20 Most Recent HP Pavilion DV6500T Notebook Questions & Answers

Try this:

To repair your computer using Startup Repair follow these steps:

1. Boot into Vista installation DVD
2. Choose your language settings and click Next
3. Click Repair your computer
4. Choose your operating system and click Next. This should bring up System Recovery Options.
5. Click on Startup Repair

Startup Repair should now start diagnosing your system to identify the root cause of the failure. Once it has identified the root cause, it would automatically start repairing your computer. If you are curious to know what Startup Repair did, you can click on the details link and see which tests Startup Repair ran to diagnose the problem.
After Startup Repair has finished the repairs, click Finish to reboot your computer.
Your computer should now be able to boot normally into Vista!!
Note -- If your computer cannot boot into Vista even after repairs, then go back to System Recovery Options and run System Restore.
That's it! This is how you use Startup Repair for most unbootable situations.

update the BIOS.. in run box type "msconfig" >> go to "services" tab>> tick on "hide all microsoft services" >> click disable all> apply restart

motherboard defect

This could be a broken battery

If your battery, charger, and DC Jack are ok, then the most common problem is the surface mount transistors on your HP's main board called MOSFET's. They are small 30V N channel 8 pin components soldered to the main board. The boards also have transistor circuits which switch back and forth between a charging and discharging state. However these rarely ever fail. The MOSFETS fail because of the thermal loads which they must endure. Although some notebooks (like the Gateway I'm currently on) have a DC jack which serves dual purpose of supplying DC 19V AND connecting/disconnecting charging circuit. However your HP dv6K does not. However it's worth mentioning that these models have had all sorts of problems...most notably poor thermal design to begin with that usually creates solder connection problems with the main chipset especially on AMD models. Good luck.. :)

Try another Cord/charger with the EXACT same power specs. Has the AC jack been damaged due to pulling on the cord? Is the Transformer (brick) on the cord getting warm? Is the Battery LED on?

Did you replace the hard disk?

1. Please remove the AC adpater from AC power socket.
Check the power adapter output with Digital multimter. keep the multimeter in DC 20v range.
If the output is ok. then

2. Remove the laptop Battery from laptop and Remove the ac adapter from laptop
Press power on button for 10-15 seconds.
then connect the ac adapter to laptop and plug it to AC POWER wWITHOUT BATTERY.
Try to turn on laptop.
If laptop powered on .. shutdown properly and keep the battery and charge to full...


Hope this helps to you.
If your problem not solved, please let me know...

the same proplem please help

check tuchpad sensitivity.

if i was you i would take it to a shop and that is what anyone should do when the problem is that big

1. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD drive, and then restart the computer.
2. Click to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD drive if you are prompted.
3. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
4. Press 1 (One) to select windows XP and then hit enter.
5. When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER.
6. At the command prompt, Type Bootrec /RebuildBcd and then press ENTER.
7. If the Bootrec.exe tool runs successfully, it presents you with an installation path of a Windows directory. To add the entry to the BCD store, type yes. A confirmation message appears that indicates the entry was added successfully.
8. If the Bootrec.exe tool cannot locate any missing Windows installations, you must remove the BCD store, and then you must re-create it. To do this, type the following commands in the order in which they are presented. Press ENTER after each command.

Bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup

ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old

Bootrec /rebuildbcd

9. Restart the computer

The cables for these are fairly specific, but if you have a cbale that has the same plugs and fits both the transformer side and the computer side, you cna use that as a replacement. The cord itself has no polarity.
Are you looking to do something else here?

It's because of the poor cooling design. The Cooling Tube, and Heatsink.

Processor overheats, and turns off.

Also causes the Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS, GPU, to lift up out of it's BGA , on the motherboard.

[GPU
Graphics Processing Unit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU

Nvidia GeForce 8400M GS, (GPU)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series#GeForce_8400M_Series

BGA (Ball Grid Array)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_grid_array ]

Solution?

Not recommended by me, but this is someones approach, which part of it helps the cooling system with the Processor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnkQNmKauEc

Try to drain the static energy of the motherboard first by follwing this steps.

Take out the battery
Unplugged the power adapter
Press and hold the power button for 30 secs
Put the battery back in
Plugged in the power adapter
Turn ON the computer

If still NO display. You need to call HP tech support department for this could be a mainbaord issue. Since you mention that system is running hot. Computer fan might stop working that damages the mainboard.

Go to the link provided and try to download or update the driver. If that doesnt work them the driver is bad and you will need to buy a new one,
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=3369405&os=2093&lang=en

That usually means the drive has failed and needs to be replaced. You may have noticed that it was slower and noisier shortly before it stopped. It probably stopped be able to burn dvds, then cd first, then it had problems reading dvds but would read cd's then finally nothing. Thats the typical pattern. Some just go from normal to nothing but thats not as common.

The cd/dvd drive is a simple repair and easily attempted. There is one screw that holds the drive in place on thebottom. Undo that screw and the drive slides out. Push the new drive in and put the screw in and you are done.

You can buy a replacement drive from several places including HP. You want to get it from a third party not HP. HP charges more. You should check to see if you have any warrenty either from HP or the store. they will replace this under warrenty. A replacement drive for this looks to be rather expensive at $200+ even from third party suppliers. Those can be found simply by searching for 'laptop replacement parts' using google or bing. Then looking up your specific model.

Remove the driver and re-install it

Hi there, if charged battery on the power of laptop is fine and not have any problem with your laptop. Your power cord may damaged. Please visit a electronis repair center and test the power code. 90 % chance of adapter damaged.
Thanks.