

The speakers in the dm4 suck, they barely produce any audible output. Just finished the LCD screen replacement guide for HP Pavilion dm4 laptop.

I plan to finish and upload the guide tonight or tomorrow. However I also have a crakced lcd and cant find the other artice you said you’d write, if it’s not up do you think you could do one, and if there is one alreadypoint me in the right direction? The LCD replacement guide hasn’t been published yet. IML Tech Decem| Dorian, This is exactly what i was looking for, thanks so much.

However I also have a crakced lcd and cant find the other artice you said you’d write, if it’s not up do you think you could do one, and if there is one alreadypoint me in the right direction? thanks a lot for this. Thank you! 158 Responses Dorian Decem| This is exactly what i was looking for, thanks so much. If you appreciate my work and find this information useful, please support this site. You can support this site.Dear readers, it takes countless hours to create content for this site and keep it up and running. The jack is attached to a power harness.If the DC power jack goes bad you simply unplug it from the motherboard and replace with a new DC jack. Use same technique as in the step 12.STEP 16.Carefully separate the top cover from the laptop base.Continue removing cover with your fingers.STEP 17.The top cover has been removed.Here’s the opposite side of the top cover.Here you can access and remove (if needed) the finger scanner and power button board.STEP 18.Disconnect display video cable from the motherboard.Pull both wireless antenna cables through the hole in the bottom cover.STEP 19.Remove four screws securing display hinges.STEP 20.Now you can separate the display panel from the base.The display panel is ready for the LCD screen replacement.Here’s the laptop base with the display panel removed.In a HP Pavilion dm4 laptop the DC power jack is not soldered to the motherboard. Do not separate the locking tab from the white base.On the following picture the keyboard connector shown in the unlocked position.STEP 13.Now you can pull keyboard cable from the connector and remove the keyboard.STEP 14.Remove all screws from the bottom of the laptop.There are two screws hidden under base feet (green circles).Remove the rubber foot with a sharp object and remove the screw.STEP 15.Remove four screws securing the top cover.Disconnect three cables.

🙂STEP 9.Continue separating the keyboard from the top cover.STEP 10.Finally, lift up the top side of the keyboard and flip it upside down on the palm rest.STEP 11.Now you can access the keyboard cable and disconnect it from the motherboard.STEP 12.The keyboard connector opens up as it shown on the picture below.Carefully open the brown tab at a 90 degree angle. I’m using a thin plastic tool for that.After the keyboard separates from the top cover you can continue removing it with your fingers.To make it more complicated, HP glued the keyboard to the top cover with double sticky tape. There is no way you can do it from the top without damaging the keyboard.Here’s how I did it.In the DVD drive compartment there is a hole and you can use it for removing the keyboard.Very carefully push the keyboard through the hole in the DVD drive compartment. Remove the cover.STEP 3.When all covers removed you’ll be able to access both memory modules, hard drive, CMOS battery and wireless card.For the purpose of my guide it’s not necessary to remove memory modules, wireless card and CMOS battery.STEP 4.Disconnect hard drive cable from the motherboard.Remove the hard drive assembly.STEP 5.Carefully disconnect both antenna cables from the wireless card.Again, we’ll leave the wireless card connected to the motherboard.STEP 6.Remove one screw securing the DVD drive.Slide DVD drive to the left and remove it.STEP 7.Remove two screws securing the keyboard.STEP 8.It’s very tricky removing the keyboard from a HP Pavilion dm4 laptop.
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Unfortunately, in order to replace it in an HP Pavilion dm4, it’s necessary to remove the display panel first.I’ll split disassembly instructions in two posts.In this post I explain how to remove the display panel and in the next one I’ll explain how to replace the screen.Before you start make sure the computer is turned off and battery removed.STEP 1.Remove two screws securing the memory cover in battery compartment.STEP 2.Slide and remove the memory cover.Remove two screws securing the hard drive cover. Compaq & HP | 158 In this guide I explain how to disassemble a HP Pavilion dm4 laptop.I’m doing this disassembly in order to replace damaged screen.
