Your touchpad is central to your laptop's functionality. Namely, the touchpad is a small platform on the laptop's case that functions as a virtual mouse. It translates the movements from your finger into cursor movements on the screen. Whether you drop something on your laptop, or spill liquid on the touchpad, the touchpad device is easy to damage. Replacing a broken touchpad in your HP Pavilion dv6000 requires completely dismantling the laptop.
Instructions
1. Shut down the laptop, unplug the main power cord and close the display panel. Flip the laptop over and rotate it so the front opening edge is facing you. Slide the battery-release latch to the left to disengage the battery pack from its compartment in the upper-left corner of the laptop. Lift the battery pack out of the compartment.
2. Unscrew the two Phillips-head screws from the hard drive compartment cover located in the lower-right corner of the laptop. Lift the cover off of the laptop, grasp the hard drive's pull tab and lift the hard drive out of the laptop.
3. Remove the memory compartment cover and its two retaining screws from the center of the laptop's bottom case. Spread apart the two retention clips on each side of both memory modules inside the compartment. Lift each module upward at a 45-degree angle. Slide each module out of its individual slot.
4. Disconnect the antenna cables from the wireless (WLAN) card located inside the empty memory compartment. Remove the two Phillips-head screws from the card. Tilt the card upward and pull it out of the motherboard socket.
5. Remove the single Phillips-head screw fastening the CD/DVD drive to its compartment in the upper-left corner of the laptop below the battery compartment. Insert a paper clip into the release hole on the face of the drive. Push the clip into the hole until the drive ejects from its compartment. Pull the drive out of the laptop.
6. Remove all remaining Phillips-head screws from the bottom side of the laptop. Flip the laptop over, pull open the display panel and lift the switch cover off of the laptop. This is the plastic piece above the keyboard. Disconnect the ribbon cable from the switch cover's bottom side. Remove the cover from the laptop.
7. Grasp the top edge of the keyboard, tilt it upward at a 45-degree angle and disconnect the keyboard's ribbon cable from the motherboard. Lift the motherboard out of the laptop and set it aside.
8. Remove the two Phillips-head screws from the speaker assembly lining the top edge of the laptop's base. Disconnect the speaker cables from the motherboard and lift the speaker assembly out of the laptop.
9. Disconnect the LCD video cable from its connector in the upper-left corner of the motherboard. Remove the Phillips-head screws from each display hinge and lift the entire LCD panel off of the laptop. Relocate the screen to a padded surface with the screen facing upward.
10. Unscrew the three remaining Phillips screws from the laptop's top cover. Disconnect the three touchpad cables extending from the palm rest to the motherboard. Locate the thin, plastic trim lining the back edge of the top cover. Remove the trim and lift the entire top cover off of the laptop's base.
11. Place the top cover face down on a flat surface. Locate the touchpad device on the bottom side of the top cover. Remove the screws fastening the touchpad to the top cover. Lift the touchpad out of its compartment in the cover and set it aside.
12. Reverse this procedure to install the new touchpad device and put your laptop back together.
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