HP LaptopHP Pavilion DV6
HP Pavilion DV6 Disassembly (Remove Keyboard, Clean Cooling Fan)
In this guide, I’ll explain how to disassemble the HP Pavilion DV6 to remove the RAM, hard drive, wireless card, keyboard, palm rest, cooling fan, and motherboard.
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Turn off your laptop. Unlock and remove the battery.
Release the latch. Remove the service cover.
Once the service cover is removed, you can access the hard drive, RAM, and wireless card.
Remove the RAM, hard drive, and DVD drive.
Disconnect two antenna cables and remove two screws. Remove the wireless card.
Remove the screw securing the keyboard.
Turn over the laptop. Lift up the keyboard. Disconnect the keyboard cable and remove the keyboard.
Remove seven screws securing the palm rest. Disconnect all the cables.
Remove all screws from the bottom case.
Pry up the palm rest with a pry bar and guitar picks.
Disconnect the speaker cable, DC jack cable, LCD cable, and USB board cable. Remove the screws securing the motherboard.
The motherboard has been removed.
Remove eight screws securing the heat sink.
Heat sink and cooling fan
Remove four screws.
Uncover the tapes that secure the cooling fan. You can clean the fan with a brush.
Heat sink
Omg! it’s too difficult. need details.
I have a similar model laptop. The problem I am facing is where the eight screws securing the heat sink; two of them are stuck. When screwing them, they seem to be spinning in place, and the golden parts beneath them are moving while screwing (they should not be moving). How do I approach this?
Hello, Rokas. you don’t need to remove all that screws. I watch one video on YouTube without removing the whole heatsink in the board. Just remove the screw on the fan, and you will clean it without a problem.
What tools are required to do this process? Do I need replacement tape for any of the parts?
Just a question: I previously had overheating issues with HP Pavillion laptops. As a tech, I narrowed down the issue to a flaw in the design of the cooling system whereby the heatsink had only one copper tube serving both the GPU and the processor, so processors like AMD tend to overheat and damage the GPU as well. in the case of the above machine what is the experience as I can see HP has introduced two copper tubes .kindly keep me informed as I had actually kept off buying or recommending pavilion laptops. Again, what is the normal temperature on this machine when it is idle?
A treat. Clear and concise. Thanks much.
Mine only has one copper tube going to the processor and the other chip is exposed. There’s a lot of heat that comes from my laptop.
I disassembled and reassembled it, but it will not turn on, and I have no idea what I’m missing or why it did not reconnect.