OMG and I thought it would be easy to upgrade the RAM. In comparison I had a Dell at work and it had 4 screws and took less than 5 mins to completely upgrade the RAM, including rebooting. This HP (my personal laptop) now looks like a nightmare.... Thanks so much for the video , this will help !
I once had a Compaq (really HP) and a Toshiba (one of the better laptops I had). They all had one or two screws to undo for most upgrades. I miss that with my HP 17-x037cl. It does not seem horribly difficult to open them but I don't think it really was necessary to make it so hard to open them. The worst thing is some people will not buy a computer like that because they are under the impression that these are permanently sealed. Taking to those ones is like talking to a wall, they seem to think they know it already that there is nothing that can be upgraded inside. The truth is that there are removable parts in these the same as any other laptop, just not as easy to get at. I avoid talking to those kind of people because they are pessimists who seem to be cursed with bad luck and always make things harder than they really are.
This is the difference between an ENTERPRISE/BUSINESS computer, and a home computer. I'm sure your one at work was enterprise, and had Windows Pro. HPs that are enterprise level are super-easy to replace HDD/RAM too. It's just that this is a cheap home computer. I did an HDD replacement on a notebook here - it took :45, and 40 minutes of that was imaging. On the other hand, I am now doing my personal computer, and yeah... ugly.
Falciase Can you help me? I have the cover “removed” from the laptop but the keyboard is stuck to what I think is the motherboard. It won’t lift up and Im trying to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece that I didn’t take out or something?
Falciase Yes the cover itself is coming up but half the keyboard is not coming with it. If you have any social media I can show you a picture. It’s frustrating the hell out of me.
Good for the 17-f215dx except the optical drive removal. It stays in until the top is off. One tiny screw is unseen but accessible with the drive half way out, the other is in clear sight, I used a very small flat screwdriver..
very useful teardown thanks few points to note, on my HP 17-p101na 2 screws where battery case are in tear down arent present on my model. the dvd drive was a real pain to extract you would think just remove the screw and pull it out but had to keep fiddling at it think it was stuck down a little with glue or something but eventually came out after pulled off the plastic front facia. when prizing off the keyboard with plastic spudger, there are little clips, you will hear them click when pulled out, they click back in when refitting the keyboard cant believe they make it so annoying just to swap out a drive
Thanks. Need to verify where those hidden screws were for sure. Didn't need to take the entire cover off to replace the old HDD with a SATA SSD. Just help the bottom case up while swapping it out.
Pretty good video, I kinda wish you would have gave a narrative as you went along. Some people dont like it but there was a lot going on hereWhere is the cmos battery??
Thank you for this wonderful resource. That said, this video has decisively convinced me to never, ever attempt to update this machine. Yikes. I will only open it up if my cooling fan fails, as a last ditch effort to save the laptop from a dumpster.
This is one of the worst models to disassemble. Putting in that mini ribbon cable in the rear left should be fun. Only one mini screwdriver fit that optical bay case screw.
I have a 17-x037cl and while very similar to yours it does not have those two black parts in the corners. I am not quite sure how to get that back off aside from removing the screws and prying around the sides. I am wondering how to separate it near the display. Yes, I did get all the screws even the hidden ones under the sticker (mine had two like that). I liked my Toshiba laptop better just because I could open the little panels to get to the hard drive, memory or WIFi card if I ever had to. Now they design these things to make people think they have to take them to a repair center when they want any upgrade. It is either because of greed or they think everyone is dumb and not capable of doing their own upgrades. I personally feel that it is more greed than anything. These are no different from a laptop with the convenient cut outs except they try to make it harder to get into them. I cringe at thoughts of what they might try next. I think they are being kinda silly really while suspecting we are so dumbed down we couldn't change a light bulb.
Actually, there's only one screw that holds it in place. If you press the eject button when it's powered on so you have something to grab, it will slide right out after the screw is removed. I was thinking the same thing. The screw is directly in line with the drive.
Thank you! yes, i disassembled it almost completely only to come to that screw and realize i don't have a small/slim enough screwdriver for that ~~@@DrexelSpivey33
I have only seen one laptop that can take 2 hard drives. It is not a very common thing and that is more true with the less expensive ones. Laptops with 2 hard drives exist but the ones most people get for $300 are not likely do come with room for two. If you have an optical drive you don't use much or at least not enough to justify having it you could get a kit to install a hard drive in that bay. I have never used one of those kits and I can not tell you how well they work or fit but I have seen them on the internet. There are USB optical drives if you do decide to do this and end up reinstalling Windows someday but don't want to undo your modification to install Windows.
Damn, even my MacBook is easier to service/upgrade then this! What is this about? I guess they hope they can make it complicated enough that you just throw in the towel and buy another laptop. Wow.
they do make m.2 to sata (and even IDE lol) adapters, though it would be limited by the controller in terms of speed, but would still be Far faster then the original drive. i'd only recommend getting one if you already have a m.2 laying around or something. otherwise just get a sata ssd.
Can someone help me? I have the cover “removed” from the laptop but the keyboard is stuck to what I think is the motherboard. It won’t lift up and Im trying to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece that I didn’t take out or something?
Can you help me? I have the cover mostly removed from the laptop but the keyboard it self is stuck to the bottom (on what I think I the motherboard). It won’t lift up and I need to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece or screw I have to take out?
It's not easy. It's a complete teardown and reassemble. HP is the worst ergonomically designed laptop out there. They are disposable laptops in my opinion. Use it til it breaks then buy another. That's why I always research the disassembly on any laptop before a purchase.
@@davidjosephjohn8599 I opened everything like on the video to replace the HDD, and re-pasted the cpu at the same time. Not easy as you can see there's a lot of screws to remove, but doable.
What the hell kind of design is that!! Why are the SODIMM and NVMe slots on the back of the motherboard? Now you have to disassemble the whole thing to just upgrade the ram or give it an NVMe SSD. I swear they just want to kill the upgradeability of this thing.
@@stephennazigian8131 If your customer comes back with overheating troubles I would not be surprised. The cooling fan heat tube assembly should be replaced. Cleaning it will buy some time but the fan bearings eventually go dry and it will slow it down below the rpm needed to provide sufficient air flow to cool adequately. Usually machines that are overheating are either filthy with dust or the fan is failing. The reason the heat paste is drying up and not performing well is due to heat produced by the cpu and not being sufficiently cooled by the CFHT assembly.
My brother has this same laptop and wants to upgrade his hdd but seeing how pain in the ass it is fck that lol. My MSI takes less than a minute to get to the ram and hdd.
I saw all the screws on the back thinking this would be easy to replace HD, why is the sound so awful when its called beats Studio volume is very low HP without question worst product on the market
I have one of these HP 17's. NEVER AGAIN. HP, what happened to you? This is ABSURD. Dell, MSI, IBM, ALL other laptops take 4 screws and ~5 min's to update. HP, NOT SO MUCH. HP is HORRIBLE these days. I will NEVER, EVER buy any HP product again (including printer). Again, never buy HP again! Some day these morons will realize how messed up HP has become...
Can you help me? I have the cover “removed” from the laptop but the keyboard is stuck to what I think is the motherboard. It won’t lift up and Im trying to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece that I didn’t take out or something?
I have to agree with you on this absurdly difficult access to the system components. HP has a reputation for quality that is largely myth based on uneducated opinions of end users. They work great as long as you don't ever have to service the things. I worked as a hardware support technician for 20 years and these are the worst machines to work on. They are built like automobiles, meaning engineers design them to be assembled in a factory and they have no concern about what the owner has to go through to fix them when they break down. I worked for a major corporation that did warranty service on every major brand of computer and every platform short of mainframes, and I can tell you these are the worst designed machines of all time for overly complex construction and poor access to components that fail such as HDDs and memory upgrade services. After this thing finally dies - or if it has another problem, it is going to electronic recycling.
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Thanks for posting this helpful video! Just letting you know it's still providing value many years later.
always good because its also very helpful to me too
OMG and I thought it would be easy to upgrade the RAM.
In comparison I had a Dell at work and it had 4 screws and took less than 5 mins to completely upgrade the RAM, including rebooting. This HP (my personal laptop) now looks like a nightmare....
Thanks so much for the video , this will help !
I once had a Compaq (really HP) and a Toshiba (one of the better laptops I had). They all had one or two screws to undo for most upgrades. I miss that with my HP 17-x037cl. It does not seem horribly difficult to open them but I don't think it really was necessary to make it so hard to open them. The worst thing is some people will not buy a computer like that because they are under the impression that these are permanently sealed. Taking to those ones is like talking to a wall, they seem to think they know it already that there is nothing that can be upgraded inside. The truth is that there are removable parts in these the same as any other laptop, just not as easy to get at. I avoid talking to those kind of people because they are pessimists who seem to be cursed with bad luck and always make things harder than they really are.
This is the difference between an ENTERPRISE/BUSINESS computer, and a home computer. I'm sure your one at work was enterprise, and had Windows Pro. HPs that are enterprise level are super-easy to replace HDD/RAM too. It's just that this is a cheap home computer. I did an HDD replacement on a notebook here - it took :45, and 40 minutes of that was imaging. On the other hand, I am now doing my personal computer, and yeah... ugly.
Mine too. Some laptops do not even allow for battery switch w/o back removal
This video helped me replace my drives last night. Appreciate the help!
Thank you! This helped me swap out the mechanical spinning drive for a new SSD! This will bring new life to this aging laptop!
That's what I want to do, is it worth it?
@@gudlike3634 Yes, I think so. The laptop was hardly usable but now it's great! Should get another year or two out of it for sure now!
Falciase Can you help me? I have the cover “removed” from the laptop but the keyboard is stuck to what I think is the motherboard. It won’t lift up and Im trying to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece that I didn’t take out or something?
@@laflame1652 did you use a pick or some plastic piece to pry the edges up like at @3:13? Or have you not gotten that far yet?
Falciase Yes the cover itself is coming up but half the keyboard is not coming with it. If you have any social media I can show you a picture. It’s frustrating the hell out of me.
Thank you, this is a cheap laptop and a lot of hell to take apart without your help. Much appreciated. I missed the screws on the back feet!
Good for the 17-f215dx except the optical drive removal. It stays in until the top is off. One tiny screw is unseen but accessible with the drive half way out, the other is in clear sight, I used a very small flat screwdriver..
If the video also had spoken explanation as to what is removed as it is being, would be helpful. Good vid. Assume we know little to nothing.
DOESN'T SPEAK ENGLISH 😂😂
Thank you , very helpful , but wtf do they have to make it so freakin difficult
so that you pay them to do it
They're hoping you'd just give up and buy another one!
very useful teardown thanks
few points to note, on my HP 17-p101na 2 screws where battery case are in tear down arent present on my model.
the dvd drive was a real pain to extract you would think just remove the screw and pull it out but had to keep fiddling at it think it was stuck down a little with glue or something but eventually came out after pulled off the plastic front facia.
when prizing off the keyboard with plastic spudger, there are little clips, you will hear them click when pulled out, they click back in when refitting the keyboard
cant believe they make it so annoying just to swap out a drive
Excellent video!! Made my teardown simple!!! THANK YOU!!
Thanks for the simple, no bullshit, video style, helped a lot!
Super useful, a real life saver thank you
Thanks. Need to verify where those hidden screws were for sure. Didn't need to take the entire cover off to replace the old HDD with a SATA SSD. Just help the bottom case up while swapping it out.
Mother of hidden screws, thank you
thanks a million for your time and trouble
Gracias Amigo thank you!! shalom!!
Just fixed a friend's laptop. Using this video made it a breeze. Took barely an hour and now it runs like new again.
I have a 17-108sa and this video worked for me, could have had a bit of sound, but nevertheless it is a good vid.
quite intense to do a ram upgrade eh?
very useful, thanks a lot!
DVD is extracted by magic hand without cable detachment
in laptops DVD aren't attached with cables. It is connected like the hard drive
That is why I hate HP laptops. You can't even add memory without taking out the whole mobo. Excellent!
Pretty good video, I kinda wish you would have gave a narrative as you went along. Some people dont like it but there was a lot going on hereWhere is the cmos battery??
It is located next to the SODIMM slots - the CR2032 is clearly shown in the video.
Very very helpful Thanks
Thank you for this wonderful resource.
That said, this video has decisively convinced me to never, ever attempt to update this machine. Yikes.
I will only open it up if my cooling fan fails, as a last ditch effort to save the laptop from a dumpster.
Is the keyboard sealed in once the top is lifted off? I was hoping to replace mine.
Are those ribbon cables easy to reconnect when you reassemble?
Does this exact laptop have a CMOS (coin sized silver battery) I don't want to rip it apart for nothing
yes it does cr2032 lithium you can see it when he is accessing memory upper right corner.
very helpful, thank you!
This is one of the worst models to disassemble. Putting in that mini ribbon cable in the rear left should be fun. Only one mini screwdriver fit that optical bay case screw.
I have a 17-x037cl and while very similar to yours it does not have those two black parts in the corners. I am not quite sure how to get that back off aside from removing the screws and prying around the sides. I am wondering how to separate it near the display. Yes, I did get all the screws even the hidden ones under the sticker (mine had two like that). I liked my Toshiba laptop better just because I could open the little panels to get to the hard drive, memory or WIFi card if I ever had to. Now they design these things to make people think they have to take them to a repair center when they want any upgrade. It is either because of greed or they think everyone is dumb and not capable of doing their own upgrades. I personally feel that it is more greed than anything. These are no different from a laptop with the convenient cut outs except they try to make it harder to get into them. I cringe at thoughts of what they might try next. I think they are being kinda silly really while suspecting we are so dumbed down we couldn't change a light bulb.
I don't know how you disassembled the cd reader.
You just pulled it out but there obviously has to be a lot of work before that.
Actually, there's only one screw that holds it in place. If you press the eject button when it's powered on so you have something to grab, it will slide right out after the screw is removed. I was thinking the same thing. The screw is directly in line with the drive.
Thank you! yes, i disassembled it almost completely only to come to that screw and realize i don't have a small/slim enough screwdriver for that ~~@@DrexelSpivey33
Thanks, laptop still has a little life
How can I remove the keyboard from it...?
Will that laptop support an after market backlit keyboard?
Can you replace the CPU on these notebook..
thanks for sharing, i am very dissapointed that this size of notebook called PC by OEM, has only ONE place for HDD
you're telling me that HP actually hasnt been shit for once and put 2 Drives in their notebooks!?
you have only 1 place, be prepared...(
I replaced my Dvd drive with a second hdd bay, so now i have two places :D
I have only seen one laptop that can take 2 hard drives. It is not a very common thing and that is more true with the less expensive ones. Laptops with 2 hard drives exist but the ones most people get for $300 are not likely do come with room for two. If you have an optical drive you don't use much or at least not enough to justify having it you could get a kit to install a hard drive in that bay. I have never used one of those kits and I can not tell you how well they work or fit but I have seen them on the internet. There are USB optical drives if you do decide to do this and end up reinstalling Windows someday but don't want to undo your modification to install Windows.
Damn, even my MacBook is easier to service/upgrade then this! What is this about? I guess they hope they can make it complicated enough that you just throw in the towel and buy another laptop. Wow.
Good job 👏🏼
How does the speaker output cable reattach to the sound card?
Is that the cmos battery when you flip over the fan????
Yes it's a CR2032.
How to upgrade RAM in HP RMN:C135
Can I replace the processor for a new one and what size processor should I get?
Soldered on, No
Is there ssd slot on this?
hey can you make a video showing how to disassemble the screen
Hey, I don`t have that computer any more sry.
I have 17-f053us which seems similar. I only upgraded to 1TB SSD. Question: does the MB have a M.2 slot? Last time I did not take the MB out. Thanks,
Could you find an answer for your question, I wonder too if it has m.2 slot!
@@purovox It does not, at least on the HP Pavilion 17-f045nf.
@@asmoth360 Thanks for your reply!
they do make m.2 to sata (and even IDE lol) adapters, though it would be limited by the controller in terms of speed, but would still be Far faster then the original drive. i'd only recommend getting one if you already have a m.2 laying around or something. otherwise just get a sata ssd.
no pude sacar la la charola del dvd esta como pegada
I thought I gone deaf for a moment 😂
Can someone help me? I have the cover “removed” from the laptop but the keyboard is stuck to what I think is the motherboard. It won’t lift up and Im trying to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece that I didn’t take out or something?
Can you help me? I have the cover mostly removed from the laptop but the keyboard it self is stuck to the bottom (on what I think I the motherboard). It won’t lift up and I need to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece or screw I have to take out?
@@laflame1652 I have the same issue hp 17-p121wm
@@EuroGvng747 Whoever designed this laptop is a dickhead. There’s a hidden screw deep in the middle that you have to take out.
Is the CPU soldered to the board?
Yes
Any suggestion on how to take apart the touchscreen. Seems that the laptop I am working on has a short in it's cable (the small 6ish pin one.
8:00 where to buy tye fun?
hiya just asking how easy it is to re-paste the CPU on this model can any one help thanks
It's not easy. It's a complete teardown and reassemble. HP is the worst ergonomically designed laptop out there. They are disposable laptops in my opinion. Use it til it breaks then buy another. That's why I always research the disassembly on any laptop before a purchase.
@@davidjosephjohn8599 I opened everything like on the video to replace the HDD, and re-pasted the cpu at the same time. Not easy as you can see there's a lot of screws to remove, but doable.
What the hell kind of design is that!! Why are the SODIMM and NVMe slots on the back of the motherboard? Now you have to disassemble the whole thing to just upgrade the ram or give it an NVMe SSD. I swear they just want to kill the upgradeability of this thing.
HP Pavilion 17 laptop disassembly, take apart, teardown tutorial
This video is perfect, but how much should I charge for going in and applying new heat paste to fix an overheating problem? Anyone?
Heat paste is good stuff, but its not really a fix is it?
@@ziblot1235 I got my answer from a shop. $50 And, yes it really is the proper fix when a heatsink fails to maintain good contact.
@@stephennazigian8131 If your customer comes back with overheating troubles I would not be surprised. The cooling fan heat tube assembly should be replaced. Cleaning it will buy some time but the fan bearings eventually go dry and it will slow it down below the rpm needed to provide sufficient air flow to cool adequately. Usually machines that are overheating are either filthy with dust or the fan is failing. The reason the heat paste is drying up and not performing well is due to heat produced by the cpu and not being sufficiently cooled by the CFHT assembly.
@@Oper8r999 Good information.
My brother has this same laptop and wants to upgrade his hdd but seeing how pain in the ass it is fck that lol. My MSI takes less than a minute to get to the ram and hdd.
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U kinda saved me 600€ there
I saw all the screws on the back thinking this would be easy to replace HD, why is the sound so awful when its called beats Studio volume is very low HP without question worst product on the market
I have one of these HP 17's. NEVER AGAIN. HP, what happened to you? This is ABSURD. Dell, MSI, IBM, ALL other laptops take 4 screws and ~5 min's to update. HP, NOT SO MUCH. HP is HORRIBLE these days. I will NEVER, EVER buy any HP product again (including printer). Again, never buy HP again! Some day these morons will realize how messed up HP has become...
Can you help me? I have the cover “removed” from the laptop but the keyboard is stuck to what I think is the motherboard. It won’t lift up and Im trying to replace my hard drive. Is there a piece that I didn’t take out or something?
I have to agree with you on this absurdly difficult access to the system components. HP has a reputation for quality that is largely myth based on uneducated opinions of end users. They work great as long as you don't ever have to service the things. I worked as a hardware support technician for 20 years and these are the worst machines to work on. They are built like automobiles, meaning engineers design them to be assembled in a factory and they have no concern about what the owner has to go through to fix them when they break down. I worked for a major corporation that did warranty service on every major brand of computer and every platform short of mainframes, and I can tell you these are the worst designed machines of all time for overly complex construction and poor access to components that fail such as HDDs and memory upgrade services.
After this thing finally dies - or if it has another problem, it is going to electronic recycling.