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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 2nd, 2012 at 6:56 am
Hi,
please show how to change the mouse pad by just unscrewing the minimum number of screws and parts to be removed. I have a HP dv6700.
thanks
May 8th, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Hi guys!
I have a dv6358 and it’s not working, but I need to get a mac address of my Ethernet adapter. Is it written there somewhere inside? because I can see, that it is for the Wi-Fi card, and it’s quite easy to get to it, but I’m not that sure about Ethernet adress. How many steps do I take, like do I need to remove the keyboard?
May 6th, 2012 at 3:59 am
@Derek I realise this might be a little late for you, but hopefully it can help anyone with the same problem.
I find the least invasive way of accessing the cooling fan is to undo the three screws under the battery compartment and lift up the control panel above the keyboard. This gives you an exposed view of about half the fan, which is usually all you need to free it up from anything which may be clogging it.
April 12th, 2012 at 9:18 am
Hi, first of all, really nice guide. I opened up my laptop following everything, i just needed to clean the fan, but i think i messed up on step 6, because after i put everything back the power button just won’t work. I tried everything and i think it’s possible that the cable is ruined or something. I did try to push it a little bit and turned on the computer and it worked, then when i assemble again it won’t work.I don’t know where to find this cables other than buying a used one for spare parts.
Those cables will enter with the letters up no?
March 22nd, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Pictures look great, should be enough to get to my air fan & clean it. Yet, this is all that I want to do at the moment & I’m a bit apprehensive taking the cover off of my laptop as I’ve never done so before. Nervous I may tweek something or the such.
What is the simplest way to get to the air fan on the HP Pav 6000 model in this case?
Every video post I’ve found starts at the air fan inside of the laptop already!
In addition or before this step (although I assume it has got to be good to get inside and clean the accumulated deby that compressed air can’t get to on occasion) how can I get the system to detect an inoperable air fan? If possible?
Since I notice the lack of, into zero air intake/outake of the vents; the laptop shutdown when processing was up and no longer runs on power settings High Performance at all, Balanced for a limited & varied amount of time, & Power Saver with low low settings only and still gets hot. (But it’s always hot! ??? Pre-issue as well…) Any tips,advice,troubleshooting, direct solutions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks to all that take the time to post pages such as this & answer questions on forums!
February 10th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
@ Travis T,
Try booting in Safe Mode. Turn on the laptop and press F8 when HP logo appears on the screen. The next window should shown a few boot options. Try Safe Mode. Will it work in Safe Mode?
February 9th, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Ok, I have to say my problem with my HP pavilion dv6000 is alike how it is described above and by others on this page; however, I think I can provide more detail of my problem. My problem is that when I restart my laptop it begins as normal from the quick launch program logo and starting options for the program flashes for a few seconds then a dos typing space flashes and disappears, as normal. After this, the Windows program and start screen turns on, however a black screen is held and stays until the power is drain. I did do some troubleshooting advices such a turning it completely off, removing the power and battery and restart. I hit control+alt+delete but only restart to the same process to the black screen. I know the power is good from it holding the power, the screen is good from showing graphics, so I’m not sure if its restarting all the correct programs, or if the system is over heating. Please send a message for help. Thanks.
February 8th, 2012 at 6:44 pm
@ Eric,
First, test your laptop with an external monitor.
If external video doesn’t work, most likely this is well known GPU failure.
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/fix-video-failure-hp-pavilion-dv2000-dv6000-dv9000-notebooks/
February 8th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
@ wbe,
Could be one of the following:
1. Failed power button board (not likely though).
2. Motherboard failure (way more likely on dv6000).
I cannot tell what is causing the problem without testing the laptop.
By the way, what happens when you push on the power button? Does it make any noise at all? Maybe fan spinning?
February 7th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Update: I replaced the CMOS battery and it didn’t make any difference. What could it be?