HP Pavilion dv7 laptop disassembly, take apart, teardown tutorial 

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 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

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

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

Good job man thanks for sharing

Those side pieces.....DO NOT come off! Do NOT try removing them!

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

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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