I have a Compaq Presario 4640 and I have the original Restore Disk. But I cant read the serial number from the side of the computer. The sticker is slightly torn and I cant read all the numbers. Can someone please provide me with a serial number for the Compaq Presario 4640. It comes with a...

Hi there, a friend gave me some old Compaq Armada 7400 Laptop. Unfortunately without an ac adaptor. Since i am a bit into electronics i thought of building my own adaptor. Thus i need to know the pin assignment of the 4 PIN Connector on the Laptop. Compaq told me it is a ISO EN60320 / IEC 320...

So I go to the new Napster website and it says Napster doesn't support my operating system - Windows Millennium. Last week I go to that Apple i-toons site and it says it supports Windows XP and 2000 or something, but no mention of Windows ME. So how in the heck am I supposed to start paying for...

I have a compaq presario 5220 and need to upgrade the memory. Will the following...

I have installed windows xp on my friends compaq 5221. which works ok, but slow. Memory will be upgraded and hopefully speed up windows a bit. My question concerns the installing or configuration of special keyboard functions which currently don't work after the installation of XP. Is there a...

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HH Wrote: You got Fast Page Mode SIMMs, right? Not EDO. 8MB of EDO is soldered on the motherboard, but the added SIMMs must be Fast Page Mode RAM. Did you try reseating the new SIMMs? Try just 2 of them? HH "The Ghost" wrote in message ...

Hi all, I bought a Compaq R3000 laptop (Amd athlon 64 3000+ cpu) a few months ago. I figured I'd get some issues I've been having cleared up. 1. Sometimes (very rarely, but it does happen), I get my keyboard into a state where capslock is backwards, and 'Enter' doesn't work. I bash around a...

Very slow to boot, nothing on Control Panel functional (so no diagnostics), suggestions from the group?? System had been unexpectedly shutting down after running ~1 hour - but now doing better (up 5 hours) after removing cover and vacuuming out years of dust. Does this Compaq require "Compaq...

need some help... this laptop has a detachable "wedge" containing the DVD/CD drive and the 3.5" floppy drive. Although it has no problem reading cd's, it will only play a DVD for the first 10 minutes or so, then locks up and won't even find the disk until the system has cooled off for an hour...

I know you guys will hate me, but I am installing 98 on a presario 2200 for my mother-in-law, don't have any original software for this thing, checked on compaq site couldn't find anything, need video, modem, and sound drivers, can anyone help......

Hi Guys, Does anyone know where I can get hold of a User manual for a Compaq Presario 1234 online? I have searched the Compaq site and I can find manuals for extra bits like Blurtooth but not the manual for the actual laptop. Any clues? Cheers, Steve

This is a post to document problems I had installing Windows XP on an old Compaq Presario 7461 (but probably applies to other models). 1. Install Windows XP goes through first stage (copy from CD to hard-disk) the fails to reboot. Basically both the hard-drive and the CD-ROM were wired to the...

what OS? did you just upgrade to broadband? "John" wrote in message ... My Compaq Presario is demanding a password to log on eventhough I never set a log -on password. What can I do?I upgraded from Me a few months ago.I am the only...

Does anyone here have the number to the Compaq Corporate offices? I just got off the phone with the sales department regarding my order that I received for the multiport WLAN, she refused to give me the phone number and then said she would transfer me to the "Welcome Center", she transfers me and...

I wrote an earlier message regarding overclocking this machine. Thanks for the suggestions. This machine runs XP very well and since there is no chance of overclocking this is there a way to put a faster Celeron processor in it, would it recognize it and run at the new speed? There doesn't seem...

I bought my mother a secondhand HP Ombibook Xe2 last year. Big mistake. After a few weeks the left side of the screen is out. If I squeze the bottom part of the screen it might come on, but after a while that stopped doing the trick. Is there anything I can do to fix that?

From: Subject: Compaq Deskpro 6000 Case Date: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:30 PM Can someone tell me where to find a case for a Compaq Deskpro 6000 computer. I have a motherboard with all the hardware except a case. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Try...

Hi again and thanks for your feedback to my question. To answer your question regarding the type of expansion cards that I have that I'd like to put in that system.... one is an ATI video capture card, another one is one that provides me with usb 2.0 ports and I also have a basic scsi...

I have a Evo D310v computer with a MS-6541 motherboard. I recently upgraded processor from a p4 1.8 to a p4 2.8. I need to find a bios update so the processor steps properly. Please help.