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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.
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September 1st, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Hi there, I have the HP DV 6000 AMD laptop running Windows 7 64bit with 4gb ram. It was running fine until a few weeks ago. Now if I am doing simple things like, moving folders form one drive to the other or using itunes, it will use 100% of its CPU and the crash.
Is this a fault with the motherboard as Windos seems to be working just fine.
August 15th, 2010 at 9:01 am
dp,
I think this is motherboard failure. Probably bad IDE channel on the motherboard.
I guess you’ll have to use an external USB drive now.
I wouldn’t even try that. Reflashing the BIOS with a wrong version will ruin the motherboard and there is a good chance the laptop will never boot again.
August 14th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
i have a dv9623cl (dv9000) laptop and the dvd/cd rom drive is not detected in bios. i have test 2 other drives that i know work in my other laptops and the drive works in my other laptops, however none of the drives work in the hp9623cl…
i have removed upper and lower filters, updated bios, and even deleted all partitions, installed xp, then reinstalled vista. everything works except the dvd drive.
i don’t want to assume the motherboard is at fault since this laptop has been taken care of and never taken apart. it seems to be a corruption in HP’s bios.
any suggestions? any links to how i can try a bios flash compatable with this computer that doesn’t come from HP???
August 14th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Rastor Ed,
Check memory modules. It’s possible that one of them got dislocated. Try reconnecting memory modules first.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:58 am
Steve,
Why did you mention CPU? The CPU is not soldered to the motherboard.
By the way, here’s ho I fixed my Compaq Presario V6000 with “no video” issue: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2010/04/06/fixing-compaq-presario-v6000-motherboard-no-video-issue/
Did it a few months ago, still works.
August 13th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
I disassembled my laptop and now I have two left over silver blue screws and don’t know where they go. Please help .
August 13th, 2010 at 7:13 pm
My last post was pointed towards the display not working on boot up……
August 13th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Hi to all with the dv6000 the main problem for the boot-up not work was the GPU (Chip Creep) Where the GPU or even the cpu has pulled away from the motherboard. It needs to be re-soldered back to the MB. We have had alot of problems with this model not a good product from hp. But remember that you will need some sort of packing on top of the GPU i.e 0.55mm copper plate thats half a mil. Take care when doing so……..
August 9th, 2010 at 9:18 am
This HPdv6000, fell from a chair to the floor. Looks as if the unit is booting up but no video…blank screen. Any leads to give me?
August 7th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hi
I have a HP DV6736NR. After I pushed the power button, all the lights came on. 1 second later, after the hard drive clicked, the power went off. Then the power cycles about every 5 seconds. Is the problem from the motherboard? thanks for your help
johnny
August 5th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I have HPdv6000, when I press on the power button, all the lights come on and then off right away. It keeps doing that every time I try to turn it on. Please help me with that problem, thank you
July 15th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Kenneth,
As a last resort, try baking the motherboard in oven: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2010/04/06/fixing-compaq-presario-v6000-motherboard-no-video-issue/
You have nothing to lose, right?
July 14th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Brian, I have one of these laptops, I also have been having the same problem with it. I have noticed that if I run it only on battery power, then shut down, recharge & turn back on it works fine. But, if I try to connect the power to the wall while it is on it will shut off and not turn back on,,,unless I let it sit for weeks, then eventually it will turn back on. A few days ago I left it on by accident until the battery went dead, now again it won’t turn on. So I ordered another laptop and decided to try this, I will let you know how it goes, at worst I will havbe to replace the mother board to get it working again, Thanks for the help, Ken
July 10th, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Brian,
Yep, sounds like a problem with the motherboard. I guess you’ll have to replace the motherboard OR buy a portable external USB DVD drive.
I don’t think that removing the BIOS battery will help. Try reconnecting the DVD drive a few times. Maybe the connector got oxidized and reconnecting the drive a few time will clean it.