Hi. I have a lovely Hp Pavilion dv6500 notebook computer. It has been rendered useless by some failure in the internal power supply circuitry. It will boot for about 60 seconds, then abruptly switch off. A known good alternative power supply mains pack does the same thing, so it is internal to the machine.
I have followed an excellent tutorial online, and pulled the notebook to bits, looking for a broken power socket pcb track, cold solder, etc, and also looked for obvious signs of fault, finding none. I cleaned all the cooling fan tunnels, ports etc.
The system ran fine on it's battery, but with no power input, the battery went flat.
I would like to at least use the machine in a non-portable application, so would be happy to run it by removing the battery, and hot-wiring the required voltages to the battery input to the computer. Here is my problem. I cannot find details of the pin-outs of that connection. I need to convince the HP that a real battery is connected.
Any tips, or complete solutions, gratefully received.
I have followed an excellent tutorial online, and pulled the notebook to bits, looking for a broken power socket pcb track, cold solder, etc, and also looked for obvious signs of fault, finding none. I cleaned all the cooling fan tunnels, ports etc.
The system ran fine on it's battery, but with no power input, the battery went flat.
I would like to at least use the machine in a non-portable application, so would be happy to run it by removing the battery, and hot-wiring the required voltages to the battery input to the computer. Here is my problem. I cannot find details of the pin-outs of that connection. I need to convince the HP that a real battery is connected.
Any tips, or complete solutions, gratefully received.