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In this guide I explain how to take apart a HP Pavilion dv6000 series laptop. I’ll be removing memory, hard drive, wireless card, CD/DVD optical drive and keyboard. Please use this guide at your own risk and only if your laptop is out of warranty.
In the next post I’ll be removing the LCD screen and inverter board.
STEP 1.
Turn off the laptop, unplug the AC/DC power adapt and remove the battery.
Remove screws from the memory and hard drive covers. Remove both covers.
STEP 2.
Lift up the right side of the hard drive and disconnect it from the motherboard. Remove the hard drive.
STEP 3.
Remove one screw securing the CD/DVD optical drive. Pull the drive to the left and remove it from the laptop.
STEP 4.
In order to remove the memory module, spread latches on both sides from the memory module. The memory card will pop up at a 20-30 degree angle. Carefully pull the memory module from the slot by the edges. Remove both modules.
There are two wires connected to the wireless card (Wi-Fi card). These wires are antennas. In order to disconnect the antenna cable from the card, grab the gold connector with our finger tips and unsnap it from the card.
Remove two screws securing the wireless card. Pull the wireless card from the slot.
STEP 5.
Now I’m going to remove the keyboard.
Remove three screws securing the keyboard bezel, I marked them with red circles.
Remove three screws securing the keyboard, I marked them with green circles.
By the way, if you are replacing the keyboard, you don’t have to remove memory, CD/DVD drive and wireless card. Simply go from the step 1 directly to the step 5.
STEP 6.
Turn the laptop over and start lifting up the bezel. Be careful, do not lift it up to far because there are wires connected to the bezel. You can see these wires on the last picture.
STEP 7.
After you release the bezel, you’ll be able to lift up the keyboard as it shown on the picture below. Leave the bezel attached to the laptop.
STEP 8.
The keyboard is connected to the motherboard via a flat ribbon cable. Before you pull the cable you have to unlock the connector.
STEP 9.
Here’s how to unlock the keyboard connector on the motherboard.
Very carefully move the connector locking tab to the direction shown by two red arrows using your finger nails. Move it abut 2 millimeters, not more. The tab must stay attached to the connector. All you have to do is release the cable.
WARNING! If you destroy the connector, the internal keyboard will not function anymore. You’ll have to either use the laptop with an external keyboard or replace the motherboard. The keyboard connector is permanently soldered to the motherboard.
After the cable has been released, you can pull it from the connector and remove the keyboard. Replace the keyboard with a new one if needed.
Here you can find new replacement parts for your HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop.
On the picture above you can see how the keyboard bezel is attached to the laptop. Be careful when you lifting up the bezel, you can accidentally disconnect the cables.
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 too.
April 11th, 2013 at 6:38 am
Hi I have a dv2000 with black screen of death, upon opening found that the two large chips under keyboard had what appears to be a small amount of blu tac, not sure if this is actually some sort of heat conducting compound or someone else’s quick fix (is a second hand machine) Are these the video chip and another? other labeled intel, think is actually the main processor .
Found info on chips as follows.
1st chip has large i and following
LE82PM965
SLA5U
E751A651
M (in a cirle) C (in a circle) 06
2nd chip clearly marked intel and has following code
NH82801HBM
L748LA17
SLA5Q
M (in a circle) C (in a circle) 05
any thoughts on this appreciated
April 10th, 2013 at 5:14 am
I burned my Hp dv 6000 ADAPTER.
I mistakingly pluged it on a very high voltage power supply/ electric generator set and i started perceiving funy odour. And immediately the generator set sstoped.
Is there anytin i can do to repair it!
April 9th, 2013 at 11:28 am
Thank you for the detailed How To!
March 1st, 2013 at 12:03 am
My mothers hp pavilion dv6000 has an issue with screen. One side is blue like the windows 7 login page and the other side is black. I have tried everything that I could think of or fpound on line, but i have yet to figure out the problem. Im not sure if its graphics card, ram, hard drive or mother board. I took picture of it if you want to see what it looks like. Just let me know or if you need more details send m e an email. thanks
January 23rd, 2013 at 12:26 pm
hello i burned the outer casing of my laptop…how can i change it??
December 15th, 2012 at 9:40 am
@ techie2013,
Did you test the laptop with an external monitor? Do you see bad image on both screens?
If the bad image appears only on the laptop screen but not external, most likely this is not the motherobard/video card related issue.
Could be failed LCD screen.
Also, check connection between the video cable and motherboard. Maybe the cable got unplugged a little bit causing this problem.
December 10th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Hello I damaged my laptop it was on sitting on the desktop and it was on and open and I drop a glass candle on the keyboard, it wasnt a hard fall but hard enough to damage the display. the colors is mixed up with teal blue screen. I tried updating the NVIDIA GEFORCE GO 6150 but that didnt work. I do repair laptoops and went to school for it but I’ve never seen this problem before….
This is Techie is stuck and need advice thanks I can do a print screen so you can see what im talking bout. email me thanks for the help.
December 5th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
i just touch the cable of the bezel,then plugged in,i/o button does not work,cannot turn on laptop,but when i touch dvd icon on bezel,laptop will turn on….any body has problem like me???
December 5th, 2012 at 5:53 am
Hi, my dv6000 wont start up at all when I switch on. Only one second, sometimes two or three on, starting up and immediately off and I can’t go any further. It looks like power fails. Tried without HD, battery and memory modules but nothing changed. Starts, leds on and immediately turns off.
How can I go on and check the trouble?
Thank you so much for any suggestion.
November 30th, 2012 at 3:42 am
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