HP Pavilion dv6500 start up issue

I got my HP dv6500 some 3.5 years ago. XP Home, 2GB RAM, Core 2 Duo, 250GB HDD. But these past ~5 months, my parents have been using it since I bought myself a new laptop.

Now ever since today, when ever you try to turn it on, it makes a few scattered 'beeping' noises and all the LEDs across the keyboard (so volume, play button, stop etc) light up, as well as the power button, but it only stays at that. It doesn't go any further, it just stays in that state no matter what, the screen doesn't seem to turn on (I even connected an external monitor and that didn't achieve anything), yet the hard drive is working rather loudly, and the fan seems to be too.

My dad said that before it happened, he had it on sleep, and it wouldn't turn on that way, so he called me and I suggested that he turn it off by the actual power button, then on again, he said that it worked but afterwards it stopped.

Any ideas what the problem might be? The laptop heats up rather quickly actually and you can usually hear the HDD working rather loudly. Could it have over heated and 'died'? Could it be the battery? Some virus?

 

First, it could be your GPU, MotherBoard, RAM sticks or your HDD.

First, I would try to remove the HDD and see if the laptops turns on, if it dosn't, I would try one RAM stick and see if that makes a diffrence..

By the way, warranty is out, right?

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give it a go.

And yes warranty is out :/ I remember getting it for 3 years, yet that was 3.5 years ago..

 

You're welcome mate. Yes do that, and report back. I'll be happy to try to figure this out.

 

Alrighty. I took the HDD out, still the same 'beeping' noise. I took one memory stick out, same issue. Removed the other one and put the first one back in, still the same issue.

Looks like it might be the motherboard? I'm gonna take out the HDD from my current laptop and see whether I can fit the old one in, save a few extra files (since the last backup I did was a few months ago, and my parents want me to try to get some other files that they added in mean while), and then go for the recovery disks that I created when I first got the HP laptop.

 

That sounds bad. But you don't get a picture on the screen right? It will be hard, if not impossible to use the recovry discs.

 

:/ Well I took the HDD out (Western Digital), and whilst it did fit into the slot, into my current laptop (Lenovo, which has a Seagate HDD), the connection part inside the Lenovo has these two plastic bits sticking out, that were in the way of the old HDD to get in.. :/

Do you know of any way that I could connect my old HDD up to my current laptop and retrieve some files? I'm sure there's gotta be some HDD-to-USB cable.

 

Something like this perhaps?
Laptop Repair Help Accessing notebook hard drive using USB enclosure

 

Yep. That wil do the job. Does your HDD look like that in the picture form the link you gave me?

 

Mine seems to be an IDE connector (?):


And I took a part the laptop. Got to the motherboard, just to see whether something may have been fried, but nothing noticeable. Only thing was how the tube to the fan here is somewhat darker:


And when you take the fan off, there's something else that seems kinda 'strange'. I circled it..how the material on it kinda 'melted'?


And this is what was on it:


Although I'm thinking that this is normal because of the heat that would be generated and all.

 

Yes. You need that cable you linked above. ıf you allready have opned up your laptop; repast the CPU. What you see on the picture of CPU is thermal paste which takes the heat. Aso on last picture. You need to clean that and apply new one.

Take a look here;
YouTube - how to dismantle and fix overheat on HP DV5

Not the same model, but basicly the thing is same. This will also help to drop your tempratures. Thermal pasts have a life of about 3 years. After that your laptop will start to overheat and run warmer then normal. However, I don't know if this will help to boot up your system.

Also, be carefull with electric discharge. I personally have never had a issue with it, but some users have raported dead CPUs and Motherboards because of that.

 

Thanks for your help dude.

 

Hey I've got something else to share:

It turns out that the connector part to the HDD in the picture on the previous page, well it comes off and the connection then looks exactly like the following:
The top one


So I inserted it into my current laptop (lenovo), fits perfectly, turn it on and I get the 'blue screen of death.' I'm then asked whether Windows wants to try some sort of repair, it goes on for a few minutes, asks me to restore to an earlier point, I click yes, it fiddles around, restarts and I still get the blue screen of death.

So I'm thinking I just go for the recovery disks? What do you think?