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In this guide I’ll be removing and replacing the LCD screen and removing the inverter board from a HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.
As you see on the picture above I’m fixing a HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptop with a bad LCD screen. The lower part of the screen displays garbled image and the upper part works just fine. An external monitor displays image properly. So it’s bad screen and it has to be replaced.
By the way, you’ll find another disassembly guide for the same laptop in my previous post.
STEP 1.
There are six rubber screw covers on the LCD screen bezel. You’ll have to remove all covers.
You can remove covers with a sharp object.
STEP 2.
Remove six screws found under the rubber covers.
STEP 3.
Insert fingers between the screen bezel and display cover and start separating them.
Continue removing the bezel. Be careful, the bezel made of fragile plastic.
The screen bezel has been removed.
STEP 4.
Now you can get an access to the screen inverter which is mounted below the screen.
Remove one screw securing the inverter board. Disconnect cables on both sides of the inverter board.
The inverter board has been removed.
STEP 5.
Remove two screws securing each display hinge/bracket.
STEP 6.
Now you can get an access to the back side of the LCD screen. Remove clear tape covering the connector and disconnect the screen cable from the LCD screen. Simply unplug the cable from the connector.
STEP 7.
Remove two screws from each side of the screen. These screws securing the display hinges/brackets to the screen.
STEP 8.
Now you can remove the defective LCD screen and replace it with a new one. You can find a new LCD screen for HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop here for less than $80.
The LCD screen has been removed.
The following part numbers for HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptops could be helpful to you. I found them in the official maintenance and service guide.
15.4-inch, WXGA, SVA display panel with BrightView (Glossy) 431386-001
15.4-inch, WXGA, SVA display panel AntiGlare (Matte) 431387-001
LCD screen inverter 431391-001
UPDATE: In one of the next guides I explain how to completely disassemble HP Pavilion dv6500, dv6600, dv6700, dv6800 notebooks. It should be similar for HP Pavilion dv6000.
If your laptop has no video at all, it could be the video chip failure. Take a look at this video tutorial explaining how to fix failed video chip.
September 18th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I posted last week sept 14th. My screen had a pink hue, with off colors, and loss of contrast. Right after I posted I remebered it looked like an old passive lcd display. I tried to find a loose wire hoping it was that as I had just last month changed the keyboard. My fooling around then made the display show up in 4 quadrants on the screen.
A replacement screen finally arrived. I bought from a decent site and the display looks really nice. But the diplay they sold me wasnt identical. The metal frame with screws toward the middle of the screen was missing so 4 less screws to hold the display in place. Basically just the side joints are holding it together. It seems fine and I didn’t want bother with sending it back. Plus I don’t believe they would have refunded my money. HP service manual and all these comment really helped me go through all the probable issues with my display. Thanks. I really like how HP puts all its service manuals up for people to dl. I really think that is amazing. Some even list newer CPU’s that you can put in your PC. Nice. If you don’t have to speak to their bad service associates.
September 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I have an HP DV6324US (not under warranty) and the left side of the LCD screen is much dimmer than the right side. It used to do this occasionally and now is the norm. Is this an LCD screen problem, inverter problem, or what?? Any help would be appreciated.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I have a HP DV6205us it has intel 945g on-board graphics. It looks fine on an external monitor. Has a pink hue to it on lcd with loss of contrast. Doesn’t seem to display green. Took keyboard and front speaker panel off to remove video cable and reassemble. I took it apart reassembled it hoping it was a loose cable, nothing still screwy. Disassembled. Waited a day moved it downstairs. Reassembled the display shows 4 different B&W identical in quarters of the screen. External display fine. Have I badly screwed something else up, the main cable that goes from the screen to the motherboard (under speaker panels)? Main display cable seems pretty well taped and shielded. Or is the screen deteriorating further started getting bad 3 days ago. Screen still is bright just loosing all the colors, and this quadrant thing now. Does anyone know the part number for the large cable that attaches to the mainboard, inverter, and screen. Just in case I have done something to it, new lcd is coming.
September 13th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Thankyou so much!!! WE almost threw away our dv6000 because BESTBUY guy said it would cost more then a new laptop to repair the LCD screen!! OMG!
Im ordering the screen and with your awesome instructions I can replace it! THANKYOU THANKYOU
Monica
September 12th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
product hp dv6000
issue lcd shows white solid color lights upon boot .
No issue with VGA signal on external monitor. Reseating video cable on both ends (lcd and systemBoard) to no avail. Then I plugged both lcd , inverter , and video cable to another working dv6000 and worked like a charm. If it’s video chip issue then I would have no signal on external monitor….right .Any idea? Thanks for your help
September 10th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
tsa,
You’ll have to take apart both display panels and take a closer look on the back of LCD screens. If both screens have the same type of the connector, most likely you can swap them.
I cannot tell for sure but you can try.
September 10th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
HPLCD,
Can you still see a very faint image when the screen turns black? If yes, try replacing the inverter board first. You have a good chance to fix the problem.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:41 am
My HP DV6383 LCD is also flickering, but i can see from the background that windows is loading, i can also access the internet, however, slowly flickering is turning to black . i didnt try yet to connect to external monitor. PLEASE HELP.
September 9th, 2009 at 3:08 am
no, i just mean the inside screen. not the cover with bezel etc.
September 8th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
tsa,
Are you talking about the entire display panel?
You cannot do that. dv6000 and hp530 are two different models.