HP/Compaq :: Pavillion Dv9000 Optical Drive
May 10, 2010
when I was replacing my optical drive, I managed to tilt it upside down and several springs fell out. I have no clue where they came from specifically, other than knowing they have something to do with the sliding brackets on the sides.
I've searched frantically for a service manual on my optical drive to fix this problem, but I can't seem to find anything.
The drive in question is:
DVD±RW/R and CD-RW Double-Layer Combo Drive with LightScribe
Part number (from the dv9000 service manual):
432973-001
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May 12, 2010
I know the DV9000 has problems. I've had the laptop for 3.5yrs and at the end of last yr it died on me. I tried to find out the problem and eventually figured it was the overheating and badly manufactured design as so many other people with this laptop found. Even took it in for a fault assessment and they told me that the integrated graphics card was probably fried.
Thing is, the other day I bought a screwdriver set and decided to open up the laptop and take a look around and boot it up again and now I'm having second thoughts.
Firstly, if it was the graphic card that was fried, surely the hdd would still boot into windows? When I turn on the laptop, the screen goes grey / lights up (as it normally did when the laptop was working) but nothing much happens after that. I dont hear the hdd booting up and nothing really happens. All I hear is the fan working and eventually after 20min of nothing happening I just pulled the power cable out.
So I tried taking out the hdd and booting up. Nothing comes up on the display and nothing happens. Even if the hdd is out, should any sort of display come up? like surely the BIOS or even a screen saying "no hdd detected" should come up?
If it is the graphics card that is fried, does that mean that if I plug a secondary monitor into the monitor port on the laptop, it shouldnt display anything should it? or does the extra monitor port on the laptop run through a different circuit system than the main LCD screen on the laptop?
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even before this issue though, the wireless networks window, when you click on the two computers to see the different connections, it always freezes to a white window to begin with and will take up til an hour to actually show the different connections.
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In case noone noticed
Dell India
http://www1.ap.dell.com/in/en/home/n...=dhs&cs=indhs1
Dell Singapore
http://www1.ap.dell.com/sg/en/home/n...=dhs&cs=sgdhs1
Dell Malaysia
http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/prod...hs1&ref=homepg
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