Laptop Motherboard Replacement & Repair

Anyone lucky enough to own a HP Pavilion dv7 series laptop knows how beautiful this machine is. What you may not know is the laptop motherboard part number in case something ever happens. I’m talking about 486542-001 and sometimes referred to as part #: 71CQ0132002. HP show’s these laptop motherboards to be “System board (Motherboard) [...]

Besides the HP dv6000 series being the most popular model of Pavilion laptops, it also is the most confusing model when trying to replace it’s laptop motherboard. Most recently I just finished putting back together a dv6500 after replacing the notebook systemboard. We used part number 460900-001 since that was the PC main board currently [...]