Repairing my HP dv6500 SE

I recently dropped my laptop cracking the screen. It will not boot up. Instead it just keeps beeping and turning on and off. The tech support told me the motherboard or hard drive had shifted and was not being detected causing the on and off cycling. I would like to know if replacing the screen and fixing the hard drive or motherboard is something I can do instead of paying HP $400 for the repairs.

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I guess the $64,000 question would be how cheap you get the parts. I'd say looking for used parts on eBay is the cheapest route. You can probably buy a perfectly working dv6500 for $400.

 

I would try take the notebook apart and reseat the ram modules, hard drive and wireless card. Anything that you can reseat. Many times the impact would just knock these devices loose.

Give it a shot first before diving into expensive repairs.

cheers ...

 

Thanks for the reply. I will try to do that. Do you know if any website that has a walk through. The maintenance and service guides from HP are not so clear and the pictures don't offer enough details.

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I followed the service and maintenance guide from HP to take apart a dv9700 yesterday. Straight forward enough. They have step by step instructions on how to remove every components. Are you sure you saw that part of the guide?

RAM/hdd/wifi card should all be easily accessable underneath the notebook.

 

I took it completely apart and nothing changed. I think the HD is damaged since there is a noise coming from it when the computer is turned on. I am going to try and sell it on ebay as is. How do I find out if I can use the RAM for my current laptop to expand it from 3GB to 4GB.

Broken one- HP dv6448se
new one- HP G60-230us

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Question, when you turn it on, does the BIOS screen come up? If yes, run a hdd test to see if it is your hdd. If you cant get to the BIOS your motherboard is damaged and you might as well buy a new laptop. Replacement motherboards are usually more expensive than the notebook itself (which is really stupid IMO). Only practical route then is to attempt to salvage a good motherboard from another dv6500. But as you dont find the HP Service manual to be straightforward I would strongly advise against that, because replacing the motherboard is a rather delicate process.

If you're set on selling it, please pm me a link to your auction or if you want I might give you an offer if you can give me a more detailed assessment of the damages and some pictures, as I think I'll be interested in aquiring it for myself.