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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.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:33 am
Kev,
Not sure what’s going on.
Try this.
Remove the battery and start the laptop from the AC adapter with the battery removed.
Will it work this way? Can you make it fail if you wiggle the adapter plug inside the laptop a little bit?
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 am
Hi, I have a DV6615en model and for some reason it works fine with a battery but when I attach the AC adaptor it will randomly switch off with a click?
Does anyone have any ideas as to what it might be, could it be a faulty AC board?
Thanks.
February 28th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
I have hp omnibook (XE) but needs to be unlocked what do I need to do to unlock this thing? thanx for your help
February 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
ceci,
In the comment 18 I posted a link to the official maintenance and service guide (3.28MB pdf file). In the guide you’ll find step-by-step disassembly instructions.
February 26th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
how do you take apart the rest of the laptop?
like getting under the mouse pad?
February 26th, 2009 at 10:15 am
i need to replace the motherboard of a Hp pavilion dv6000 laptop
can you help me out?
February 24th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
nunya,
Did you reconnect the video cable? Maybe connection between the video cable and motherboard wasn’t good?
February 24th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Andrew,
You are missing a screw. Look again.
Same thing held me up for about 2 minutes.
February 24th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Hey, thanks for this!
TAKE NOTE TROUBLESHOOTERS: This disassembly guide took care of the dreaded flickering screen issue that is apparently pretty common on the DV6000 (part of a larger warranty program that I don’t qualify for). I’ve had this laptop 2 years and it’s been absolutely problem free until a month ago. The flicker gradually got worse and the general trend is eventually you see nothing. I simply followed this guide to get inside the case, made sure all the connections and pieces involved were sitting solid and put it back together and the problem has disappeared.
You are the MAN!
I was just about to drop $1500 on a new laptop.
There are a lot of complaints about this HP model, but it’s been a great laptop for me. Glad to keep it for a while longer.
XP Clean install
Centrino Duo 1.6Ghz
Nvidia GeForce Go 7400
2gb Ram
320 gb upgrade for stock 70gb hard drive in the mail and will try upgrading to Vista Ultimate since they finally came up with a video card driver for Vista.
February 23rd, 2009 at 8:10 pm
I have a dv6245 HP, I power it up but lcd stays like if its off. After further inspection i found the fan burnt and partially melted. Does this mean my processors & boards are gone or is it just a replacement of fan I have to worry about.