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HP Pavilion 15 guide feedback request

Since I had some time to open this machine up, I figured I'd make a few guides to show how to replace some of the major parts. Part of this is because of the design being so bad for service, since you practically have to do a full teardown to replace a lot of the components. I haven't gotten to the RAM yet, since that's a motherboard removal job and I don't want to go that far yet. However, access to the components I did guides for were easily accessed when I went to clean the fan. I have a feeling HP hired the engineer behind the Dell N5010/N5110 with that hard drive layout, since that system is just as bad with the majority of the parts you will have to replace.

Right now, I have the following guides done:

Update

I have made the following changes:

  • Some minor rewording of text
  • Step 9 and 10 are combined
  • I have since discovered the repair problems are a P series problem. A new Device page has been issued reflecting this.
  • Added a note reflecting the daughterboard can be removed if it gets annoying
  • Added additional markers in the palmrest guide to reflect the missing screws in this machine.
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Hi Nick! I read through the hard drive guide since that one has the most content. It looks pretty great to me! Your instructions are clear, and the writing is crisp and even correctly punctuated. I love that you used prereqs to stack the guides together—very nice. And I see lots of nice details, like color-matched markup. Overall, awesome guides!

Quick question: is there a reason behind instructing people to put the laptop into hibernation, instead of powering it down completely? I have to admit that one left me scratching my head a little.

Oh, one friendly suggestion on Step 11: I like the detailed explanation of how to physically disconnect the hard drive cable (third bullet). It'd be great if you could do the same for the flex cable on the first bullet—a lot of first-timers screw up an otherwise perfect repair because they're not sure how to disconnect some cable or other, and they guess wrong. If you can help them figure it out, they'll have a higher chance of success.

Cheers Nick!

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Win8 seems to sleep differently then 7. On my Windows 7 machines it saves the contents to RAM unless I change it, so I need to instruct differently for W7 then I have to with Win 8 since I have to assume defaults because it isn't changed most of the time. It seems like hibernation is just as good as shutting down the system in Win8, so I'm content to go with hibernation because of how it's handled. Shutting it down works, but W8's hibernation is just as good.

It's weird unless you know that, so I get why you're asking. I probably need to explain that users who don't keep the W8 hibernation settings need to hibernate the system manually.

I have adjusted this by saying that it's going to need to be done manually if altered or shut down for a major procedure.

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Nick will be eternally grateful.