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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.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 am
I haave a hp pavillion dv600and if i connect a projector to do presentations it is not showing the image on the projector. If I press the function and f4 buttons it switches over to the different options but does not show the image through the projector. Occasionaly the image will flicker through the projector but only for a millisecond. if i connect the projector through another laptop it works fine.
Thanks
July 19th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Sanni Kay,
Start your laptop with an external monitor attached to the VGA port. Can you get video on the external monitor?
July 19th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Brian,
It’s hard to tell what is going on. First of all, I would try disconnecting the internal keyboard and starting the laptop with an external USB keyboard. If you still experiencing the same problem, apparently you’ve damaged the motherboard.
If the laptop works fine when the internal keyboard is removed, try replacing it with a new one.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Garrett,
Try removing the wireless card and cleaning contacts with pen eraser. Maybe the contacts got oxidized.
If it doesn’t help, try replacing the card.
You cannot tell if it’s bad Wi-Fi card or motherboard until you test the laptop with another known good Wi-Fi card.
By the way, please read this post. HP fixes some out of warranty dv6000 laptops at no charge and one of the reasons is the wireless connectivity problem. Maybe your laptop qualifies for a free repair.
July 16th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I was recently dual-booting Windows 7 and Windows Vista on my dv6000. I was on W7, and I hibernated, and when i came back, there was no wireless network at all, and i went into Device Manager, and my Broadcom 4321AG 802.11a/b/g/draft-n wireless adapter had totally dissapeared. So i thought it was a windows 7 problem, so i rebooted to Vista. Same problem. so, i cleared my hard drive and did a totally fresh Vista install. I updated to SP2 by hooking up a network cable from my router, just to see if it would do anything. That was a few days ago. Today, all of a sudden, a balloon pops up with the whole “Installing new device driver” or whatever it says, and then it says that it failed to install my broadcom wireless adapter! so i was curious, and went into device manager, and it actually showed the wireless card, but with the yellow triangle with an ! in the middle of it. I updated the driver for it, it worked, and i was getting the internet in my browser (without a network cable plugged in). But then, while leaving music playing on itunes for a party, the wireless adapter just dissapeared, because i came back and had the same problem i had at the beginning. I found this page, looking for instructions on how to take out and reinsert my wireless card. So i did that, and it is the same problem, nothing more or less. Is there a problem with my wireless card? My motherboard? (i hope not)
July 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I have a dv6000 and spilled some water on the keyboard the other day. The keys have been a bit weird since so I decided to restart my comp, for the first time since the spill, to see if that would solve the issue. When it went to boot up, a screen titled PhoenixBIOS setup utility screen came up and I can not get past this screen. Any advice?
July 15th, 2009 at 10:44 am
My hp dv6000 is booting without the screen. the screen is black and you see the lights on bezel blinking. Tell me what to do pls.
July 12th, 2009 at 9:26 am
have tryed the power off battery out thing with no luck. Tryed to do bios thing no luck
July 12th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I took the laptop apart to see if the fan was bad and after putting it back together the screen is black. Ive checked all connections and cant seem to locate the problem. Please help !!
July 10th, 2009 at 3:26 am
my friends son pee’d on my hp pavilion dv9000 laptop and then turned it on, I striped it down to the mother board and am now i am blowdrying it to dry it up but the fan smells burnt, how do I test the fan to see if its still working?