HP EliteBook 8460p Repair

The Elitebook 8460p is a professional business and mobile workstation laptop designed by HP. Built and first released in August of 2008, the computer is over 10 years old. However, its ability to be easily fixed, upgraded, and maintained make it a great laptop to work with and experiment with.

HP’s Elitebook line of laptops are laptops designed to meet military specifications. Specifically, to operate under extreme conditions such as altitude, temperature, humidity, dust, and vibrations. The chassis were designed and built using plastic, magnesium alloy, and aluminum.

The 4th generation of Elitebooks included the 8640p which was designed to have a more boxy shape than previous generations and used less plastic in the construction. The 8460p was promoted as having 32 hours of battery life using a high capacity internal battery.

The Elitebook 8460p can be identified by S/N: CNU20937TQ. Confirm the model number via labeling on the underside of the device.

CPU: Intel Core i5 2520M

Chipset: Intel QM67

Operating System: Windows 7 Professional

RAM: 8 GB DDR3 Expandable to: 16 GB

Hard Drive Size: 320 GB

Display Size: 14-inch (AU Optitronics AUO313C Panel)

Native Resolution: 1366p x 768p

Optical Drive: Yes

Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6470M 1GB GDDR3

Battery: 6-cell 62Wh Battery

I/O Ports: 4-pin FireWire; SD/MMC Reader; Express Card/54; Optical Drive; Headphone Jack; Microphone Jack; eSATA/USB 2.0; USB 2.0 (charging); USB 3.0 x2; DisplayPort; VGA; Modem Jack; Ethernet

Size: 13.31 x 9.1 1x 1.25 inches

Weight: 4.95 lbs

HP Support Website for the HP Elitebook 8460p

Product Review Published by PC Mag

Product Review Published by Laptop Mag

Scroll up to the Documents section of this page to view an official repair guide/troubleshooting published by HP for the HP Elitebook 8460p (also located here)