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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 26th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Hello!
I have dv6000 model(dv6216ea) and it shows some strange symptoms found nowhere else.
LCD screen on left side sometimes gets reddish spots (not pixels but areas of pixels where colors are blended with red) while the other part of the screen is normal. Now when I turn the LCD brightness to full power, laptop begins to produce strange noises and after a while backlight turns off. I can see what’s happening on the screen but it’s indeed very dark. If I reboot everything is normal.
If I repeat the same test with brightness as above but powered by batteries everything works even better (intensity of white color is much better than when not on batteries) no noises, no backlight shutoffs.
What could be the problem here?
Should I replace inverter and/or LCD screen?
March 25th, 2009 at 9:38 am
I have a HP Pavilion DV2419 with some problem with display. For the last month, it occurred 3 times that the screen reacted very slowly. It gradually light from the brink to the center(this process takes about 1-2min).After that, the screen is still dim and messy. For those last 3 times, it went back to normal after turning on for about 10minutes, but would appear again if I turn off the monitor and turn it on again(like the power setting in Windows, sleeping mode or restart laptop).
These days, the problem just can go away. From the moment I turned it on(even in BIOS it is the same), it would not go back to normal even after 15minutes. But it works fine with external monitor.
I am wondering whether this is a problem with the inverter or LCD. Would changing the LCD fix this problem? I am in tight budget so I want to pinpoint the problem and fix it as cheap as possible.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
March 24th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Jaanus,
Apparently, the cracked screen is not the only problem in the laptop.
Is it completely dead or the laptop gets power but will not turn on? Did you try reseating memory modules, removing modules one by one?
March 24th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Hey i have a hp pavilion dv6000 with a cracked screen and it displays nothing. I can’t get an external display working either. I’ve tried the fn + f4 but no use. Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks.
March 24th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Thanks i am gonna try that today
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Jeno,
Could be bad connection between the LCD cable and motherboard. Make sure the video cable is connected properly.
Did you have a chance to test your laptop with an external monitor? Do you know if external video work properly?
This problem is not related to the inverter. You still can see a bright image, so the inverter board works properly.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I have a dv9000, everything was fine before replacing the back and front vessel covers and the hinges. As you guys alreay know they suck. Ok after replacinf all this my pc looks new, but my screen has now a bunch of horizontal lines and flashes back and forth. when i move the mouse i can see the changes on the screen but its all wide and small white lines across the screen. an that be the inverter, or any other thing i touch or messed up while fixing i???? please help. thanks very much.. BE SAFE!!
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Gaurav Yadav,
Sounds like a problem with the screen and unfortunately you cannot fix it. You’ll have to replace the screen with a new one.
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Irene,
You say the screen went very dark and at the same time the backlight works. What do you mean the backlight works? Can you increase or decrease the screen brightness using the keyboard shortcut: Fn+F7 or Fn+F8 keys?
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:55 pm
sagar,
Sounds like a software related problem. Try reinstalling factory defaults from the recovery disk. Warning! This procedure will erase everything from the hard drive.
Also could be software related problem.
Here’s how you can back up your data. Purchase an external USB enclosure, remove the hard drive and install it into the enclosure. Now connect that enclosure to another working computer and your hard drive will pop up in My Computer. Access it and back up data.