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In this guide I will disassemble a HP Pavilion g6 laptop.
In this particular case I’m taking apart a HP Pavilion g6-1c55nr but the guide should fit all models in Pavilion g6 line.
This guide explains hot to disassemble laptop base. In the next guide I’ll explain how to remove and replace the screen.
STEP 1.
As always start laptop disassembly with removing the battery.
STEP 2.
Remove two screws securing the bottom cover.
Lift up and remove the cover.
STEP 3.
Under the bottom cover you’ll find the following components:
- hard drive.
- memory modules (in my case I have only one 4GB module installed).
- wireless card.
- CMOS battery (standard 3V battery).
STEP 4.
Slide the hard drive to the left and disconnect it from the motherboard.
Lift up and remove the hard drive.
HP Pavilion g6 laptop uses a regular 2.5″ SATA hard drive.
STEP 5.
Remove the memory module.
HP Pavilion g6 laptop uses DDR3 memory
STEP 6.
Remove one screw securing the optical drive (DVD drive).
Pull DVD drive from the laptop and remove it.
STEP 7.
Remove one screw securing the keyboard on the bottom of the laptop.
This screw located close to the wireless card.
STEP 8.
The keyboard secured by five spring loaded latches on the top.
It could be tricky to release those latches. I’ll try my best to explain the process.
Using a small flat head screwdriver push the latch inside the case. At the same time lift up the keyboard a little bit.
When the keyboard lifted up it doesn’t allow the latch to lock again.
Do the same with all remaining latches.
STEP 9.
After all five latches release, you should be able to lift up the top side of the keyboard.
STEP 10.
Turn the keyboard upside down and access the connector.
You’ll have to unlock the connector in order to release the keyboard cable.
STEP 11.
On the following picture the keyboard connector shown in the locked position.
Carefully lift up the left side of the brown locking clip. It will open up at a 90 degree angle.
STEP 12.
After the connector unlocked, you can pull the keyboard cable.
STEP 13.
Remove the keyboard.
New keyboard for HP Pavilion g6 laptop available here.
STEP 14.
Remove all screws from the bottom of the laptop.
One screw (yellow circle) hidden under the rubber plug.
You can remove the plug with a sharp object and after that remove the screw.
STEP 15.
Remove six screws securing the top cover assembly.
Disconnect the power button cable and touchpad cable.
STEP 16.
You unlock both connectors the same way you unlocked the keyboard connector.
Lift up the left side of the white locking tab. The tap will open up at a 90 degree angle.
STEP 17.
Pull cable from the connector.
STEP 18.
Now you can start separating the top cover assembly from the laptop base.
Insert a piece of soft plastic (I’m using the guitar pick) between the top cover and base and move it along the side.
Continue removing the cover with your fingers.
STEP 19.
Remove the top cover assembly.
Under the top cover you can access the following components:
- cooling fan (mounted on the bottom side of the motherboard). In order to access the fan it’s necessary to remove the motherboard.
- laptop speakers mounted on the bottom.
- power jack which is attached to the power cable. If the power jack failed, you simply unplug the old one from the motherboard and plug in a new one.
- USB board.
- optical drive connector.
- motherboard.
February 1st, 2012 at 10:50 pm
Thanks for the help with the disassembly! Great guide! It’s actually my mother’s laptop and it’s a Pavilion G4, rather than a G6 so there was the odd difference but mostly the same.
Question is: Does ANYONE know ANYTHING regarding coffee damage? My mother spilt a bunch of coffee on the laptop a few days ago and she asked me to look at it. There appears to be quite a bit of coffee stain/damage on the casing of the laptop (mainly noticeable due to discolored metal) There seems to be a bit of coffee came in contact with the hard drive and a tiny bit on the cd drive. But nothing that would seem to harm it as it’s just a bit (so it seems) on the casing of either part.
The problem is that the computer will NOT start. AT ALL. The power cord when plugged in indicates an orange light which im assuming means it’s CHARGING, or that there’s a problem… one or the other! Nothing boots up at all it simply does NOTHING. My thought was the motherboard but at first glace it appears very very little to absolutely no coffee actually touched the motherboard…
My question is… any idea what might be damaged to cause the laptop to not even turn ON?
February 1st, 2012 at 10:29 pm
i have the hp G4 and this helped me a lot, thanks for the tuto.
January 17th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
@ Haley,
I think that’s a long shot.
If the laptop freezes at HP logo, anything could be wrong: hard drive, memory, motherboard, etc…
Here’s something to try before you disassemble the laptop completely.
1. Try starting the laptop without hard drive.
2. Try removing memory modules one by one and start the laptop with only one module in place.
Can you bypass HP screen after that?
By the way, if you look at the last picture you’ll see that the card reader integrated into the motherboard. There are no cables. You cannot disconnect it from the motherboard.
Are they talking about the same laptop model as in this guide?
January 17th, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Thanks for the tutorial. Quick question, though– my computer keeps freezing on the HP start up screen, and in the HP tech support forums, it said to disassemble the laptop and “disconnect the front-panel memory card reader cable at the card reader itself– NOT the end that connects to the motherboard header” in order to fix this issue. That big ‘NOT’ scares the crap out of me, so I wanna make sure that I actually know what a memory card reader is before I go in there and start pulling stuff apart. Could you help me?
January 12th, 2012 at 3:02 pm
@ john,
That’s the one right above the comment area.
What are you trying to achieve?
January 12th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
You mentioned that you have a “HP Pavilion g6 base disassembly guide” but I could not find it on your website. Where is it? Thanks
January 8th, 2012 at 10:44 am
@ strikee,
Probably you pushed them too far. Try to fish them out with a needle.
January 6th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
the spring latches that keeps the keyboard in got a bit messed up after pressing them in, the latches won’t lock in. help?
December 28th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
@ TechnoTech,
The keyboard key? Isn’t is just a regular keyboard key with the key cap and hinges?
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2007/03/20/key-fell-off-keyboard/
December 28th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Can you show me how to fix a broken key, whith this same model?