Hi folks, I'm having a couple of problems with my new (well, just bought) AP400 700Mhz. F10 doesn't work to enter setup - I can't enter setup at all. I have installed the Compaq diagnostics setup into its own partition from the Softpaq floppies, but nothing happens. All I get is the word 'setup'...

Sorry for the OT, but this is an odd question at best and I looking to solicit an answer from the best sources I know of. For business reasons, I am looking for an adapter so that a VGA monitor (15 Pin) can be connected to an older PC using EGA Video (9 Pin). Not sure such an item exist, but I...

I have a 1625 that has no video output, either at the lcd or at the monitor port.... Would this be a bad interface or is it the motherboard... When it tries to post all I get is a series of beeps, one and then three beeps and then it repeats... Compaq is no help... I have the ability to disassmble...

Hi I have a problem with my armada 3500 When a power on i have to compaq logo but nothing else. Notebook make continuous beep, but seem to search something on diskette and hard drive ... If i power on with FN + F11, he don't beep for 5 secondes but does nothing too. Any tip for that ? Thanks

Hello All, I have a Compaq Presario 5184 AMD K62 380 with 128 megs ram I would like to do a clean/fresh install of Windows XP Professional. The problem is this system is not bootable via CDrom or floppy but will only boot with the restore disk. I have checked the BIOS as well. Anyone know where I...

My PC is a few years old and came with JBL Pro speakers. There seems to be a loose wire but I don't know if these speakers can be opened so I can repair it. Would anyone know? And how to do it. Thank-you

Does anyone know why both my Compaq and My daughters Advent both refuse to write to dvd+rs, even though mine is dvd+rw and daughter's is +/-? Both machines see new discs as full with zero information on them. Thanks in advance, Phil.

This problem has a long history that I will try to abbreviate. I once had occasional random error message, I called Circuit City Extended Warranty people (evil evil evil) and they had me reformat(?) and restore my pc. Oops, I quickly realized that process had lost my drivers for video , sound, and...

Hi, Was going something wrong in here, so I have to send again. I have still two questions about a presario 2210, hope somebody can give some help. 1. At the moment my display runs on " high colour, 16 bits ". Is this the highest quality possible for the videocard on the

Hi to all, I have a Compaq TFT 450 flat panel monitor and the lowest part of my screen is becomming gray. Is someone familiar with this and how can I solve it ( or do I have to buy me a new one (!) ). Regards, Guus Kramer The Netherlands Please reply on

I have a Compaq Armada 1700 that originally had a 4 gig harddrive I just recently purchased a used 20 gig harddrive and installed it. After formating it and reinstalling the software it seemed to be alright. It even restarted fine. But when I turned the power all the way off and turned it on again...

hi all, having trouble disabling devices in bios setup.. devices are disabled, ie integrated sound and LAN but when XP loads it is still picking up the devices and installing them the machines exact model is presario 5640AU anyone seen this before?? any tips or resources gratefully rec'd thanks...

Hi, I've a Compaq P4 1.7Ghz with the Spider-S motherboard. I run WinXP pro. Recently, I bought a new graphics card, a HIS ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP). Problem is that it's impossible to have it installed. Windows says that the card isn't installed properly and won't be able to use it correctly. Greatful...

What is the maximum hard drive size recognized by an old Compaq 5147? I don't suppose the mobo supports ATA drives, does it? There is currently an 8 Gig drive in the owner's machine and I have not actually seen the machine. TIA

I am trying to build a Linux mailserver out of one of these machines but at a cold boot I get a message that the machine has noted the two drives and I must hit F1 to save these. I do so and the screen goes black and a moment later the lilo boot takes off just fine. I have gone into setup (F10)...

Anyone can tell what is the sound chipset on the desktop ?

HistoryFan wrote: I'm asking this question on behalf of my uncle who is mostly computer illiterate. He has a Compaq Deskpro computer. Running Windows 98SE, Celeron 333Mhz processor, 192MB of RAM, 3.1GB hard drive, 56K modem and NIC card. A couple of days ago,...

Hello everybody, concerning to my thread from 5. October the CMOS error message (WARNING - CMOS CHECKSUM INVALID - LOADING USER DEFAULTS) of this Laptop occurs because of an empty Resume Battery (I didn´t know that there are 2 internal batteries in the LTE 5xxx). Now i want to open the Laptop and...

I have an old Presario I am trying to upgrade for a training project for a beginner. The original factory install of Win 95 was ok but all the other stuff just took up HD space. I want to install a version of Win 98se or another Win 95 (legal copies). I ran fdisk and format to the HD. Now on...

I have an old Compaq Series 3200 all-in-one computer (486 generation) where the motherboard, etc. sit in a rack below the monitor. The rack slides into a frame and all connections are at a multiplug on the front inside. I was wondering if anyone knows whether the monitor can be used by itself. ...