HP Envy 17t Touch Best Value Y7C72AV_1 SSD & Battery Question

[wonderrx]

Just recieved my black friday HP Envy 17t Touch Best Value Laptop  Y7C72AV_1 (model when I ordered) or Y0F94AV (software indicated in laptop).

It is replacing my 17in Envy TouchSmart M7 E0K83UAR#ABA that has a defective right hinge (grrr)

QUESTION 1:

I have read the service manual and see that battery should be replaceable, all be it with taking the cover off. However I can't currently find a battery on HP's website or internet with their part number.  3-cell, 61-WHr, 5.36-WHr, Li-ion 849315-856. Anyone find one so far?

QUESTION 2:

I have read that there are a few different mother boards so I am going to crack this one open and see if I can add a second hard drive beyond the m.2 SSD in it.

Looks like I have to take off the U shaped rubber bumper on the bottom, that there are screws underneath that. Will I be able to get that to go back on? Any suggestions how to take it off and put it back on? Would be a bummer to mess up a part on a brand new laptop.

Thanks in advance for any help. I couldn't find any YouTube videos for taking apart this model yet, welcome any links.

[banhien]

Hi,

Welcome to HP support forum. From product number you provided it is an HP ENVY NOTEBOOK 17T-U000 CTO     

       http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=Y0F94AV

Answer 1: Part number 849315-856 is not for your machine, it is only for 1 machine (very rare ? )

            http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=849315-856

    The store may not update properly. The manual shows this series can use

     3-cell, 61-WHr, 5.36-WHr, Li-ion part # 849315-856
     3-cell, 41-WHr, 3.63-WHr, Li-ion part # 849314-856

Answer 2: That why this work is for HP authorized repairers only. You can buy rubber kit from the HP part store:

          http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?SearchText=Y0F94AV

  More information:

    http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-envy-17-u000-notebook-pc/10862141/manuals

Regards.

[wonderrx]

Thank you for your help with the model number, it's probably listed, but inside the case! No model info anywhere else.

[banhien]

Hi,

As you can see, it is a CTO (Configure To Order) machine therefore finding it could be very hard.

Regards.

[wonderrx]

Thanks for the information about the Configure to Order, I only upped the battery size.

How do you find/determine the family the laptop is from? Appreciate you doing that for me.

The self contained battery is my concern, I want to make sure I can replace it once it has some age on it.

Does anyone know if there are screws under that rubber footer? The service manual says yes. I really would like to pop the bottom off to assure myself I can replace the battery, plus to find out if I can put a larger second hard drive in it.

Still would like suggestions on how to take the rubber footer off the bottom and then reattach it. Thanks!

[ramezamgad]

I have disassembled the laptop and I can confirm that there are no possibility of combining a SSD with a HDD

Also the battery is replaceable just disassemble the bottom cover and 4 more screws and its out.

Kudos if this helped you

[wonderrx]

Thanks so much!! Appreciate you confirming that you can remove the battery!

Can you post links to where I can see the pictures full size?

It sure looks like a hard drive could go under that ribbon cable you have close up in the second picture.

Were there screws underneath the rubber U shaped feet on the bottom of the laptop that you had to remove? I assume that ruined the U shaped rubber foot then to where you couldn't put it back on?

Again THANKS SO MUCH!

[ramezamgad]

http://imgur.com/a/tSvAk

Here you go

The rubber feet had a double sided adhesive and came back on without any hassle, the hdd port is not there so there is no way to add a hdd and a ssd, each has a certain motherboard.

[wonderrx]

Thanks again so much! Bummer about there being no hard drive connector there for a second hard drive!

Awesome to see how easy to remove the SSD would be to add a larger hard drive there as they get cheaper.