Thanks for this video. Was thinking to disassemble one I found at a thrift shop, to do a thorough cleaning, but, HELL, NO! The people who designed this should be lashed. It’s EXTREMELY complicated for no reason. I truly admire laptop manufacturers that understand that all what’s needed is to remove the screws from the underside and pry a single plastic part to access most internal components
My fan was completely stuck so the pc would shutdown from the heat. I replaced it with a new one and it's fine now. The video helped on the dissassembly and especially on the assembly. Be careful with the plastic pieces as i broke on and had to glue it back, you may not need to take them out
Thanks, worked perfectly. Had to disassemble everything to change 13 year old thermal paste. :) Regarding the sides, this laptop now being at least 11 years old, the plastic on at least one side will break 100% if you try to peel it like in the video. I didn't even remove it after seeing it started to snap (all connectors broke in the first half :( ), so I left it on and used my car keys (sounds terrible, i know), to carefully pry the speaker cover and it worked. The trouble for me is that I always try to be gentle, but here you really have to use force from time to time :D
To change thermal paste and clean the cooler had to do the same like in video. this is terrible. I have hp probook and there just 1 single button to open the laptop and get to the cpu
![HP ENVY DV7 - disassemble & fan replacement [4K]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kHNtz3d6AO0/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks for this video. Was thinking to disassemble one I found at a thrift shop, to do a thorough cleaning, but, HELL, NO! The people who designed this should be lashed. It’s EXTREMELY complicated for no reason. I truly admire laptop manufacturers that understand that all what’s needed is to remove the screws from the underside and pry a single plastic part to access most internal components
@David Singleton I get that, that's why Right To Repair must become law
My fan was completely stuck so the pc would shutdown from the heat. I replaced it with a new one and it's fine now. The video helped on the dissassembly and especially on the assembly. Be careful with the plastic pieces as i broke on and had to glue it back, you may not need to take them out
thanks for this. i dont know much about computers but soon will attempt to use your video to take my dv7 appart as the fan is blocked. im so nervous
1:35 could you please tell me what this part is ?
is this related to display ? it has a monitor icon above it
Thanks, worked perfectly. Had to disassemble everything to change 13 year old thermal paste. :) Regarding the sides, this laptop now being at least 11 years old, the plastic on at least one side will break 100% if you try to peel it like in the video. I didn't even remove it after seeing it started to snap (all connectors broke in the first half :( ), so I left it on and used my car keys (sounds terrible, i know), to carefully pry the speaker cover and it worked. The trouble for me is that I always try to be gentle, but here you really have to use force from time to time :D
To change thermal paste and clean the cooler had to do the same like in video. this is terrible.
I have hp probook and there just 1 single button to open the laptop and get to the cpu
Good job man thanks for sharing
Those side pieces.....DO NOT come off! Do NOT try removing them!
Thanks
a really pain in the ass to dissasembly design I'm stuck trying to not break the plastic side parts the worst design ever shame on you HP
awful laptop
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