HP Laptop HP Pavilion 15

HP Pavilion 15-d000 disassembly and RAM, HDD upgrade options

David September 18, 2024

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HP Pavilion 15-d101tx is an entertainment notebook that uses an Intel Haswell i5-4200M 2.5GHz dual-core processor. It’s integrated with an Intel HD Graphics 4600 graphics card. The laptop also adopted the NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M graphics card; it also comes with 4GB DDR3L 1600MHz memory and 500GB HDD hard drive. Today, we take a look at its internal structure.

In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble HP Pavilion 15-d000 to remove the bottom case, hard drive, RAM, DVD drive, keyboard, palm rest, wireless card, heat sink, cooling fan, card reader, and motherboard.

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Unlock and remove the battery.
Remove all screws from the bottom case.

Remove the service cover. You can get access to the RAM and wireless card.
Remove the four screws.

Remove the plastic mat. You can find another screw and remove it, and you also need to remove the screw on the right.

Pull out the DVD drive.
It is using an HL-DT-ST GU90N DVD Burner.

Pry up the palm rest.

When the palm rest is removed, you can get access to the keyboard and touchpad.
Now, you can remove the keyboard and replace it with a new keyboard.

Touchpad

In the next step, I will remove the hard drive and motherboard.

Disconnect the white cable from the motherboard.
Remove three screws securing the hard drive module.
Disconnect the SATA cable from the motherboard. You can remove the hard drive module.