HP Pavilion 15-ca2073cl Display-Pad Replacement

Written By: Montray Robinson

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HP Pavilion 15-ca2073cl Display-Pad Replacement

Difficulty

Moderate

Steps

Time Required

10 minutes

Introduction

For this guide, you will be instructed on how to replace the display-pad on the HP Pavilion 15-ca2073cl. Before progression, be sure that the battery is off and the back cover is off as well.

Tools

Step 1

Before beginning, make sure the laptop is completely turned off by pressing the off button and waiting for the screen to turn black.
Flip the laptop over.
Remove all the 6.5mm screws (black) and the 4.8mm long screws (silver) using the Phillips #00 screwdriver.

Step 2

Use an iFixit opening tool to wedge in between the case and the body of the laptop.
Start from the front and work down both sides, disconnecting clips.
Remove the bottom case from the body.

If the cover is stuck, work the opposite side completly loose and the opposite side from the back. Then use you fingers to pry loose the stuck part from both sides of the stuck part.

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Step 3

Remove six 4.8mm screws (silver) using the Phillips #00 screwdriver.

The center screw of the side with 3 screws is not attached to the battery and should be left in place.

Chuck McCracken -

The mounting screws online are different than those in my computer. Look for those attached to the black plastic tabs sticking out at the edges of the battery. Not all of them contain screws. If a screw is on one of the metal connections exclusively and not on the black plastic of the battery, it is not a screw that you touch. It's one that holds down metal shields or structural elements of the laptop. Two of the screws shown in the picture are either not part of the battery or were different in mine. For example, if you look carefully in the picture of the battery connections with the circles around them in this article, the center of the three on the far right narrow side is actually not connected to the battery at all. Look carefully.

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Step 4

Open the laptop like you normally would if you were about to use it and use a plastic spudger to separate the top cover from the bottom.
While lifting the top cover, undo the clip holding the keyboard cable in place and pull the cable out.