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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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May 12th, 2010 at 11:35 am
I have an HP DV6000
The on/off switch is not responsive.
The DVD button will turn on the system but it goes to the player screen
However, I can get into bios and move around
The on/off switch is suspect…..
My question is about parts availability and/or other possible solutions
May 7th, 2010 at 5:32 am
Hi man,
very nice guide. thx a lot for it. however I have problems with overheating (I guess as sometimes when I play games computer just turn off) so I’d like to clean up cooler fan. can you advice how to do it? pictures would be nice. I have hp dv 6000.
thx a lot in advance.
BR,
Brano
May 4th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
nico,
You are welcome! Glad to help.
May 4th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
I just wanted to thank you that you, whenever in the past, took the time, took the pictures, put all the work in to post it up on this website and made this accessible.
As the DVD drive of my dv6000 stopped working and I ebayed a new one, I started today by step
by step unscrewing all the screws at the bottom piece, thinking this would be the only and logic way for me to get to the DVD drive. Then when I was frustrated with not being able to lift off the bottom piece, even though all the screws were out – I had the brilliant idea (lol) to now check online and see if it is maybe somewhere described how to do this.
So, I find your site – and see that all I needed to do was loosen “one” screw to get the DVD drive out!
And that alone spared me so much headache and whatever other nonsense since I would have probably ripped it appart – that this deserves a BIG THANK YOU for posting up this info on how to disassemble your dv6000 laptop! – I TRULY APPRECIATE IT!
nico
April 23rd, 2010 at 9:30 am
Chuck Benesch,
How it clicks? Does it sound like a hard drive click?
I don’t know. I guess it depends where you buy the motherboard. If you buy already “fixed” motherboard, it might fail again.
April 23rd, 2010 at 6:54 am
I have a HP DV 6700 laptop and it does not turn on, acyually it starts then clicks and shuts of in loop. I understand this modle has a mother board problem. it is out of warrenty.
Question: Is there a differnt motherboard that I can get and install? the replacement board that HP has put in, when they did do a warrenty would do the samething in a few months.
great site, I plan to sdo the repairs myself.
Thanks
April 19th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Hi,
The speakers of my laptop often didn’t work, also the quickbuttons didn’t work all the time.
But now it doesn’t even turn on. The blue battery charge led doesn’t turn on and i get zero response at all from my dv6000.
Anybody any idea?
I couldn”t find a fuse on the mainboard.. maybe because there is no fuse on the mainboard?
April 17th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Adrian,
Make sure the wireless card is ENABLED. Take a look at the wireless card in the device manager.
Also, if your laptop has a physical switch for the wireless card make sure it’s turned on.
Can you see the wireless router at all?
April 17th, 2010 at 4:14 am
We have a wireless router, and our laptop used to pick it up fine, now it absolutely refuses to pick up networks. I have checked the WLANSVC, which appears to be working fine, does this mean my Wi-Fi card is fried?
April 11th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Hi, I have a dv6211tx. Question can I replace the its current hard drive which is a
Brand Fujitsu
Model MHV2120BH
Packaging Bare Drive
Interface SATA 1.5Gb/s
Capacity 120GB
Cache 8MB
Average Seek Time 12ms
Average Latency 5.56ms
RPM 5400 RPM
Form Factor 2.5″
With any larger hard drive (500 GB upwards) which is SATA 3.0 Gb/s to 6.0 Gb/s, but the same form factor, cache, RPM
April 10th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Thanks Laptop tech. I’m planning to test the laptop with another ac power supply. I hope that’s all that’s wring but I haven’t tested yet. When I take out the battery and plug in the ac adapter the same thing takes place. The ring lights up and it will only turn on for a sec and then nothing.
April 9th, 2010 at 10:00 am
First of all, thanks for this blog, it is very useful.
I have a question, the touchpad on the laptod isn’t working fine, when I apply pressure on it, it start moving in a crazy manner, but when I use it normally it doesn’t respond at all.
Can it be fixed?
TIA
April 4th, 2010 at 10:10 am
Kgayler2162,
If the laptop fails with a known good AC adapter, most likely this is the motherboard problem.
It could be a know issue mentioned in the following article: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/free-repair-hp-pavilion-compaq-presario-laptops-out-of-warranty/
It’s possible that your laptop qualifies for a free repair from HP.
April 4th, 2010 at 3:45 am
I have a Hp Pavilliondv6000, When I push power button it flashes for 1 sec. then nothing. The battery and the power supply are working fine. the store I bought it says I should buy a new one for the cost of sending it out to be repaired. How do I tell if it is the mother board? The tech said something was fried, don’t know what. Could it be the memory that causes this specific sympton/problem? Please Help.
April 2nd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Hi,
I have a HP Pavilion DV6000 Laptop.I have a problem with this display.When I turn on my Laptop,it’s screen getting white,there is no data found.Just like a whit screen.I could not find anything on the screen.Would you please tell me how can I solve this problem?
April 1st, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Malik,
Check out this article explaining how to secure/fix damaged keyboard connector:
http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2009/11/17/fix-broken-keyboard-connector-on-laptop-motherboard/
March 31st, 2010 at 10:31 am
John,
Most likely it’s either the inverter board or backlight lamp (mounted inside the LCD screen) problem.
I would try replacing the inverter board first. There is a good chance to fix the laptop.
Take a look at this link:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/remove-replace-lcd-screen-inverter-hp-pavilion-dv6000-laptop/
You’ll see how to access the screen inverter.
March 31st, 2010 at 5:52 am
I have a HP DV6000 laptop running Windows 7 32 bit. All the drivers and the BIOS have been updated.
The display randomly goes dark . I can see the display is still working and if I close the lid and reopen it slowly the lights come back on but eventually go off again. If I connect an external monitor the computer works fine. I can disassemble and reassemble the laptop without any problem.
Thanks
March 21st, 2010 at 7:23 am
Trying to remove keyboard on my HP Elitebook 6930p, the keyboard cable connector locking tab has come off. Is it available as a spare part? The connector itself is fine. Before I buy a replacement keyboard, is there any hope for securing the cable to the connector?
March 20th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Thanks for posting, this saved my HP Laptop from the scrap heap.
March 8th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Just for clarification it is the wire that can be seen in step 8. Apparently a 8 and a ) next to each other pulls up a cool guy.
March 8th, 2010 at 9:39 am
So I was wondering if you could help me out. I changed my touch pad in my dv6324us and was un plugging the connector that goes to the LCD screen and the connector broke. (gold wire can be seen in picture associated with step
Is there any way you could tell me the color order of the wires starting from the left? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
March 7th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
How will I know if the hard drive that I have in my notebook, is sata or ata?
March 5th, 2010 at 10:19 am
gowtham,
It’s very easy. The CMOS (RTC) battery is located in the memory compartment. You can see the CMOS battery in the step 4, it’s on the left side from the Wi-Fi card.
Simply disconnect the old CMOS battery from the motherboard and plug in a new one. That’s it.
March 5th, 2010 at 6:07 am
how to replace my cmos batt in hp 6226tx. ur page is superb with pictures. thanku for this
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Tom Martin,
You can use this DIY guide for HP Pavilion dv5000 series or follow instructions in the official service manual.
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
how do i disasy my hp dv 5000?
Thanks…
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Oscar,
First of all I would test the AC adapter to make sure it outputs correct voltage. Maybe the voltage is wrong and it’s enough to light up the ring around the power socket, but not enough to power up the laptop or charge the battery.
What happens if you plug the AC adapter when the battery is removed?
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Bobby,
This shouldn’t be a problem. These cables are antennas for the wireless card. If in doubt, you can try connecting them like on my picture.
Probably same issue like with most dv2000, dv6000, dv9000 notebooks. HP knows about this problem. Read here:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/free-repair-hp-pavilion-compaq-presario-laptops-out-of-warranty/
Maybe you can get a free repair from HP.
March 1st, 2010 at 9:46 pm
First off, Thanks for the info!!
Two quick questions.
My wireless card stopped working like everybody else.
On your wireless card the Black wire is on the right and the Grey on the left. Mine is opposite, It has been in for repair once before for the same issue. could that be the prob?
Like a few others when I press the power button the all the lights that are supposed to come on will light up for a second and then turn off.
It worked fine sat night, then I went to turn it on today and nothing, Maybe like 1 out of 15 tries the HD will kick on but then turns right off.
Any Ideas??
Thanks