Pavilion dv6700 won't start

[Ltoure]

I was able to resolve my issue by simply buying a new power cord /adapter from a friend. Now my laptop is running as normal but it has to be plugged in most of the time. My battery is obviously the cause ,once I get a new battery, I should be good.
My advice to you: b4 spending money on anything, borrow a power cord from a friend to check if that is the problem
Good luck

[Blaklobo]

OMG my wifes HP Pavilion dv6700 CTO Entertainment Notebook took a crap the other day while it was on sleep... she went to wake it up then it shut down.. then.. bios hp screen... then a little cursor in the left hand corner blinks... and blinks...and blinks...and blinks...and blinks so i shut ioff.. took the battery out of the motherbord... removed the mem aswell... nothing..just goes.. hp splashscreen then the curser blink and blinks...and blinks... did a mem test ..passed... did HD test both quick and comperhensive.. passed... i just cant even get the thing to boot from a disk or USB... any ideas before i toss it out the window.. 

[CherylG]

@Blaklobo

Enter BIOS and reset to Defaults, Save & Exit.

Have you tried tapping the F8 key just as the HP logo screen passes to see if you can get into Safe Mode? If you can get into SM and next do a complete shutdown before trying to restart it may jog the hdd out of sleep mode.

A faulty CD/DVd drive can cause a boot halt.Try removing the drive to see if it will boot.

Have you tried tapping the F11 key immediately after powering on to see if you can boot into Recovery from the hdd partition?

[Blaklobo]

Funny thing i  get this from the great and wise Huffer... no dice on any of advise

From:  Huffer 

Sent: 10-05-2012 06:19 AM

If it is the AMD version odds are it is a motherboard issue. It can be fixed fairly cheap. If you can remove the motherboard there are good services on eBay that will reflow the motherboard for well under $100 if they do not have to disassemble/reassemble. But there is no way to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, which these models are. The fix might last a year if you are lucky.

[CherylG]

@Blaklobo

Huffer could very well be right. One of the better services I know of (and doesn't require you to remove motherboard) has been used by several members here and a personal friend of mine who sent her laptop to him.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-DV2000-DV6000-DV9000-TX1000-Laptop-No-Video-REPAIR-/260595095107?

[pete07004]

Hi same thing happened to mine and I got it back to work just like this within the 2 seconds that it goes on press all the button on top line from f1 to delete them your computer will stay on black screem but on leave it. Them if stay like that turn it off by pressing the power button them turn it on again leave black screen again but on leave it within 1 minute your computer will start working again remember put one of the fingers on f1 and move as fast as you can trought all the keys just to keep it on let me know if it works it dit in mine.Good lock

[Techie94928]

Hey all,

 You may want to try hitting F9 on boot and select the hard drive. I have a dx6700 and have found that to be the workaround on mine, not sure it will be the same for you, but it is something to try! 😉 Beats buying a new computer...

[TedYB]

I have a dv6700 with the same issue with power up of LEDS, then shuts down.  I removed the motherboard and tested with just the motherboard, same thing.  I determined bad video chip that is imbedded on motherboard.  I search eBay for a replacement and found there is a HP GPU Copper Shim Kit For DV6500 DV6600 DV6700 DV6800 DV6900 Motherboard.  It adds a more force between the video graphics processor to keep the chip from burning up.  Like my motherboard.

[Anthony_C]

Tried the copper shim , don"t waste your money or your time because it doesn't work .....

[paparam]

press start button led's light than nothing.did these checks=press f4 on start-up *hard start *replaced MB battery*cleaned memory connection*pressed ctrl-alt-delete/start*pressed various fbuttions when start.  please help