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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 16th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Hello my dv 6000 wont start up at all when plugin the power showss it charging the battery it do nothing mmore imade surethat call the connectors are connected but nothing is it dead just need to be replaced with a new mobo or does any one suggestions
November 15th, 2012 at 7:17 am
my hp dv6000 is making interminted whirling noise, the only way to make it stop is to shut it off does anybody know what the problem is.
September 25th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
@ kayleigh,
Here’s what I would try to do:
1. Test laptop hard drive.
2. Test laptop memory.
If both pass test try reinstalling OS from scratch. If the problem still there, most likely this is motherboard related.
There are some know issues with the VGA chip on motherboard in HP Pavilion dv6000 laptops.
Take a look at this fix: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2011/02/23/fix-laptop-motherboard-with-failed-nvidia-graphics-chip/
September 25th, 2012 at 5:15 am
Hi im having some problems with my HP DV6000 where it will just freeze and lock up in normal mode but works fine in safe mode and safe with networking mode.
On power up it will say after i has frozen (and i need to pull the plug) that it suffered and error and this error was the BSOD however I never see this BSOD on screen.
Ive ran numerous virus/malware/spyware scans they are all clean, ive updated all the drivers they are fine, and ive compressed defragged and chkdskd it all numerous times I have came to the conclusion it may be a hardware fault.
Would you say this sort of thing could be Motherboard or CPU failure? The Cpu run at between 65c and 79c on a normal day. I think that is a bit too high personally. Do you think that maybe it could also be Win7 that is doing this? I have an XP disc I could boot into however once I do that there is no turning back as I dont have a win7 disc, Any information would be awesome. thanks
August 19th, 2012 at 10:25 am
@ Tommy,
It’s hard to tell. Could be failed memory, bad video cable, bad LCD screen, failed motherboard.
If you troubleshoot the problem down to the video card failure, you can try this method: http://www.laptoprepair101.com/laptop/2011/02/23/fix-laptop-motherboard-with-failed-nvidia-graphics-chip/
HP Pavilion dv6000 laptops have a known issue with the NVIDIA chip failure.
August 18th, 2012 at 9:37 am
My dv 6000 is totally dark when power on. Is this video card problem on motherboard. If so, how to repalce it? Need your advice.
July 23rd, 2012 at 10:45 am
@ jesse,
There are different Wi-Fi cards for HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook available here.
July 21st, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Where can I find a wifi card for a pavilion.dv6000
July 12th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
Can you tell me what the varying sizes of screws are that piece together the dv600? Also, where can I find replacement screws?
Thanks,
July 2nd, 2012 at 7:31 am
@ John R,
The complete laptop disassembly shown in this guide:
http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-hp-pavilion-dv6500-dv6600-dv6700-dv6800-notebooks/
You’ll have to go though steps 1-18 in order to remove the top cover.
After that you should be able to figure out how to replace the touchpad mounted on the back side of the top cover.