Hi guys, Yerstaday something weired happened to my laptop ( which has happened before too). It turns ON but just with a black screen. I removed the RAM and put it back in and it started working fine. It was working fine and then when i was going to sleep, i turned it off. This black screen...

I have a Comaq Presario 2195 laptop that has a broken power jack. I went to a computer shop today inquiring as to how much it would cost to replace the broken power jack. The tech told me that they've had bad luck with replacing the power jacks, but that they'd put in a pig tail connector. The...

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Ok, I installed the PIII 933, and that works as well as can be expected, however I have a problem with the ram upgrade. I have a 256MB SDRAM, 32x64 PC133 168 Pin chip, and it doesn't work. What is up with that? I don't even make it to the bios during boot with this chip in. If I stick in the crummy...

Hi, I have a Compaq Armada 1540DM computer, running NT Terminal Server and Windows ME on the same drive. My problem was when I first got the laptop, it used to be able to boot from a cd. Then, here's me being stupid, I downloaded an old BIOS update and replaced a new BIOS update with an old one...

Neighbor is having issues with his presario 5200. The PC takes about 15 minutes to get to a desktop and after picking thru registry/ccleaner/adaware etc, I want to restore his C drive to windows factory settings from the D partition. I haven't messed with Compaq recovery CD's in a lot of years...

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Had a power surge during an electrical storm and it got the PSU in my Presario s6010v (hopefully that's all). Looking for a replacement for this. The one that came with the system is a Bestec ATX-250-12z. I have a Bestec ATX-250-12e that I had taken out of a spare emachine T2040 that I have....

.... if I don't have Lightscribe-compatible disks? My computer maker and the makers of my software seem to want me to be running sh*tloads of startup programs which do things like checking if anything has an upgrade or they make a program I run once a month load faster and as a result everything...

Hi I have a problem in my compaq 3000 presario laptop. My screen has gone blank and it did not display anything. But the system is working fine and i can see very light monitor display. very very light. Can any one tell me how to bring back to its original display.

Need QuickRestore CD numbers 2, 3 and 4 for the Compaq Presario 6350US. TIA Claude

Looking for a new motherboard for a Compaq Presario S6010V. The one that came with it is a MS-6577 M-ATX Rev. 3.1 Giovani. This exact model is not available anymore. Not really wanting to upgrade, just a comparable replacement for the original. Any suggestions? Thank you!

Hi all I have an Evo N800V and it is very sick. Every alternate vertical line is dead and it has a blue tint to what's left and it is unusable at full native resolution The LCD is a 15" 1400x1050 part number 286871-001 Having done a lot of research and substituting of parts, I have diagnosed...

My friend has a Compaq desktop that has no USB. It's old and has a floppy drive and cd player, but not a cd burner. She wants to get files off the computer to send to someone else, but they don't have a floppy drive. Is there a product out there that she can get to make a USB attach to her computer...

I have a DeskPro EN MOBO with a 24 pin power connector. This is not wired as a standard ATX. Does anyone have the pin-out information so I can rewire a standard ATX? Thank you. -- Remove -NOSPAM- to contact me.

Hi every 1 im the kind of person that likes to screw with peoples minds a bit. so i was wondering if there was something i could install, or if i coud edit the boot.ini file so i could boot from 2000 or 3.1 if so where can i get it and what els do i need? im guessing i need dos. -- devin1100

Hello Everyone, A co-worker asked me to take a look at at their Presario 1200 because it wasn't booting up anymore. They kept getting a message "Operating System not found". I thought that it was a simple case of the operating system needing to be re-installed. But to my frustration I am still...

Hello! Recently my laptop's left hinge has broken off the rest of the laptop, and I'd like to repair it myself if possible. I have already purchased new hinges, but I can't seem to find a guide on replacing hinges for this model...I was wondering if anybody could point me in the right direction?...

I got a used Compaq Presario SX4300NX for cheap, the hard drive is going bad. It has XP Home on old hard drive. I would like to restore XP home back to original, but I do not have the restore cd's. IF I can recover the data of the old drive, and copy to a new working hard drive can I make a set of...

I have Norton 360 installed on a presario s4200nx & it is slowing the pc down alot. Which antivirus & firewall would you recommend using? I have been thinking about trying Avg free & Zone Alarm. And,what's the best way to remove all of the Norton? Thanks!