getting everything back together and connecting the power adapter the power light comes on and is steady, but nothing happens on pressing the power on button.

Would this be an adapter fault or could it be the dc cable connecting the board is faulty.

By: Deen

Deen — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:25:19 +0000

My laptop was working fine for almost 5 years. Now the display remains black very often. I have to open the display in a certain angle to see something on it.

This means, that the display is still ok and only some display cables might be loose. You know which cables I should check ?

By: k sarma

k sarma — Fri, 29 May 2015 17:43:21 +0000

I got new motherboard for my HP dv8, after installing it, i am not able to install windows 7 from recovery cd, it exist in between without error message.
my motherboard initial give error OOA :product configuration, also when i see details vista preinstalled it show on my motherboard. how to change bios of my original and software. please help

By: DK8

DK8 — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 05:06:42 +0000

Thanks for posting these instruction. I have had my DV8 since my divorce over 4 yrs ago – House I don’t have anymore, but because a good machine is important I bought this. Has been great, but then my charger started to make noises but when I replaced it I noticed the plastic in my power jack broke off. – as had the plastic tab in the right side USB port long ago. I could get by having two USBs but not the loss of power. So this was perfect step by step for a newbie/. I had never done more than swap a hard drive in an old tower before.

I made a mistake in step 23 – connectors work so many ways & I did not know the extent… I broke the connector off the board and couldn’t do a successful search for a new one other than to buy machines or MBs to cannibalize. I think it is the power button – 6 contacts in what seems 1.4 inch white connector that I thought slid off two metal prongs, so I pushed in the direction of your arrow. Whoops – that ain’t right – In this case you’re supposed to just yank out the wires/mini flat-cable. After weeks of sitting in parts (with a dust drape) I gave up the search and used a fine needle to set superglue to hold the ‘pressure contact’ down in place. Wish I had a hands-free lighted magnifier for that, but it looks good. I hope I did okay. Tomorrow I try to work these steps backwards. Thanks for the help. Do you have other web class or lessoons, like ‘learning your connectors, or , ‘shade tree fixin man’s computer basics for newbies?’ Thanks for investing your time and effort to help others – that rocks!

By: Regis

Regis — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 20:13:34 +0000

Problem solved !

The solution was in my last post ! I did receive my 2 Toshiba 2Tb MQ series today ! They are both SATA II and… are both recognized by the HP DV8 ( by the BIOS and by my WIN 7 OS ). So I do now have a 4Tb DV8 ! Last issue to solve, they are 15mm thick and I’ll have to modify a bit the bottom cover panel ! 🙂

By: Regis

Regis — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:26:58 +0000

Well… I did try it… 1 Tb HDD in Bay 1 is recognized ( both in BIOS and Win 7 ) but not the 2 Tb HDD in bay 2… In fact… All combo’s are working but the 2tb + 2tb ( which is the one I wanted… ) 🙁

This couldn’t be a hardware issue between my specific model of HDD ( M9T Seagate / Samsung Spinpoint ) and my HP DV8 ??? Would it worth testing with other 2Tb HDD models ??? ( I’m thinking of the Toshiba MQ Series which is SATA II instead of my M9T which is SATA III )

Using a Sata III in bay 1 taking the full speed would ‘neutralize’ the Sata port in Bay 2 ???
So this would prevent me from using 2 SATA III HDD together ??? ( my ‘old’ WD 1Tb are both SATA II and are working perfectly togheter… )

PS : I know WD and TOSHIBA 2Tb drives are 15mm thick instead of 9.5mm for the Seagate M9T

By: IML Tech

IML Tech — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:30:56 +0000

In reply to Regis. @ Regis, Apparently, there are some limitations. What if you boot with the old 1TB in the bay 1 and new 2TB in the bay 2? Will it recognize the new 2TB HDD this way?