I'm never buying anything from HP ever again.

Caboose

<div class="IPBDescription">Help me for the love of kittens.</div>Seriously, for the love of kittens, specifically the one I'll shoot to relieve my frustration if I can't fix my laptop soon.

So, I have an HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook, It worked, now it doesn't. By which I mean, it won't turn on, the power button does nothing. I was using it, then I finished using it, so I shut it down, close the lid, and walk away. Well, I have a half finished paper due tomorrow that resides on the hard drive of said notebook. I've tried removing the battery and running it with just the power supply, no luck.

Next laptop's going to be a Mac.

Mantrid

Go buy an external drive case that will support 2.5 inch hard drives, and crack that sucker open (the laptop).

Then extract the delicious data.

Haze

Or take a sludge hammer to it then stab your teacher.

Rover

'Fonzie' it.

Mantrid

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'Fonzie' it.
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I've never been able to get something working just by hitting it, but I do love to go "Eyyyyy" when I fix something easily. Example: My dad's coworker had a G4 mac that was refusing to boot. She spent something like $400 on it at the Apple Store, and eventually gave it to my dad, saying if he could fix it, he could have it. After a few weeks of messing with it, he gave up. I got curious, and dragged it out. I tried to boot Knoppix, and it would boot, but really slowly. So I removed all three sticks of RAM, and then added them back in, one by one. When it had the first one, and/or the second one, it booted into Knoppix quickly, but the third made it boot extremely slow. So I pulled out the third stick, and the machine booted into OS X no problem.

So after spending $400 on experts, and many weeks of screweing around, I manage to fix it in half an hour.



'EEYYYYYYYYY!

Zig

<!--quoteo(post=1618262:date=Apr 1 2007, 06:30 PM:name=Haze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haze @ Apr 1 2007, 06:30 PM) [snapback]1618262[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Or take a sludge hammer to it then stab your teacher. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
sludge... hammer?

Caboose

You know Rover, that actually worked... Sort of... I hit a bunch of keys on the keyboard out of frustration, and knocked a key loose that was stuck, and viola, powered on.

Rover

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You know Rover, that actually worked... Sort of... I hit a bunch of keys on the keyboard out of frustration, and knocked a key loose that was stuck, and viola, powered on.
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Eyyyyyy.

Xyth

I'd go out on a limb and say your power button itself is just loose.

Tyrain

This reminds me...

*computer shuts down, Watts tries to reboot with manual in her hands*
Lev Andropov: Excuse me, but I think I know how to fix this.
Watts: Move it! You don't know the components!
Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN! *Lev Andropov hits against expensive american computers as hard as he can* *computer boots*

Best scene in space ever.

Caboose

<!--quoteo(post=1618276:date=Apr 1 2007, 09:17 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Apr 1 2007, 09:17 PM) [snapback]1618276[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
I'd go out on a limb and say your power button itself is just loose.
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I'd go out on a limb to say it's just flat borked. It still doesn't work.

I realized this soon after making the post above. I can still turn on the laptop by hitting one of the HP quicklaunch buttons, but the power button itself doesn't work, the LED behind is doesn't even light up.

I checked to see if it was loose, but alas, it's not, the ribon cables are secured nicely, and stuff. So the power button is shot.

At least I can still turn the damn thing on.

NEO_Phyte

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This reminds me...

*computer shuts down, Watts tries to reboot with manual in her hands*
Lev Andropov: Excuse me, but I think I know how to fix this.
Watts: Move it! You don't know the components!
Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN! *Lev Andropov hits against expensive american computers as hard as he can* *computer boots*

Best scene in space ever.
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->You forgot the part where he was yelling at the components during the beating.

Mantrid

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You forgot the part where he was yelling at the components during the beating.
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Is this from something?

Edit: Wait, is this from Armageddon? I think I remember this part now.

Warrior

Do you have dust build up? Get some compressed air and spray it in. This happened to my laptop and this fixed it. Could also open it up, so that dust doesn't get built in deeper inside.

Caboose

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Do you have dust build up? Get some compressed air and spray it in. This happened to my laptop and this fixed it. Could also open it up, so that dust doesn't get built in deeper inside.
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I did open it up, it looked dust free... I may disassemble it further and see what lies at the other end of the ribbon cable.

arctica

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what lies at the other end of the ribbon cable.
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If someone were to compose a geek music album, that'd make a good track title. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Drfuzzy

I work at a HP laptop refurbish plant, the dv6000 often has a faulty power button board. I'll get you a part number at work so you can try to order one. You can check the cable to it by taking out all the screws under the battery compartment, and pop off the silver switch cover <!--coloro:red--><span style="color:red"><!--/coloro-->FROM THE RIGHT SIDE ONLY<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->. Do it from the left your going to pull all the wires from the power board. Take out the screws for the keyboard (in the ram compartment) and the keyboard should come right out and show the whole wire. If everything looks ok, you got a good chance that your power button went bad.

Try to use the remote to turn it on till then, if that dont work then its most likely a power issue which means mobo or CPU.

Caboose

Yea, took it apart already, and I found the part number already, the damn board is $60. The notebook's still under warranty though. I just don't want to have to ship it again, as I've already had problems with it.

Drfuzzy

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Yea, took it apart already, and I found the part number already, the damn board is $60. The notebook's still under warranty though. I just don't want to have to ship it again, as I've already had problems with it.
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$60?! I'll get it for $10 <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />

Caboose

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$60?! I'll get it for $10 <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink-fix.gif" />
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puzl

i dont' care what you say, I'm still buying their brown sauce.

<img src="http://www.yearssupply.co.uk/images/hpsauce.gif" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

Drfuzzy

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Thats a ripoff, its a PCB with a button and 3 or 4 connector points. Like I said, I'll get you one for $10 ;D

Cereal_KillR

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You know Rover, that actually worked... Sort of... I hit a bunch of keys on the keyboard out of frustration, and knocked a key loose that was stuck, and viola, powered on.
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It's spelled v<b>oi</b>l; a v<b>io</b>la is a string instrument, similar to the violin but slightly larger. Voilà is a French word meaning roughly "there you go" or "here"

Caboose

<img src="http://xs414.xs.to/xs414/07142/whathtecrap.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

My display rocks by the way. The bottom two thirds freeze the image on screen there until I squeeze the area on the left side where the frozen image ends. Been doing this for about a week. If I squeeze it enough, I can make it work properly again.

I spent about the last hour and a half reading the maintenance manual and taking the whole thing apart. The bloody button is broken, the ribbon cable is attached nicely. I even took the display off and removed the plastic shell, can't find any visible damage to the display.

:edit: oh, and as you can see, the power button in the bottom left isn't even lighting up.

Dethwish_J

Send it back with a nasty complaint letter. Make a lot of demands then tell them your consumer rights have been violated with the poor service and product you have received?

Then document it on a blog or something to try and get e-stardom.

Drfuzzy

FFS you should of just asked me, it was just the lcd cable getting knocked loose from you messing with the power button board. All it would of taken was to push the lcd cable next to the power board back into the mobo and it should of fixed it. I repair about 20 of these a day, i know >.>

If you go get another one, get one of the large HP silver DV8000 style laptops. Thats the one I'm on now. Works great. The dv6000 ones (both compaq and hp) have a problem with the motherboard if you have the nvidia chip/AMD. Get the dv8000 (i think thats it, we call them titans as work so i dunno the dv-xxxx ish) with dual core intel and GF GO 7600. Runs just as quick, larger screen, comes with a keypad, and its built MUCH better (its made by a company named bizcom, yours is made by quanta. Quanta products are rather cheap. Wistron is the worst but they scrapped most of them already.)

Caboose

So, how do I go about fixing that? I just checked the LCD cable and pushed on it a bit, it's pretty snug. The screen's still doing it.

:edit:

ya, the "Titan" is a dv9000 It's too big for me, I got one just big enough to have power. It's Nvidia/Intel btw a c2d. If I were to get another one, it'd be the dv2000, considerably smaller.

Drfuzzy

Try pulling the cable off and putting it back on, that usually fixes it over just pushing on it. If that dont work, take the LCD apart and check the cable on the back also, the cable usually does not come off there but it can. If your having this many problems why not just return it and get a exchange?

If you take it apart be sure to be VERY careful taking off the bezel, it snaps really easy on the dv6000 models. Just run a pen or butterknife up the inside once its unscrewed (screws are under the pads) and it will pop out. Ignore any small little broken clips, they dont do anything. Half screen usually is caused by bad lcd cable or the lcd itself if reseating does not work.

the_x5

Caboose stop being a noob and let DrFuzzy help you before you ruin things more. Better yet send it to him, or me since we live like ~50mi apart or something like that. (unless you've moved DrFuzzy, and btw you don't still go to Condor's perchance do you?)

Caboose

But I love my lappy, and I need it. I went 2 weeks without it the last time I had to send it back. (that was sort of my fault, involving a hex editor, and the BIOS so I could use my new wlan card. (Atheros chip FTW))

But If I can avoid loosing it for any length of time, I'd rather do that.

:edit:

Plus, the last time, they erased my stage1 Gentoo install, installed XP Home, without installing the drivers...

If I were to ship them a notebook without a HD, what would they do?

the_x5

Exactly, that's why you should send it to him personally. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />