How to disassemble HP Pavilion dv. In this guide I explain how to disassemble an HP Pavilion dv. This is my first disassembly guide for HP pavilion dv. To be precise, Im taking apart an HP Pavilion dv. I found that HP Pavilion dv. If your computer doesnt look like one shown in this guide, check out  dv. Microcontroller PIC Projects are categorized on the basis of microcontroller applications. Microchip pic microcontrollers belongs to modern family of MCUs. 1,000 6,000 cfm 2. 0 in. wg External Static Pressure Aluminum Plate Heat Exchanger April 2017 Heat Recovery Ventilator Model PVe Light Industrial. HP dv. 7 2. 00. 0. Before you start, turn off the computer and remove the battery. STEP 1. Remove loosen four screws securing the hard drive and memory cover. Remove the cover. STEP 2. Remove four screws securing hard drives two screws per hard drive. Slide the HDD 1 to the left until its disconnected from the motherboard and remove it. Slide the HDD 2 to the right until its disconnected from the motherboard and remove it. STEP 3. Remove both memory RAM modules. Disconnect two antenna cables from the wireless card. These laptop has three antenna cables but only two are used. One of the antenna cables connected to the main contact on the wireless card and the second one is connected to the auxiliary contact. All three antenna cables are labeled. Remove two screws securing the wireless card. Remove the card. STEP 4. Remove one screw securing the CDDVD drive. Slide the CDDVD drive to the left to disconnect it from the motherboard. Remove the CDDVD drive. STEP 5. Remove all marked screws from the bottom case. The green circled screw secures the keyboard. Dont forget to remove two screws hidden in the CDDVD drive bay. STEP 6. Start separating the speaker cover from the top cover. You can use a guitar pick as a case cracker. Insert the guitar pick between the speaker cover and case and slowly move along the side. STEP 7. Lift up the speaker cover. Be careful, its still connected to the motherboard. In order to remove the cable, youll have to unlock the connector first. Move the brown clip about 2 millimeters in the direction shown by two arrows. The clip must stay attached to the connector base. On the picture below the connector is shown in the unlocked position. STEP 8. Now you can remove the speaker cover. STEP 9. Remove four screw securing the keyboard. STEP 1. 0. Lift up the keyboard from the base and access the cable connector underneath. STEP 1. 1. Carefully unlock the keyboard cable connector. Move the brown clip about 2 millimeters in the direction shown by two arrows. The brown clip must stay attached to the connector base. If you damage the connector, the keyboard will not work. Well I broke the connector. As you see, the left pin on the brown clip is missing. Its still possible to use this clip to lock the connector. STEP 1. 2. Pull Wi Fi antenna cables though the opening in the cover. Remove three screws securing the speaker assembly. Disconnect the speaker cable green arrow from the motherboard. STEP 1. 3. Remove the speaker assembly. STEP 1. 4. Disconnect the video cable from the connector on the motherboard. Remove six screws securing display hinges three screws per hinge. STEP 1. 5. Separate the display assembly from the notebook base. In the next post I will explain how to remove the screen. By the way, its not necessary to separate the display panel assemble from the base in order to take it apart. STEP 1. 6. Disconnect and remove the CMOS battery. Remove all marked screws from the bottom. The green circled screw is hidden in the CDDVD drive bay. STEP 1. 7. Remove all screws securing the top cover assembly. Disconnect the touch pad cable from the motherboard. STEP 1. 8. Start separating the top cover assemble from the notebook base. You can use same trick with the guitar pick shown in the step 6. STEP 1. 9. Remove the top cover assembly. Heres the back side of the top cover assembly. STEP 2. 0. Disconnect the USB and audio board cables from the motherboard green arrows. Disconnect the cooling fan cable from the motherboard yellow arrow. Remove four screws securing the motherboard. STEP 2. 1. Lift up the right side of the motherboard as it shown on the picture below and disconnect the DC IN jack cable. STEP 2. 2. Remove the motherboard from the notebook base. On the opposite side of the motherboard you can access the processor CPU when the heat sink is removed. By the way, the best way to find a replacement motherboard is searching by the HP part number. The part number should be located on a sticker in the memory compartment. The HP part number looks like XXXXXX 0. Heres the bottom case without motherboard installed. The USB board, audio board, cooling fan and DC IN jack are mounted on the base. The DC jack attached to a harness. In order to remove the cooling fan, simply remove two screws securing the fan. As you see, the cooling fan is dusty and has to be cleaned. UPDATE There are only two fans listed in the service manual for HP Pavilion dv. They are listed on the page 2. AMD processor. 4. Intel processors. You can support my workIt takes hours to create one disassembly guide and only a minute to donate.