9.13 – Anyone who has worked on a laptop before knows that there’s not a lot of room for error within the machines and that forces parts within reach after tons of screws have been removed. In the case of my new -ish HP Pavilion zv6000, a RAM memory upgrade that I expected to be simple provided quite a challenge! Click the image below for a HUGE version.
RadioShack and BrandSmart along with some other retail stores offered a deal that was too good to pass up. A laptop, printer and digital camera were bundled together for about $1,200.00. After recommending this a few times, I finally went for it. Best twelve hundred I ever spent (I’m typing that on the machine this very moment). Under powered, however with only 512MB RAM (maximum of 2GB).
“No problem to just go in through a few access hatches and install more RAM,” I thought. Two hours, twenty-seven screws and several bad words later, I discovered nothing but dead ends. Incredible. Internet research revealed a half-dozen other folks stumbling over the same confusion. The zv6000 takes two sticks of RAM but in two different spots. It’s the second spot that gets you!
As a public service to everyone else enjoying the baby workhorse that is HP’s Pavilion zv6000 models, we present an enhanced diagram right out of HP’s Manual. Keyboard removals beg cleanliness and organization of you.
Find the hard-to-find HP Pavilion zv6000 manual here in PDF.
If the link isn’t working one day, we’ve copied the manual here
One free PDF reader we love over Adobe’s Acrobat is Foxit which we have Setup v2.2 of here as an Executable – save it then run it.
UPDATE 30OCT07 – The zv6000 shipped with AMD Turion 64 Mobile MT-34 processors – the wrong RAM may result in sluggish performace due to mismatched speeds. So, even more helpful than ever, here’s what you need to know:
So, speifically, we can max out at 2GB of memory best of all if it’s PC2700 DDR-SDRAM Dual In-line Memory Module or DIMM. Proper prices for different MB of this memory type are $20 for 256 MB (why bother?), $40 for 512 MB and $80 for 1,024 MB or a Gig. These are not retail prices and don’t include shipping when ordered online. Your HP Pavilion zv6000 memory type would be twice as much retail and about 30 to 40% higher if you order through your friendly computer tech. 28NOV07 SOLVED!
