HP dv8000t Keyboard Checkup Guide!

With all the issues around the world with messed up Keyboards on the dv8000t I think a few brief notes on how to check your keyboard connections can come in handy.

Recently I disassembled my entire dv8000t to see if a CPU upgrade is possible, find the info here

While taking apart the Laptop I found how easy it is to get to the keyboard and check the connections to make sure they are 100%.

Steps On how to remove the dv8000t Keyboard

Proceed at your own risk, If you don't know anything about laptops do not proceed.

1.) Remove the following from the Laptop, Hard Drives, Ram, & Battery.

2.) Flip the Lap top over and remove the screws from the corners and insides of the ram, Battery bays. The Big red circles should have a Keyboard icon next to the screw that you will need to remove. 1 is tucked up against the Wireless PCI card, and the other is at the bottom side of the Battery bay.








3.) Once all the screws are removed flip the laptop back over and open the screen lid as far back as it will go.

4.) Carefully use a tool "small flat head screw driver" and pry the plastic cover that buts against the screen. This will be snapped in place right where the hinges are on both sides. Don’t pull to hard but try to carefully pry both sides where the hinge is... it should come up easily.



5.) Now you can slide the keyboard up about 1/8 to 1/4 of and inch up and than lift revealing the 2 cables that connect the keyboard to the Motherboard.


6.) The slots that hold the cables do not pull up use a small flat head screw driver and push the 2 brown/black brackets on each side forward. This will release the cables and allow you to remove the Keyboard from the laptop.




7.) Check the cables for any damages and if all looks good re insert the cables into the brackets and push the brackets back in place insuring a secure connection.

8.) Slide the Keyboard back in place in re-insert the upper Hinge cover and replace all the screws. If you want replace all the items before screwing everything back in for a test to make sure everything is properly connected.

9.) Replace all the screws and hopefully your keyboard issue is fixed.

Hope this helps If you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

this will be helpful thanks so much.

 

Sledge, thanks for taking the time to do this bro, preciate it.

 

If I had my laptop with me at work I would have taken new images

 

/cry
im not advanced enough, hope my doesn't have this problem, but knowing me it probraly will! notebook gods please be kind to me!

 

TBH it isn't hard at all... as long as you can remeber where all the screws go and how to be gentle with something you can't mess up.

 

so pretty much sledge this is just a check up and not a fix. with it is broken what do i do?

 

This is a check to find out if it is broken at the connectors, or to make sure the connectors are connected 100% to the MOBO. If the cables are broken or messed up you need to call HP and send it in for repair so they can give you a new keyboard.

 

anyone with keyboard troubles tried this? did it fix it?

thanks sledge, I hope this'll work.. hopefully the problem is not in the actual key connections or something like that.

 

It is more of a checkup guide... It could fix it or it might not fix it. But for how easy it is I would give it a go.

 

aznron911, just like sledgehammer said, it really is not that difficult.

I didn't know anything about laptop assembly when I torn into my Toshiba laptop last year, but had no problems removing/replacing my CPU, memory, keyboard, hard drive, etc ... it took about 3 hours from start to finish.

I would highly recommend doing the following when disassembling your laptop. Take an 8.5 x 11 piece of typing paper and draw a picture of the bottom and insides of your laptop on it. Then, as you remove the screws TAPE them to their appropriate location on the drawn picture on the typing paper. Draw the inside of the laptop on another piece of typing paper. The keyboard connectors are usually a little unusual looking, but you really can't mess it up ... just work very gently and slowly and all should go well.

 

anyone try this out with a broken keyboard ?

 

I guess no one but me?

 

I'm getting my dv5000 later next week, so if I get this problem I hope to try this out! Thanks

 

Hi thanks alot for this short walk through i realy appreciate it.
i was so stupid to have a cup of coffe standing infront of me and i was talking in the phone and i tiped it right down in my computer and because of your realy great guide we were able to open the pc up and pick the keybord out and clean it thank you.

 

i think we dont need fo that~~ that havent any efficacy. and maybe you will replace wrong screws ~~ that are danger!!!!

 

I did it on my zd8000 and it worked great! But I found on my computer you don't have to remove the screws from the bottom because the keyboard just pops out from the top.

 

Repairing the keyboards of Hewlett-Packard laptops

http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~motl/hp-keyboard/index-classical.html

Problem:
Suddenly it may happen that a group of keys on your Pavilion laptop (the most typical example is "G", "H", "Backspace", "apostrophe", and "F4") becomes intermittently insensitive. In some cases the problem only occurs when the notebook has been turned on for 10 minutes.

Explanation:
The Foxconn keyboard connector is poorly designed. As your computer is being used, it heats up and various materials in the connector expand at different rates. Consequently, the connector is moving. It becomes loose and after two months or so, some contacts are lost. Sometimes the problem can be solved temporarily if we apply mechanical pressure in the center-left region of the bottom side of the laptop.
A thrifty solution - reseating the connector:
Reseating the connector fixes the problem. Sometimes the problem returns after a couple of months; usually it is solved permanently. Don't be afraid to follow these instructions, HP laptop keyboard replacement is not difficult.

 

Sledgehammer and WeAreNotAlone,

About three months ago I bought my DV5000 series (DV5224nr), two days after I bought it I tore it apart and installed a microphone since I do a fair amount of VOIP chatting while at work.. Anyways blabber aside,

A few weeks ago my laptop developed the G, H, Backspace, Apostrophe, and the F4 key fail. Just prior to this I noticed I had to use a bit more force in order to use the keys. Obviously I couldn't send it back to HP since I slightly modified the laptop.

I ran across this thread via a lengthy google search, and decided to go head first into the laptop for the second time.

I wish I could have taken pictures while I was doing this to post up. but it is pretty self explanatory if you are looking inside the laptop.

I pulled the keyboard up and the FFC (Flat Flexible Cable) attached at the motherboard side was the culprit of the non-functional keys due to the explanation described in the post above. I removed the FFC and re-inserted it and tested, the problem continued, a short distance from the connector there was a foam strip holding the FFC above the motherboard, I peeled this off and moved it approximately a half to three quarters of an inch from the connector on the motherboard thus putting slightly more pressure / leverage on the connector, re-assembled the laptop, tested, and TADA!

ghghgh GHGHGH ' ' ' " " "

I have been without this problem for close to three weeks now and it is still working 100%


THANK YOU!

 

When I first got my DV5000 a year ago, it had a problem with a sticky ctrl key. After a few weeks of that, I tried reseating the keyboard after finding the hardware manual for the DV5000 online. That fixed it for about 6 months.

After that, the problem returned with a vengeance and reseating the keyboard was not enough. To make a long story short, I found someone who was selling new keyboards for another HP model that was a perfect match for the DV5000 on EBay. After purchasing it and making the switch, I've had no keyboard problems ever since.

Overall, the disassembly process to get to the keyboard is not as hard as it looks, as long as you keep track of where the screws go and you make sure to handle the connector very carefully.

cycloptic

 

I love my dv8000t. But recently the ctrl, shift, and esc key are physically sticking (in comparison to emotionally or spiritually sticking). I need to send it in for repair but I am scared that it will come back scratched, dented, or otherwise modified. Any tips?

 

Did you update to the newest bios? I did and I havent had any stinking key issues since.

 

It can't be the bios. The keys are physically sticking, as in staying pressed down after I take my finger off. Seems to be a physical defect with the keyboard.

 

I have HP dv8000 laptop, and sometimes keys are stickinggggggggggggggggg (until I press some another key), but NOT physically - the key is returned to its normal position.
Sometimes I see another problem - when I press a key It works only from the second attempt.

May it be a BIOS problem?

 

I have, it completely solved the problem. The smaller of the two cables was not seated properly. The brace/bracket that holds the cable is the culprit. It's a poorly designed keyboard as many have said. As soon as got to the step from Sledgehammer's guide where you can see the cables, there it was, angled and not seated properly. I reseated it and it works fine. Over a month now.

 

I have recieved over 50+ PM's telling me this fix had fixed their keyboard issues... If you are having problems check it out.

 

Hi

I have a DV 8302 tx...I had no keyboard issues till my little daughter emptied a complete tube of toothpaste over my keyboard...I managed to remove the keys but couldnt quite get to fix them back to actually work them properly...So now I am using a USB keyboard..

Next problem: I live in the middle east and i picked up this laptop early this year when I went to Malaysia..The local HP guys here dont want to touch my lappy, so now I have to 2 options, either i send it via courier, which would be very expensive (Repair and return service of DHL etc) or I go to Malysia myself and get it repaired from HP there\

I wish to try the dissassembly for the sole purpose of getting the keyboard part number, but am not sure whether I could purchase it online...Do you think anyone would stock this same keyboard...My Laptop looks exactly like yours (as per the photos)...If some of you could advice me regarding the availibility of the new keyboard maybe I could try to do it myself...Also, if you could tell me the part number...

Thanks in advance to all...

Regards

 

If you call HP in the US they will tell you the part number... might cost long distance but you can find your keyboard that way

 

I tried it out, twice, with tender loving care....no banana. Is it the MB? The connectors/connections? Would a firmware upgrade/driver upgrade fix our new wheel chocks? There are thousands of complaints, but no answers.

Has anyone tried a new replacement keyboard?? New Motherboard??

 

I have a broken bracket which is supposed to hold the smaller keyboard ribbon...does anyone know where I can get this bracket and the correct way to seat it properly to the motherboard