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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.
March 21st, 2009 at 3:37 am
I have a HP Compaq laptop having vertical straight color lines at different places on screen. The lines start appearing after my laptop got mishandled and slip on floor and keep on increasing day by day. Now it has 10 lines all over the screen. Can it be repairable or screen need to be replaced.
March 20th, 2009 at 7:10 am
I have the dv6000 and the screen went very dark, but icons and background are visible, just dark and sort of like a negative but colors are off. I replaced the inverter – no luck. Backlight works and external monitor works. Is screen replacement the next option? lcd cable appears to be fine, but should I purchase a new one just in case?
March 19th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I want to personally thank you for this tutorial. I had some problems with my old screen with these weird horizontal lines. I was going to take my laptop to Geek Squad, but they quoted me $600. I found a screen for a HP Pavillion dv8000 on eBay for around $80. Although it is not the exact same model, your directions were so simple I was able to figure it out on the dv8000. Now everything is working perfectly again. Thank you again for this tutorial.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:15 am
I have problem with my Dell inspiron 510 .Applications like internet explorer and others are not woking giving application error the memory can not be read ok to debug the program and cancel .
After this problem ,Cd drive ,USB drive are also not working .I have another laptop but not able to transfer the data from this laptop to the new one .
Could you please help to resolve this issue or tell me the I transfer the data to the new laptop .
one of my friend told me it could be memory slot problem but there is no problem in booting the system and it is showing the correct memory configured in the system .
Thanks in Advanse
Regards
March 15th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
KJ,
You can find a new screen for that laptop around $120. Replace it yourself and save $380.
Hopefully it works for you.
March 13th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I have an HP dv9500t and I’m regretting the purchase. The screen has gone south on me twice now and the first time was right out of the box. This time HP is telling me to eat it because it will be $500+ etc… I’m taking the thing apart using this link as my guide. If it breaks I’m buying a Mac… #^@@$-off HP!
March 7th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Susan,
In order to narrow down the problem you’ll have to test the laptop with an external monitor.
If you have the same problem with images on both screens, the internal LCD and external monitor, your problem could be related to the motherboard/video card.
If flashing lines appear only on the laptop LCD screen but the external video works properly, the problem could be related to:
1. Loose video cable and reconnecting the cable might help.
2. Bad video cable.
3. Bad LCD screen.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Fahad,
First of all, you’ll have to test the laptop with an external monitor attached to the VGA port on your laptop. Have you done that? Do you know if the external video works fine even though the internal screen is not working properly?
March 7th, 2009 at 8:12 am
I have a pavilion dv5020us notebook that just started flashing lines across the screen. It’s almost like the connection is loose or someting…It’s horizontal – they lines vary and they flash like a strobe kind of. Do I need to replace something, or do i have to get a new laptop? I’ve had it three years. Thanks so much.
March 5th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Hello,
i have a hp dv2000 and one of the two things that connect the laptop screen to the main keyboard has been broken.. I’m talking about the thing rite next to the two screws securing the hinge/bracket. ok so from one side the laptop is coming off and its been like this from last one week, i was goin to take it for repair but just yestarday i noticed that the screen has stopped working properly. The laptop works fine but i have to hold the screen and press it at a certain position for it to work.. if i just leave the screen as it is the screen hangs..
So now, i dont have any clue what might be the problem and what really has to be done to it to be fixed but i think its something minor? What do u think? I dont want to be ripped off by those repair shops.. i dont mind taking it for repair but i would like to know what might be the problem so that they dont charge me extra money.. Please let me know what i should do.. Thank you for all your help in advance