Last night I hurriedly went to connect the psu cable to my 2178ea and put it in another port by mistake. There was a slight crackle and the computer is now dead with none of the power indicator lights on. I want to salvage the contents of the hard drive and assume it wont be affected. Do I need to...

I have a compaq presario model no. SR.5160 and my processor is core 2 duo and my operating system is xp professional My problem is I have a software which supports only win 95. In this situation how to slove my problem.. Kindly adivice in this regard Thanking you

Hi there! I just got a pretty old Compaq Deskpro config, really nothing special, approxx 1,3 GHz, 128 RAM, everything else integrated, and with a small HDD. the box wasn'tg opened, so the computer was untouched for like five years. i tried to turn it on, but nothing happened...

My Compaq Presario (SR1 299AN) is so LOUD! The computer fans often turn on, and the sound can be overwhelming. I'm not sure why, but it particularly goes nuts when I open microsoft word and type manually - and I'm forced to type because the racket drowns out dragon naturally speaking ( I have RSI...

Machine is old Presario 7599 desktop. Milk was spilled on keyboard while computer was running. Plugged in new keyboard and system was locked up. After powering off and attempting to restart, the Compaq splash screen shows up on the monitor, and a flashing cursor in upper left corner. This stays...

Hello I have a Compaq Presario 2100 (2126EA). When I turn the laptop on (with external power on), the fan starts up , cdrom spins 1-2 sec.. The power button is lighting blue. After three sec. the I/O led is blinking, like the laptop is in sleep-mode, the fan is off. Nothing happes on the screen. ...

how can i open the back case of my compaq presario m2000?

how can i open the back case of my compaq presario m2000?

Hi, I moved to a smaller home (the end of last year) and am liquidating most of my collection of working vintage computers and classic game consoles (http://stores.ebay.com/AmericanAuctionGallery) I am slow at getting it posted on eBay but you can drop me a line if you have a special interest...

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Hello everyone ! I have an motherboard from a Compaq Presario Desktop PC 7EL7000T-131. I have tryed to find a manual or some information regarding the "LED-Connectors" on this MOBO. Can anybody help or know an URL for this ?!. I would be so happy, send an ice-cream and a couple of shorts...

bought a PCI video board to extend the life of 7594. it has on board video now. is there a jumper for disabling the builtin video like there is for audio? if so where is it. or is it done thru the bios? any help is appreciated. thanks in advance

Spoke to one of HPs Road Warriors today. Helped him get set-up for some sales event on the road and what not. He (an reportedly his coworkers) are really happy with their brand new HP laptops. No surprise there, given every sales guy loves a new toy, but the when I asked about the OS, it wasn't...

I have never saw this before. I have had an old, outdated, yet perfectly good working c500 compaq. I don't remember the model, but lately, something happened while my niece was using it. she is a young little tot, and only goes on the computer to use the paint program. Well, one day, it...

I am trying to upgrade a HP pavillion a400y. Spec says it can take PC2700 up to 2GB with max of 1GB per slot. Right now i have 256MB installed PC2700 DDR. When i look in the bios it says installed memory 256MB/PC2100, mem bank 1 n/a mem bank 2 250MB/DDR When i add the 1GB DDR PC2700 the memory...

I'm trying to use one of these..... It has the original SCSI drive installed. (About 4 GB) When I plug in an IDE drive to the "primary" IDE connector it is recognized. But the machine insists on trying to boot from it. The boot order feature in the setup program can't seem to...

I am trying to help my young grandson with his laptop. Windows will not open. I get a screen for booting in safe mode but it won't boot. A blue screen flashes by so quickly I can't see what it is. I've tried restoring defaults and testing the HDD, which tested ok. How can I get to the command...

Howdy: I've got a neighbors Compaq Presario here that just plain refused to let me repair it. I put the Compaq Operating System CD into the drive and go through the repair process just fine until it gets to the "Installing Devices" window at about 34 minutes left and it stalls there for about five...

Help? DOS software does not run properly. WHen you hit Shirt-Alt-Enter, Windows should take you to a full screen DOS mode. I have two problems on an Evo (1) Somes up in text mode using just the central 640x480 pixels of

I have a Compaq nx6115 laptop. When I press the power button, the fan whirs for about a second, and the hard drive access light comes on. Then it cuts out (fan shuts down) and then this is repeated about fifteen times. Eventually it stops doing this and the fan stays on, but no hard drive...