Someone told me to always check twice to make sure you don't have any screws that you forgot! Thanks for reminding me of that priceless piece of information!
There is 1 screw on the back you need to take out, it has a little "CD" stamp next to it in the cover, and it is placed about 16.5 cm in from edge of laptop. When you have it out, just pull the optical drive out. Then, with drive out, you are able to access the flat screws, of which she stripped 1. Pay no regard to the other answers you got, those people have no clue.
Hi, I have precisely the same laptop, 17 f121ds I believe. I looked at your video before ordering the SSD and memory, to be sure I wouldn"t destroy the laptop beforehand. Your screw stripping made me be very careful with those 2 screws. I thought the faceplate was going to break, but it didn't. Thanks for the pioneering effort.
Wow, crazy! My old fashioned 2011 HP Paviliion dv7 has a "T" shaped panel that pulls off with no screws at all for access to the RAM & HDD. Anyway, good vid, if you buy a Dremel you can carve a slot in the stripped screw then you can just use a flathead screwdriver and get that "expletive" screw right out lol. Thanks for the vid!!
Thanks for absolutely brilliant Video! I wasn't looking for Pro rather non-technical stuff, however, I'm glad to see it. Retired and browsing but since 1958 after selling my first home made 'Resistor Substitution Box', well, I must confess that you made it all look so easy! I'll keep the SSD in mind. Here's why I'm happy; Some Tech's are fast because they cheat and People know it. And others Cheat but then they really don't have the skills to Repair. And I always did the work, meaning that if it was a melted capacitor then I had charged 20 Cents for it, and if I had ruined or burned 3 or 4 adjacent Capacitors then I paid the $1 loss out of pocket. I would never make a Customer pay for a Motherboard if all they had needed to do was clean off the dust on a contact. But I still pay People to do their work for me. The next time I need anything Repaired, well, I hope you'll be available! Take Care
Just bought a HP Pavilion Laptop and really wanted that 4 GB of ram upgrading, thanks for the heads up on replacing the ram I will be sure not to strip any screw heads.
Awesome vid and helpful on how to crack into these odd Pavilions.. my Pavilion the mem/hdd are right under the rear cover. Her's however is similar to yours... remove the many screws, pry the keyboard up and her MB was mounted underneath the keyboard with the HDD and memory on there. I digress her laptop was dragging which I think was a drive issue... upgraded her RAM from 8 to 16 and tossed in a SSD. Night and day difference now!
HP failed to add a cover for updating the RAM , on newer Laptops they added this feature, but you did a good job in this video. The touchpad ribbon cable is very delicate and should be disconnected BEFORE you attempt to make changes to the driver. The star socket screw (underneath the DVD drive ) is very odd .
My sister gave me a book "Hope for the Flowers". I think "flowers' were female. I'm a former Marine and coder. You don't know how refreshing it is to see a, may I say, female participant in this refurb stuff. SHARKPLUS at the Google dealy. Love you work.
Hi 🌹even tho you posted this video about 5 years ago, it's still a good one to watch! In that model, can the CPU be upgraded as well? Have a couple of HP G62 (& an HP Compaq CQ56, similar to the above HP) that can be upgraded. Thanks 🤓🌹(you're hot!) Sorta of a hassle to swap the RAM & SSD by having to open the laptop from the keyboard side!
This is the laptop I have and wanna upgrade the ram and hard drive on. Man that seems like a lot of work. I hate HP. They always make things way more complicated than they should be
Nice new channel here! Looks like you could have stuck something to that little screw with superglue or resin to get it out -something to get traction like another screw head, or even the screwdriver - that can work :).
5:46 I have the exact same model & that disc CAN BE removed. If you managed to figure it out, kudos 👏 If not, the small silver metal trip that you see protruding out of the disc drive has a screw in the epicenter. Just turn the device upside dow , find that last darn screw in the Hole of China (😂) and remove it. That aside, thanks for the video, it did help me out on my first attempt at repairing a laptop!
HP notebook of this generation is a pain - older HP has dedicated cover to change RAM and HD. Current Dell is not too hard to crack open and change battery and RAM. I watched some HP video and crack one open to add RAM from 4 to 8G. Such a pain and high risk of wrecking the notebook in the process.
Well Done !! I;m contemplating doing this ( SSHD and RAM) to my Pavilion G Series but Im scared to death. I have SO MUCH stuff on this laptop I cannot afford to lose it. I have been backing up to a Seagrave disk but I'm not sure IF in fact Im keeping things current on the backup. Thinking of SAMSUNG as my SSHD choice. Just wondering what if any experience you've had with their support? Thanks again for the video ...WELL DONE !!.... Rich
Thank you for the video! I have a hp pavilion dm4 laptop and I have been using it for 10 years, it is a i5, I upgrade the sotre memory from hhd to ssd and it improved a lot, I am going to append a 4 gb ram memory. I would like to know which other parts or specs I could upgrade to improve the performance. Thank you so much!
The breakdown into remove the keyboard and expose the motherboard, drive was ok. However, I was watching to see the installation of the RAM and wasn't able to actually see this done in a clear concise way. Thanks anyway.
Hi sister, i don't know if you can help me, but would you know if the HP 17-ca0003na HD Laptop can take other forms of Hard drives like nvme or m.2 sata? Thanks sister
Hi Thanks for the video. I have HP Pavilion 15-au003tx with 8 GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM ,Can I put another RAM of 8GB DDR4-2133 SDRAM but of a different company like samsung. The existing RAM of 8 GB is of a different company. Thanks
Hello, thank you for this video, helping me a lot. Although I have a couple questions: My computer is an HDD could I change it to an SSD? Also, is any possibility to change the processor to an updated one? Sorry for my ignorance.
Thanks for the video, I have the same exact laptop I believe! I just got off the phone with HP and they suck, pretty much couldn't answer my question regarding the ram and mhz required. What is the frequency you are using and how did you figure out which ram was compatible for this laptop?? Any help would be super appreciated and thanks! :D
if you look up your exact model number then you should be able to find compatible RAM. Crucial's website also allows you to look it up. you can also check your laptop's BIOS or other system check to see what you currently have installed. You'll more than likely need DDR3 SODIMM sticks. I believe I used 1600 speed since this laptop is used for just everyday usage, nothing too extreme.
Hello, Right now I would like to change from HDD to SSD for my laptop HP Pavilion g6. Please let me know should I use Samsung 850 EVO like you in this video, and where I can buy it. I have just stayed here for 2 weeks. Thank you,
I have almost the identical computer. I just opened it tonight to put in new memory just to find that the memory HP told me to buy is about a millimeter too wide. Can you please tell me the chips that fit in yours? I’m wanting to max it out with 32gb.
I don't know much about these upgrades, but, however, I would like to upgrade my Pavilion, and if it's worth it, for video editing as in 6k video editing. Not sure if I can do that. My aim, so-called, is to have 64gbRam, and 4T of memory. Or what might you recommend, a new computer (I prefer a laptop), perhaps? Thank you very much!
hello, I just came across this video. I have an HP Pavilion 17, is it the same handling? I still have all my original components and I would like to replace the hard drive with an SSD and increase the RAM to make my PC faster. I am French and I don't understand English, can I still follow this tutorial while neglecting your words? Thank you
i like the video. i have the same type one which is 2yr old and i want to upgrade ram so i could play heavy games. is it worthy to install 2gb or 4gb ram? any changes in speed?..
hi! can you help me? i want to upgrade my laptop aslo. we have the same model. i want to upgrade it so that i can play valorant smoothly. so any recommendations?
Yes, it should be possible, for technical details, you can refer to this doc, page 12 : h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03094322 . You can also consider the following upgrade solution : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H09SEyoE8yY.html. Be also aware that upgrading memory (up to an overall 8gb) can be very usefull, 4gb is not enough nowadays.
your video can be more helpful if you didn't fast forward part of you video thinking that people whos watching it know what they doing ,,, i was looking for a video like that i have the same laptop with 6 gig memory and i want to put 16 gig, but u go so fast for part of it ,that i don't think i will do it by myself.... and usualy when i watch video i can do it by myself ,,, i have no problem with desktop at all but laptop its another story since they removed the cover in the back ...
Hello maam My laptop is p205tx hp model, while upgrading when I add more 8 gb of ram my screen goes black and won't boot, I tried by using one at a time then works but together it won't Help needed
It is not likely, it would be surprising to have a NVMe port available on such old laptop (2014). the upgrade from mechanical HDD to SATA SDD is already a great improvment (and RAM increase too) and the principle of this upgrade was to re-use an unsued SSD, not to look for top performance in buying high end stuff.
Please redo that video. To much talking and almost no showing of how you install the ram correctly. That is what people want to see the correct way in a slower clearer procedure. Thanks anyway for your attempt.
