Now you can access the keyboard cable connector. You’ll be able to insert your fingers between the keyboard and top cover assembly and lift it up.Ĭontinue removing the keyboard and move it towards the screen. While pushing on the back side of the keyboard you’ll see the front side of the keyboard will lift up a little bit. By doing that you actually pushing on the back side of the keyboard. Insert a very small screwdriver into the whole where the keyboard screw was located. Now the tricky part to remove the keyboard. Pull the DVD drive to the left and remove it. Installing a solid state drive will speed up your laptop significantly. I recommend upgrading this regular (slow) hard drive to a 2.5″ SATA solid state drive. In my HP Pavilion dv7 I didn’t have secondary hard dive installed. Lift up and remove the primary hard drive assembly. Remove four screws securing the primary hard drive mounting bracket.ĭisconnect the primary hard drive cable from the motherboard. This laptop has two memory slots and can handle up to 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-12800 SODIMM memory modules. – Primary and secondary (optional) hard drives. Under the bottom hatch you can get access to the following internal components: You’ll have to wiggle the hatch in order to remove it. Slide the battery latch to the left (unlocked position).Īt the same time insert something under the bottom hatch and lift it up.Ĭontinue removing the hatch with your fingers. First of all, make sure the computer is turned off. STEP 24-25: Accessing the DC power jack harness and cooling fan. STEP 17-23: Removing the palmrest assembly. STEP 10-16: Disconnecting and removing the keyboard. STEP 1-9: Accessing both memory modules, wireless card, CMOS battery. In the following guide I’ll go though the following major disassembly steps: If your laptop looks like one shown on the following picture, this guide will work for you.Īt the end of the guide you’ll find links to other three dv7 models. In this particular case I’m taking apart dv7-6113cl model.

This guide was made for HP Pavilion dv7-6000 series. This is my THIRD disassembly guide for HP Pavilion dv7 series.

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