Purchased a new Presario desktop 45 days ago big box store. DVD burner - lightscribe - is flaky. I'd like HP to send me new one. Anyone care to comment? As for social engineering, this I *can* do.

Circuit City has a 3 day sale 12/15/05 - 12/17/05 onthe following laptap. Would appreciate any comments on it's reliability and performance. Thanks. Compaq Presario Notebook PC (M2305NR) Great for school and office: The AMD Mobile Sempron™ 2800+ processor (1.6GHz) and 512MB of DDR memory...

I have a two year old Compaq Presario S7150. Up until now I have had no problems at all with it. However about a week ago it started doing odd things. As soon as I applied mains power the power light on the front panel would flash, as would the power light on the PSU. The flashing was accompanied...

I cannot enter the BIOS setup holding down the F10 key. ??? /|\

If I replace my hard disk, can I simply use the restore CD's kit to reinstall everything or do I need to pass trhough a special process because of a tatooed disk or anything else?

I would like to know if someone have the same problem . can't adjust the amount of memory for the video card. with 256mb it goes to 32mb , 512mb to 64mb , 1gig is still 64mb and 2gig is still 64mb i can't adjust in bios using f 1 at startup or using f 11 .got frustrated and call them the pc is...

I have recently obtained a compaq deskpro 1.4 GHz (which I believe is an EXS) and I am trying to add a new video card which requires a more powerful power supply than the stock one. I purchased a new 500W PS, but quickly realized that compaq sucks and they use a proprietary power supply. I have...

Compatibility at 4x seems assured, but are there any gotchas about which I should have concerns? Thanks. ------- System: Deskpro EX P3/800, CPU upgraded with Intel SL6BY Tualatin to P3/1.4Ghz/512K L2 cache, (latest) 686P0/2.04g BIOS, 512Mb RAM, Win98SE

OKay I have 2 compaq computers: Presario ???? and Deskpro 6000. I want to put linux on them but they won't boot to CD. So I try to get into bios... but it is some crappy bios that compaq made so I don't know how to change the boot sequence. Is there any way there is a real bios like Award... or...

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

Yes they should work. There is little difference between Win 95 and Win 98SE in the programming interface for drivers... Ben Myers On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:07:55 -0800, Arnold wrote: Will the presario drivers, video, modem, sound for models 16xx for win95 work with win98SE?...

Hi All, Just bought a non working system which needed a new HDD. I picked up a nice 40GB on eBay and installed it in the bay. I don't really know much about the restore disc's or how to use one and because I didn't get one with the system I was trying to boot an OEM copy from the CD drive....

Anyone out there have Windows 2000 drivers for the Presario 17XL3 internal card? I believe it's a NIC/modem combo but Compaq doesn't list any drivers on its web site. This an old laptop that originally came with Windows 98 as far as I know. -- Herb Stein

Hi, I have a compaq presario 1688 with a screen that has lines on the upper part of the screen. I also have 1200 with a good screen that I can use for parts to replace the screen and was just wondering if the 1200 parts comatible with the 1688. Just wondering if anybody replaced a 1688 screen with...

I just used the system restore cd that came with my computer (Compaq Presario 5000 Series.) I used it to restore my computer to it's "as shipped" condition. Anyway, this computer is five years old. It has a dvd rom drive and a cd rw drive. After re-installing Windows I put in a couple of dvd's...

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...

I just purchased an HP(Compaq) W8000 from Ebay. Once I received it, I plugged it in, and turned it on. The fan on the back turned on, and the light on the front turned on, but nothing else. 8 minutes later, I hear the typical beep, then the pc begins to boot and appeared fine. I've tried it a...

I have a Compaq Presario desktop 5834. I want to upgrade it the best I can. I know nothing about upgrading motherboards and processors, but I have added memory (128 for a total of 196), a PCI video card, an Ethernet card, and a TV tuner/capture card. This is what I would like to do and if you...

I have a Compaq 5330us desktop and the onboard graphics card is going bad. I also want to add a DVD Recorder. As this computer is about 4 years old, is it worth getting a different graphics card and recorder or just buying a new computer?