HP LaptopHP Pavilion 13Teardown
HP Pavilion 13 Disassembly and RAM, HDD Upgrade Options
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble HP Pavilion 13. I will remove the battery, RAM, wireless card, keyboard, palm rest, hard drive, heat sink, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Laptop model: HP Pavilion 13-B116TU, P/N: J8C75PA.
First of all, remove all screws from the bottom case.
Flip over the laptop. Pry up the palm rest with a pry bar. Be careful, as the keyboard and touchpad cables are still connected to the motherboard.
Disconnect the keyboard cable and touchpad cable and remove the palm rest.
The palm rest has been removed. Now, you can remove and replace the keyboard.
Under the palm rest, you can access the battery, hard drive, speaker, and cooling fan.
Disconnect the white cable and battery power cable. Remove the screws securing the battery.
The HP Pavilion 13 comes with an 11.4v, 43wh Li-ion battery, HP P/N: 760944-421, HSTNN-LB6L. The battery cells should come from LG because the battery has the LG P/N: HP-011401-PRR13G01.
Disconnect the cable and remove two screws securing the hard drive and remove the hard drive.
The HP Pavilion 13 has a Toshiba 500GB 5400 RPM hard drive.
Disconnect the wireless card antenna and remove one screw. You can remove the wireless card.
HP Pavilion 13 features a Qualcomm Atheros QCWB335 wireless card.
HP P/N: 733476-001, 733268-001
HP Pavilion 13 motherboard, the laptop has two RAM slots.
HP Pavilion 13 comes with a 4GB Kingston PC3L-12800S RAM.
HP Pavilion 13 heat sink and cooling fan
Note: There are screws under the two back rubber feet and under the two centre slots covered by eggs shaped grey stickers, as well as the 10 exposed screws that need to be undone to remove the bottom case.
Good call! I couldn’t get off till I found another article that mentioned these. Re-seated the wireless card and fixed my wireless connection problem. I didn’t have a plastic spudger or pry bar to lift the palm rest up, but I used a Swiss army knife and a large flathead jeweler screwdriver to the same effect. The keyboard assembly WILL come out without breaking, even if it seems like it’s about to. Just make sure to clip it all back in place later. It makes the same horrible cracking sound as it does when you’re taking it apart.
Please, what happens when you disable the laptop from the security boot option in the settings?
Can I add 8GB RAM to this laptop?