So i have an old dv6000 series laptop with the ever so awesome black screen problem.. been fixed before but it stopped working again after another year..

anyone here have experience in fixing these pieces of crap?

https://www.facebook.com/LuckyDragonComputers

Daniel Brent is the owner, and a good guy.

why not just buy a dift computer?

Buy a new one.... it will be cheaper in the long run...

This is very true. Laptops (and electronics in general) have a life span of 3-5 years. If your laptop is more than a couple of years old (and I suspect it is), it's cheaper in the long run to just buy a new one, plus you'll get the advantage of one or more Moore's Law cycles having passed, which means for the same price-ish you paid for your now old crappy one, you can get one that's substantially faster, more memory, larger hard drive, bigger and/or better screen, etc.

Keep checking http://www.woot.com for deals on laptops, I think I've bought my last 2-3 there, including a very nice Asus tablet I bought to replace my wife's crappiest laptop with.

Buy a new one. Office depot/staples clearance, Lenovo outlet, dell outlet and troll slickdeals.

Even working, but non-current, laptops have essentially no resale or trade-in value, so I like to read articles such as these to gather ideas how to repurpose the laptops/desktops that are no longer primetime:
http://lifehacker.com/top-10-ways-to-repurpose-your-old-laptop-1522986846
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/8_practical_uses_your_old_laptop
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454182,00.asp
http://www.intelfreepress.com/news/14-new-uses-for-your-old-laptop/4414

Maybe one without a working screen could be set up to be a music player that would autostart that function whenever it's turned on.

I keep hoping someone will do an Instructable on how to use an old laptop as one of those aiming devices the Army's been testing . . . .

If you're going new, I recommend Costco just for the automatic 2 year warranty.

I fix old laptops all the time (not necessarily volunteering to fix the OP's). Hardware issues cost money, with old laptops these are almost always hard drives or screens (as is the OP's case). My rule with either is, if you can afford a new machine, do so! Swapping hard drives and copying all data is a PITA. Screen failures suck because they tend to just come right back.

I got out of the fixit biz as I got tired of cleaning cat hair out of computers, educating people on how to take care of them, etc. I'm kind of glad for the smartphone and tablet revolution since it's brought it all down to the lowest common denominator. Desktop and laptop PCs are freakin' complex machines only a couple steps removed from command line machines that your average Wal-Mart shopping neckbeard couldn't comprehend (no judgment here, no...). Desktops especially have gone back to the enthusiasts which is awesome.

Software issues are easy enough (quit with the porn, warez, and clickbait sites for starters).

I went down this road once.

I was given a laptop with a shattered screen, and one of the support arms was bent.
It was a HP DV6500 series and was fairly new on the market at the time.

I bought a replacement screen from a local computer shop. They had to order the screen in.
Paid like $250 for the screen I think.
Stripped down the computer, fixed the arm, fired it back up. Ran fine.
Still running 5 years later...

If I had to do it with an out of date computer...I would buy a new one.
You can get stuff on sale at Wally world for $299-$399 pretty regularly.
Plus there is the issue of finding the part.

You can try hooking up an external monitor and shooting the screen over to it. Function f4 I think it is.
That would at least let you see what your are doing while you recover what ever you need from it.
Back it up to a flash drive, and sell it on Craigs list for parts...$100 working cpu / Bad screen.

yea we have decided to go with a new unit, its not financially viable anymore to repair it after thinking about it.