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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.
December 28th, 2011 at 10:28 pm
Good evening
1.I have have this laptop (DV6000) when i push the start button it fires for less then a second and turns off. whether the battery is in or its plugged into the wall (blue ring is lite) when it plugged in.
After doing this a few times I can see that the fan starts to turn before it powers down.
With this description what would you say is the problem?
2. I have completely disassembled the computer and found a good amount of lint in the fan and removed it. it was not as much as in that video but it was a good amount, would this stop it from booting?
all this and it seems the same as all the other described problems yet none of the videos show exactly the same problem I’m having where it powers on/off but wont boot.
I really want to check everything before I reassemble.
December 14th, 2011 at 3:12 pm
@ Jake,
I’ll be referring this guide:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-hp-pavilion-dv6500-dv6600-dv6700-dv6800-notebooks/
1. Take a look at the step 10. The speaker cable connected under the yellow arrow. Maybe this cable is disconnected?
2. Also, it’s possible you forgot to plug in the audio board shown in the step 22.
December 14th, 2011 at 12:15 am
I have a dv6700 that I recently disassembled and reassembled to clean the fan, but now it has no sound, I tried updating the drivers but that didn’t work, could you please advise?
December 6th, 2011 at 10:54 am
@ tim,
You don’t fix the display cable, you replace it with a new one.
December 4th, 2011 at 12:57 am
I think it is called the ‘diplay cable’ that goes from inverter to button board …do you know how to fix/rewire it?thanks
December 4th, 2011 at 12:03 am
Hithe cables on the 6pin white and 4pin black have come apart and split into two. The black part on the inverter socket has red yellow black blue, but there are 6 on the white onw, with strange light colours. DO you know how I can rejoin these please?because getting a part is very hard to get, it would be great* if you can help, thanks very much. The inverter i believe it is fine it is just the wiring on the left that has come apart
December 1st, 2011 at 2:04 pm
@ kumar,
If I understand correctly, the laptop just keep turning on and off by itself without showing any video?
I think this is failed motherboard (probably failed GPU) – it’s a known issue with HP Pavilion dv2000/dv6000/dv9000 laptops.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:39 am
I have a HP Pavilion dv6700, it just went out one day, I tried turning it back on and the powerlights just blink and turn off again then light up and turn off again and thescreen doesn’t even turn on,plz send me better solution for my laptop…
November 25th, 2011 at 2:32 pm
@ Erin,
Sure you can do that. I explained how to remove the front bezel in this post:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/remove-replace-lcd-screen-inverter-hp-pavilion-dv6000-laptop/
Is there any way i can take the cover off the front of the laptop in order to access the wiring to the webcam?
Try reseating the connector on the webcam, maybe it got loose.
November 25th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
hi, I’m having problems with my webcam, i’ve figured out this isnt a software issue, it must be hardware, as the laptop only seems to reconise the webcam if the laptop is almost closed
Is there any way i can take the cover off the front of the laptop in order to access the wiring to the webcam? I’m thinking maybe something has just come loose and needs re-soldering? Any help would be much appreciated 
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