HP Pavilion G6-1d16dx Motherboard Replacement

Geschrieben von: Calvin Kerr

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HP Pavilion G6-1d16dx Motherboard Replacement

Schwierigkeitsgrad

Difficult

Schritte

Zeitaufwand

30 Minuten

Einleitung

This guide aims to teach you how to replace a motherboard, a necessary step if your computer has overheated and shorted the board. It is a fairly complex process, but through clean pictures and concise steps it should help guide you through the process.

Werkzeuge

Pro Tech Toolkit

Schritt 1

Flip the computer so that the bottom side is facing up, and locate the battery above the screen hinges.

Schritt 2

Slide the switch under the battery compartment to release the battery.

Schritt 3

Remove the battery.
The battery will have popped out of the compartment when it was released.

Schritt 4

Unscrew the two silver screws holding the protective cover in place until they make a clicking noise.
The screws do not remove from the cover.

Schritt 5

Unsnap the Cover by lifting the edge along the battery compartment.
Remove all of the body screws.
Remove the rubber cap and the screw underneath it.

There are 10 body screws plus one that holds the hard disk cover!

Eveline Bernard - 08/10/20

“Remove the rubber cap and the screw underneath it.”

I assume you mean the rubber feet at the four corners? Which of the rubber feet hides that screw?

Eveline Bernard - 08/10/20

There are body screws under the protective hard - disk - and - memory - cover! That cover has to be removed first!

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Remove the hard disk (described much to late in step 11).

There are 2 screws under the hard disk.

The memory can stay in place.

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Schritt 6

The keyboard is held in by nine tabs
Using a metal tool, depress the center tab and pry up the keyboard by pivoting the tool towards the screen.

A plastic card (credit card or the like) is handy to keep the keyboard up while opening the nine tabs.

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Make sure you did remove the screw that is at the under side between the memory compartment and the radio compartment!

A plastic card (credit card or the like) is handy to keep the keyboard up while opening the nine tabs.

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The screw that is at the underside between the memory compartment and the radio compartment is the one screw holding the keyboard in place, apart from the 9 tabs.

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Schritt 7

Slide the tool that is now under the keyboard sideways along the edge and use another tool to depress the other tabs along the edge of the keyboard.
As you depress the tabs, the edges of the keyboard will pop up.
Lift off the keyboard

Schritt 8

Flip up the black tab holding the keyboard in place via the ribbon cable and pull out the cable

Schritt 9

Remove the two remaining ribbon cables.
Remove the screws holding in the protective cover underneath the keyboard.
Pop the cover off using any flat metal tool, starting with where you took out the optical drive
It will be very sticky near the edge closest to the screen. This is where the sticker in the battery compartment is stuck to. just use a little more force.

“Remove the screws holding in the protective cover underneath the keyboard. “ there are 6 of them, see image

Eveline Bernard - 08/10/20

“Pop the cover off using any flat metal tool, starting with where you took out the optical drive “

When did we remove the optical drive? How?

Eveline Bernard - 08/10/20

“Remove the screws holding in the protective cover underneath the keyboard.” There is only one screw holding the cover protecting the hard disk and memory.

Eveline Bernard - 08/10/20