Fixing a HP/Compaq laptop yourself? Need some help with taking the laptop apart? Here are links to manuals with step-by-step disassembly instructions. All these manuals are available from the HP website.
Here’s how to get the manual:
1. Follow the link
2. Select your model
3. Go to manuals
4. Find the maintenance and service guide and open it up (pdf file, some of them are huge)
5. Go to Removal and Replacement procedures chapter, you’ll find disassembly instructions in there
Manuals for the following Compaq Armada Notebook PC series. Get maintenance and service guide.
Compaq Armada 110, Compaq Armada 110s, Compaq Armada 1100, Compaq Armada 1500, Compaq Armada 1500c, Compaq Armada 1700, Compaq Armada 1750, Compaq Armada 3500, Compaq Armada 4100, Compaq Armada 4200, Compaq Armada 6500, Armada 7300, Compaq rmada 7400, Compaq Armada 7700, Compaq Armada 7800, Compaq Armada e500, Compaq Armada e500s, Compaq Armada E700, Compaq Armada m300, Compaq Armada m700, Compaq Armada SB, Compaq Armada V300
Manuals for the following Compaq Evo Notebook PC series. Get maintenance and service guide.
Compaq Evo n150, Compaq Evo n160, Compaq Evo n180, Compaq Evo n400c, Compaq Evo n410c, Compaq Evo n600c, Compaq Evo n610c, Compaq Evo n610v, Compaq Evo n620c, Compaq Evo n800c, Compaq Evo n800v, Compaq Evo n800w, Compaq Evo n1000c, Compaq Evo n1000v, Compaq Evo n1005v, Compaq Evo n1010v, Compaq Evo n1015v, Compaq Evo n1020v, Compaq Evo n1050v, Compaq Evo n200, Compaq Evo n110, Compaq vo n115
Manuals for the following HP Compaq Notebook PC series. Get maintenance and service guide.
HP Compaq 2400, HP Compaq 4400, HP Compaq 6100, HP Compaq 6200, HP Compaq 6300, HP Compaq 6305, HP Compaq 7400, HP Compaq 8200, HP Compaq 8400, HP Compaq 9400, HP Compaq nc4000, HP Compaq nc4010, HP Compaq nc4200, HP Compaq nc6000, HP Compaq nc6400, HP Compaq nc8000, HP Compaq nw8000, HP Compaq nw8240, HP Compaq nx4300, HP Compaq nx4800, HP Compaq nx4820, HP Compaq nx5000, HP Compaq nx6130, HP Compaq nx7000, HP Compaq nx7010, HP Compaq nx7100, HP Compaq nx7200, HP Compaq nx7220, HP Compaq nx7300, HP Compaq nx9000, HP Compaq nx9005, HP Compaq nx9008, HP Compaq nx9010, HP Compaq nx9020, HP Compaq nx9030, HP Compaq nx9040, HP Compaq nx9100, HP Compaq nx9105, HP Compaq nx9110, HP Compaq nx9500, HP Compaq nx9500A, HP Compaq nx9600
Manuals for the following HP Pavilion Notebook PC series. Get maintenance and service guide.
HP Pavilion de2000, HP Pavilion dv1000, HP Pavilion dv2000, HP Pavilion dv4000, HP Pavilion dv5000, HP Pavilion dv6000, HP Pavilion dv8000m, HP Pavilion dv9000, HP Pavilion n Notebook PC series, HP Pavilion tx1000, HP Pavilion xf Notebook PC series, HP Pavilion xh Notebook PC series, HP Pavilion xt Notebook PC series, HP Pavilion xu Notebook PC series, HP Pavilion xz Notebook PC series, HP Pavilion zd7000, HP Pavilion zd8000, HP Pavilion ze1000, HP Pavilion ze2000, HP Pavilion ze4000, HP Pavilion ze5000, HP Pavilion zt1000, HP Pavilion zt3000, HP Pavilion zu1000, HP Pavilion zv5000, HP Pavilion zv6000, HP Pavilion zx5000
Manuals for the following HP Presario Notebook PC series. Get maintenance and service guide.
Compaq Presario 300, Compaq Presario 700, Compaq Presario 800, Compaq Presario 900, Compaq Presario 1000, Compaq Presario 1100, Compaq Presario 1200, Compaq Presario 1400, Compaq Presario 1500, Compaq Presario 1600, Compaq Presario 1700, Compaq Presario 1800, Compaq Presario 1900, Compaq Presario 2100, Compaq Presario 2200, Compaq Presario 2500, Compaq Presario 2700, Compaq Presario 2800, Compaq Presario 3000, Compaq Presario B1000, Compaq Presario B2000, Compaq Presario B3000, Compaq Presario C300, Compaq Presario C500, Compaq Presario F500, Compaq Presario M2000, Compaq Presario R3000, Compaq Presario R4000, Compaq Presario V1000, Compaq Presario V2000, Compaq Presario V3000, Compaq Presario V4000, Compaq Presario V5000, Compaq Presario V6000, Compaq Presario X1000, Compaq Presario X1100, Compaq Presario X1200, Compaq Presario X1300, Compaq Presario X1400, Presario X1500, Compaq Presario X6000
Manuals for the following HP Special Edition Notebook PCs. Get maintenance and service guide.
Special Edition L2000 CTO Notebook PC, Special Edition L2005A3, Special Edition L2005A4, Special Edition L2005CL, Special Edition L2005CM, Special Edition L2005CO, Special Edition L2005CU, Special Edition L2005CX, Special Edition L2005US, Special Edition L2098XX, Special Edition L2099XX, Special Edition L2105CA, Special Edition L2105CL, Special Edition L2105NR, Special Edition L2205NR, Special Edition L2300 CTO Notebook PC, Special Edition L2310CU
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May 16th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Lawrence,
Check the wireless card in the device manager. Do you see any yellow exclamation mark in the wireless card entry?
Try reinstalling the driver. Try reseating the wireless card, just remove it from the socket and install back in place. Make sure the wireless connection is not disabled.
I cannot give you 100% remedy for this problem, there could be many different hardware or software related issues.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:51 am
I have a Compaq EVO and when i try to get on the internet it gives me an error that I don’t have a wireless card, but it is built into the computer. I have tried everything i can think of an i am still unable to connect to the internet. Router works fine. just can’t get on the net. PLEASE HELP ME!!
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Herb Krakau,
Try starting the laptop without the LCD screen connected, use an external monitor instead. Check if the video cable is properly connected to the motherboard. If the video connector on the motherboard has pins inside, make sure there are no bent pins. Check if the memory module is seated properly, move it into another slot and test the laptop again.
If for some reason you removed the CPU during disassembly, make sure it’s seated properly and LOCKED inside the socket.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:38 am
hello there i have a compaq x1000 laptop and im having problem with it and i need an answer for this and hope you can help me..i was on my laptop and it shutted down in intermitted mode and when i plugged in the a/c adapter since it was low on battery and when i try turning it back on it boots up fans spinning and then a sec or 2 later it shuts down and it contiue doing this when i take the battery out and plug in the a/c adapter it wont turn on at all but when i plug the battery back in with the a/c adapter in it it boots up and then shuts itself off? its weird that it wont turn on without the battery it is 4 years old and i like to know what could be the problem? ty
April 18th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
My daughter’s HP Pavilion zt1290 had a failed solder joint where one of the pins of the ac adapter connector goes into the motherboard. I re-soldered the connector, but now the machine won’t boot. Thanks to learning a bit from your site, I tried to systematically find out what was wrong. Here are a few of the things I tried & the symptoms that resulted:
1) Tried to boot with only the motherboard, the screen, the processor heat sink, the fan, and the power adapter. At this point, the memory modules were the only other thing plugged in.
Result: Fan starts up for 5 seconds or so, and turns off. Screen dark.
2) Reset the system using a paper clip, as the HP manual suggests.
Result: Same as 1).
3) Added the optical drive with the XP system disk inserted.
Result: The fan & screen behave as in 1), but the drive starts up & runs for a while (perhaps a minute – I didn’t time it), and seems to be seeking occasionally, based on the noise I could hear. Then the drive stops also.
4) Removed optical drive and tried all the possible configurations of the 2 memory modules, one at a time in each of the 2 memory slots, and both in, but each in the opposite slot from where it had started.
Result: Same as 1).
5) Tried 1), 2) & 3) with an external monitor plugged in the VGA out port (with the laptop’s display still connected).
Result: Same as 1) & the external display stays blank.
Result: Same as 1).
6) Playing around with the configurations, I noticed that the status LCD display on the front edge of a laptop would show the time. I started trying the buttons for the status display on the front edge and found that with an audio CD in the optical drive, I could get the display to show that it was trying to play the CD. That is, for example, to display would show it going to the first track and would start timing, as if it was playing the track. The buttons would allow me to switch tracks, and start/stop playing, at least according to the LCD display. The CD itself with spinning in the drive. I tried putting the speakers back, and the little board that has the external volume and audio on off buttons to see if I would hear music. There was no sound.
I’m really perplexed, particularly since it had been booting up until this point when the power connector was working (before I took it apart). I’m pretty aware of precautions necessary to avoid static damage, so I don’t think it’s likely that that is what occurred. I’m also confused by the symptoms with the CDs that I described, because I don’t know the relationship between that kind of CD playing (from the front panel, with the computer off) and the rest of the computer.
Any suggestions or advice would be very much appreciated. Thanks!
April 18th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I have a compaq armada 1700 and it wont come on what do i do???
April 17th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Will the LCD of the Compaq Evo n1050v work on the HP Compaq NX9010? Or is there any modification on the wiring needed?
April 17th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Dear Mis/Sir!
I have had a Compaq Presario 900 since 2002. I have a problem by connecting my USB Stick with my Laptop. While I need to read my USB (Saver 512 Mbyte), I have to restart the Laptop every time. Would you please to help me to solve this problem.
Thanks a lot,
Mehran
April 10th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
my labtop goes on and all i see is blue seen & it stays like that
April 9th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
I HAVE A PRESARIOV5000 AND I’M HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY LAPTOP TURNING ON. LAST TIME I WAS USING IT IT WAS WORKING JUST FINE AFTER I WAS DONE I TURNED IT OFF LIKE I USUALLY DO. WHEN I CAME BACK FROM WORK I FOUND ONE OF THE PROCESSOR ORANGE LIGHT ON. I THOUGH I HAD LEFT IT ON AND TRIED TO TURN IT OFF BUT IT WOULDN’T RESPOND TO ANYTHING I TRY DOING. I TRY REEBOTING, CHANGING MEMORY CARD DIFFERENT BATERIE AND OTHER TROUBLESHOOTING GUIDES BUT NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK. IF SOMEONE KNOWS A RESOLUTION TO MY PROBLEM I WOULD APRECIATE ANY HELP I CAN GET.