Does anyone have a Presario 1800 laptop in the home or office? I just need the dimensions of the case. It would sure help if you could measure and post the dimensions here or email them to me. I have decided to make a dustcover for a laptop that is usually left open, and want to make one for this...

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...

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...

Just bought the s5080an model and reinstalled my own Windows XP Pro cd i bought with it. It now has a hardware problem in Windows. In Device Manager, is says there is a problem with my 'SM Bus Controller'. If anyone know how I can correct this problem your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

I need to know how I get into the bios on this computer, I cannot get the sound to work after installing Windows ME ....I have downloaded the drivers and everything from Compaq , put seem to have problems with the usb bus also. Can someone tell me how ...the delete key doesn't do it.

I have just gotten a Compaq Presario 7360 Desktop and I noticed that when I disable all my start-up items Ptsnoop and Country Selection are rechecked when I reboot, I have found that there is a trojan called ptsnoop but there also a ptsnoop program for modems with the same name, Which I have a...

Have just bought the above as a starter system for a relative, It appears to have a 300 Pentium2 cpu, 128 mb of ram and a 3.2 gb hard drive. Anyone know how big a hard drive this thing will take if I decided to upgrade? w

Does the MSA 50 storage enclosure have any firmware that can be directly upgraded? The MSA 50 manual suggests the answer is yes, but the HP page for this storage array has no firmware on it. The MSA 50 user manual points to a link on the HP web site that is broken. -- Will

HP marketed the Adaptec 2610SA as the HP 6 Port SATA RAID Controller. I looked on HP Downloads, but the Windows 2003 "driver" for this controller isn't a driver at all. The controller works under Windows XP but doesn't show up in Device Manager except as an uninstalled "RAID...

Does HP make a RAID controller for SAS/SATA that supports the use of an internal and external array concurrently? The external port on the P600 is disabled when an internal array is present. -- Will

The boot volume on a DL585 server with a SmartArray 5Si adapter is being created with a 32 sector offset. This is seen under Windows 2003 64-bit using Symantec Storage Foundation for Windows Basic 5.0. Every other device created under Windows has a 63 sector offset. Even other drives...

I have a Proliant 1850R with Windows 2000 that in Device Manager | System Devices shows a yellow error/exclamation next to: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB The Internet is loaded with users with the same error across a large number of different systems. One user reported that it was due to a...

Is someone here familiar with what is the difference between the original MSA1000 controller part number 218231-B21 and the newer version 218231-B22? Are there any reasons to avoid the older model? Are they functionally identical parts? -- Will

The service and maintenance guide for the MSA1500 shows the second controller for the MSA1500 is the MSA1000 controller. So does this mean the MSA1000 and MSA1500 controllers are identical to each other?! -- Will

One of the nice features of the 4000 series fibre channel arrays was that you could get away with using generic hotswap SCSI drives in the arrays, as long as you had Compaq trays for them. Do the newer SATA RAID arrays have the ability to use generic SATA drives in Compaq hotswap trays? -- Will

In general what has been the experience of others with the Compaq 4214R hotswap case? I've had great luck with the earlier hotswap cases that did just ultrawide, such as the Compaq U2 hotswap case (using the holder style SCSI hotswap trays). But the 4214R has proven really unreliable for...

Has anyone been successful in running 64 bit FreeBSD on the DL585? If there are any restrictions what are those? -- Will

The RA4000 and RA4100 fibre array software warns you that you cannot expand drives when they run under Windows 2000. What is the observed behavior for such cases? I tried to do it with a small sample NTFS volume I created, and it worked without any problems at all. -- Will Internet: westes at...

Does anyone have the generic Accuride rail part number that works with the DL380 / 1850R in a Compaq rack? Yes, we have the special outer Compaq rails. -- Will Internet: westes AT earthbroadcast.com

I installed eight 512MB RDIMMs (using authorized Compaq part numbers for the memory) onto a Compaq W8000 workstation. At bootup the computer BIOS is reporting only 3440 MB present. Is this a limitation of a particular BIOS release? Is it corrected by a later upgrade? Or would this indicate...