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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.
November 24th, 2011 at 4:37 am
This is an very good guide – nice one!
I wanted to remove the hard drive (just to double-check that a new ‘USB external drive’ interface worked – it did…) and this article was helpful as it wasn’t particularly intuitive that the drive is lifted up at the connector end… (I didn’t realise that HP use an ‘adapter’ on the pin end of the drive).
November 10th, 2011 at 6:55 pm
@ Gee,
Take a look at the step 3, it shows how to remove the DVD drive. Basically, there is only one screw securing the drive.
You can find a new or used DVD drive on eBay.
November 10th, 2011 at 6:53 pm
@ Youwee,
Try reseating RAM modules.
Also, you can clean pins with pen eraser.
October 12th, 2011 at 5:35 am
I opened up my dv6000 and it gives me 3 beeps and the screen just stays black. I read about it being the ram being dirty , can you guide me on how to clean my ram?
September 26th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
My CD-Drive doesnt work on my HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop. Where can I buy a replacement CD-Drive and is it easy to do it myself? I dont know anything about computers.
September 25th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
hey I have a Hp 6530s, and need to get to the CMOS battery to remove the bios password. or is there any other ways. Please help.
Thankyou
September 15th, 2011 at 1:28 pm
HP Pavilion DV 6000 etc.
Get a can of compressed air, and blow into the two air in- out lets at bottom and left side. Supply with vaccum cleaner hose at oposite side to enhance the process.
To open up a laptop is tricy buisness for amateuers.
The main ussue with hp pavilion is black screen. The videocard is not cooled properly and soldering get melted loose.
Repair is possible at 125 USD, but permanent result is problematic.
See video at YOUTUBE. and decide if you are the man for repair of laptops yourselv.
There are really many laptop owners with abv. problems
Good luck. Torben Skriver Denmark
September 12th, 2011 at 6:48 am
@ Randy,
Instructions should be in the HP service manual: http://www.laptopmanualshub.com/
September 11th, 2011 at 10:01 pm
How do remove and replace hinges from my HP pavilion entertainment pc?
August 15th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Any suggestions with getting the wires back into the bezel accidentally pulled to hard and had them come out. Having a ruff time trying to get them plugged back in. 2 ribben wires