the HP dv6-6017tx, 6121tx, 6140tx and dv6-6165tx thread

samudragupta

samudragupta

Youngling
Friends my dv6165 is become very slow and lags and doesn't respond while opening apps and boot time is 2-3 mins. It's become very frustrating and my father is also unable to use the pc.
Can u pls suggest if I need to install an ssd? Pls provide a link for the same and some video link how to install the same. I know this is a stupid question but I'm not techy. Does the laptop have a slot for ssd or I need to remove the hdd and then install the hdd? Thx.
 
Dr. House

Dr. House

No Regrets
samudragupta said:
Friends my dv6165 is become very slow and lags and doesn't respond while opening apps and boot time is 2-3 mins. It's become very frustrating and my father is also unable to use the pc.
Can u pls suggest if I need to install an ssd? Pls provide a link for the same and some video link how to install the same. I know this is a stupid question but I'm not techy. Does the laptop have a slot for ssd or I need to remove the hdd and then install the hdd? Thx.
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You can either use both HDD and SSD just like me by removing the DVD drive or just SSD drive on the slot of your previous SSD. I recommend you to buy Samsung EVO SSDs if you're having good budget or Kingston SSD if you want 240GB in 5k.
Arrange some repairman to put that SSD and remove that old HDD. You can use that old HDD as external drive just by casing.
 
samudragupta

samudragupta

Youngling
Dr. House said:
You can either use both HDD and SSD just like me by removing the DVD drive or just SSD drive on the slot of your previous SSD. I recommend you to buy Samsung EVO SSDs if you're having good budget or Kingston SSD if you want 240GB in 5k.
Arrange some repairman to put that SSD and remove that old HDD. You can use that old HDD as external drive just by casing.
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Thanks for the answer. Can you please suggest which ram I can use to expand my existing 4gb ram. The link if possible from Amazon or flipkart
 
mukherjee

mukherjee

Treatment in progress...
Hi all,
I have been stalking this post for a while.
My 2012 vintage dv6 6165tx has its battery on its last legs. Could somebody point me to a replacement battery for it without breaking the bank? Any help is much appreciated. My work keeps me from digging deep on this, so this is my "Go To Guy"...Thanks in advance
 
Lucky_star

Lucky_star

Still Shining!
Had bought this battery from ebay about 4 months ago. Working fine. Battery backup is 4400 mAH but still lasts for about 1.5 hours.
HP Compaq Laptop Battery CQ32 CQ42 CQ62 CQ72 G32 G42 G56 G72 G62 DM4 DM4T MU06 | eBay
Comes with 6 months warranty
 
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hp_pav_

Right off the assembly line
Really good to see this thread active till now. I remember back in 2011 couple of months after India won the cricket world cup ... I was looking to buy a new Laptop which would RUN all medium-high level games for next 4 years..... I was really confused and all i could figure out as an option was Dell inspiron ( I remember i did a lot of research on choosing the laptop with best GPU in those days) which had a Nvidia 640m on it. But then it was my luck that couple of days before I decided to place an order online on Dell website, I found this place and particularly this thread. I kept reading all the comments page after page as I was very excited to find something I was really looking for. After reading all the comments (approx. 30-35 pages back then) I finally decided to go for this beast... (the thread started with 6017 model and it was later replaced with 6121tx). I went to nearest store and bought this beast for 50k.


Since then I have replaced its HDD (Toshiba 640 GB to WD 1TB in 2013, RAM 4 gb to 8 GB 2012 . Recently my stock hynix 4gb got damaged so I got a new corsair Value select 4 GB, 1 new original battery back in 2014, 1 Fan ) A total of around 10k additional in next 5 years.... and I must say it still runs the same as it did back in 2011. (not to forget free Windows 10 pro upgraded now).

I am facing some problems with new 4gb Ram this one >> (Corsair Memory — 4GB DDR3L SODIMM Memory (CMSO4GX3M1C1600C11)) and I have a second ram (Corsair Memory — 4GB DDR3 SODIMM Memory (CMSO4GX3M1A1600C11)) previously installed.

As soon as i installed the new ram... my system starts off well ... it runs for good 15 mins and then suddenly screen starts to flicker with RGB lines and system shuts down. I did some google searches regarding the issue and found that it could be a mismatch of RAM timings or voltages.

I can see the voltages are different 1.35 and 1.5 volt. Also Tested Latency is slightly different (you can check the specs of both RAM for the above link). Can you suggest what can be the possible reason behind this fluctuations and how can I over come it without replacing RAM.

I can't find option to under/over volt the RAM in the BIOS menu. Please suggest the best possible solution.

(P.S. Its been 2 days now and I am no more facing this issue. But I would still like to understand what might be the reason behind this problem. I remember i only swapped the RAM slots and I think that helped.)
 
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Gourav Kundu

Journeyman
I have no idea what is wrong with my HP DV6-6165tx. Whenever I try to run MS office the temperature gets high as Hell. Forget about gaming (I am afraid that the motherboard might burn if I play power/gfx hungry games on it)!!. I have already cleaned the laptop, part by part, replaced the previously applied thermal paste with Noctua NT-H1 (I had purchased this thermal paste in April 2015 and applied it only twice including this time) and cleared the dust blocked ventilation holes near the fan. But nothing helped. I have no idea what i should do now. Earlier the maximum temperature it used to go was 85-90 but now it crosses 90c even when running simple programs like MS WORD. Kindly help. OVERHEAT.JPG
 
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fz8975

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Gourav Kundu said:
I have no idea what is wrong with my HP DV6-6165tx. Whenever I try to run MS office the temperature gets high as Hell. Forget about gaming (I am afraid that the motherboard might burn if I play power/gfx hungry games on it)!!. I have already cleaned the laptop, part by part, replaced the previously applied thermal paste with Noctua NT-H1 (I had purchased this thermal paste in April 2015 and applied it only twice including this time) and cleared the dust blocked ventilation holes near the fan. But nothing helped. I have no idea what i should do now. Earlier the maximum temperature it used to go was 85-90 but now it crosses 90c even when running simple programs like MS WORD. Kindly help.View attachment 16797
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Try a different software to read temps and post
 
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sarthak

In the zone
rider said:
How many of you guys using dv6 2011? Mine is working fine from 6 years now!
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Mine too, but it has become very slow, either due to HDD getting old or because of the OS (last reformatted 4-5 years back). I'm pleasantly surprised that it has lasted this long, especially considering that it would run for 12-18 hours daily for 4 years when I was in college.
 
sachin99

sachin99

Broken In
rider said:
How many of you guys using dv6 2011? Mine is working fine from 6 years now!
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I am still using my 6121tx for games, parallel programming and stuff! Works like a charm. Have spent a few bucks(approx 10k) on battery, fan, keyboard replacement and RAM upgrades. No sluggishness whatsoever!!
 
Dr. House

Dr. House

No Regrets
Changed damaged HDD, battery and RAM and everything is working great. Not playing games though, good enough for daily use work. hp rocks!!
 
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Gourav Kundu

Journeyman
My experience with Hp dv6-6165tx is worst. So far i have replaced the keyboard twice, added extra RAM twice and the new one stopped working recently. DVD writer is dysfunctional. Graphics Drivers messed up after upgrading to Windows 10. Temperature hits 90c+ on running heavy applications even after cleaning everything and replacing the thermal paste multiple times. USB 3.0 (if it was, it was just mentioned super fast usb) does not work properly. Battery life ended so purchase a new one and that too is about to expire soon.
What I am doing with the laptop these days:
Web browsing and media playback.
I have spent 15k plus till now and it is my biggest regret buying this machine. I also have hp desktop which is 11 years old and i have spent thousand of rupees on that as well. Never going back to hp ever.
 
Prongs298

Prongs298

In the zone
25nov2019, 0137hrs

I still have the hp dv6 6121tx.
I got this in the middle of October 2011.
Till July of 2017 this was my primary computer.

Then I got a pentium g4560 and Nvidia gtx 1060 3gb.

I am currently using the laptop for encoding videos in handbrake.
I have taken out the battery.
The battery is in poor condition after all these years.
Holds maybe 10 minutes of juice.

The i7 2630 qm runs at 2 ghz with a temperature of 94c.
This is with performance optimized mode in cool sense.

Still using windows 7 and with 6 gb of ram.
Hdd was replaced sometime in 2015 with a wd 500gb.
Thermal paste was changed sometime in January 2017.

Except for the usual driver issues that plagued the AMD switchable graphics systems in general, the laptop has been rock solid.

The only thing that can be said to have gone bad is the enter key on the numpad.
The key gets pressed by itself and stays pressed.
But I chalk that to regular wear and tear and no maintenance and cleaning of the keyboard on my end.
I have taken the keycap off and that has solved it.
Will clean the key and put the cap back once my 24x7 encoding run ends.

After this I will put in a 240gb ssd, maybe some ram, maybe another ssd in the DVD drive area.

If anyone is still using their dv6 and need some help or assistance please let us know.
 

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