HP Presario CQ40 'top cover' - not having luck sourcing it

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Trying to fix up a laptop as the left button of the track pad is broken. The HP guide I found here: http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01531211.pdf

This gives part number: Top cover (includes TouchPad and cable) 487300-001

I’m aware this is a pretty old laptop I guess, but it runs well enough. It has a T4200 2GHz, 2GB RAM (DDR2, checking if I can get more working) and a W10 (Home) license, screen is 1280*800 so good enough for some basic work.

My idea is to basically clean it up and see how well I can recover it.

The key issue is the top cover, everything is just in need of a darn good clean. I’m based out of Ecuador and although the keyboard is Spanish (it was purchased in Colombia), the rest looks like any old CQ40.

I looked at a few sites and so far, I’ve not been able to find a place to buy the cover. It appears the part number is not valid on the HP site, even though it is in the PDF I linked (which in itself IS on the HP side).

If you can recommend/link me to a place that sells this part? I don’t mind if it is a second hand part, as long as it is usable and not scratched to …

Thanks in advance for any recommendation you might have, once it is in a good state I can then hand it to someone here who can’t afford a laptop.

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http://www.mrsparepartsonline.com/palmrests-and-touchpads/hp-pavilion-dv4-1000-dv4-1100-palmrest-top-cover-touchpad-518783-001/ - looks like that's the one :)

Hunting for this for a few hours, post here, and snap found it lol

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I'm not sure that's the same one, unless the pictures are wrong in the manual?

The first laptop I got was an HP G70-105EA, and I think it's more of a similar design to what you're looking for.

Maybe G40 or something? I'm not sure how their naming convention went.

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Not sure what shipping would be, but here is one on Ebay from the USA.

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Thanks Anthony, genuinely appreciate it. I haven't used ebay here in Ecuador, used to be in the UK and there is was a lot easier to sort problems. Luckily, I may be able to get one of my team members to purchase this for me and bring it along to the customer's site.

Awesome :)

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I also managed to do some RAM recovery / swapping to bring a few old laptops and EEE atom-based laptops up to 2-3GB RAM instead of 512MB (!!). Combined with a cheapo SDD (repurposed from when a 120GB SSD was an amazing size & pretty expensive, I had a few small drives stuck in a drawer), W7 or higher flies. All good fun

Thanks again :)