I have an issue that I've never heard of before. My laptop was dropped and stopped booting. The power light came on but nothing else happened. I checked it out till I gave up on the pulling batteries.,plugs and pushing the power button. I put it away a few months ago, last weekend I was going to...

I was given an old Armada 4130T. It has the extension base and battery handle... It appears complete and used, but not abused. I bought the correct compaq ac power adapter/recharger and it checks good at 18.75 volts... I get absolutely no sign of power from the laptop when connected to this...

I recently had a Presario 2297 follow me home. It's kind of a cute thing and makes an excellent 'smart typewriter'. Now that I've sorted out the modem issue, it's a handy backup for 'net work. My question is - how do you make it recognize more than 64 meg of memory? Thanks, John...

Hello, one question, how can I open the Presario to change the harddisk for a bigger one. Maybe through the keyboard ?? A picture would be nice. And how big could it be 32Gbytes ? I bought the 1200 second hand in usa. Thanks for answers. -- Gruß

I have not seen any activity in this group for some days. Anyone here?

Hello, I want to move my Compaq 06C4h deskpro motherboard in a ATX Aopen case. Problem is that on the compaq case there's only 1 cable to connect the power switch, reset switch, power led and HD led but in the Aopen case these are 4 different small cables wich connect the front case with...

okay well, a few days ago i turned off my monitor because i had some work to do, but i still wanted to listen to music. i had the monitor off for about 3 hours, and when i turned it back on, the color and image of the monitor was set askew and gives it a kind of trippy effect. now ive tried...

How do you update the firmware on the AIT50 Hotswap tape drive? I would prefer a Windows-based utility for doing this if one exists. The Compaq tape drive floppy set of seven floppies is just hanging on our Proliant 6400R, and I don't see a way to get it to do the upgrade correctly. -- Will

Hello, I would like to ask, how can I have access to bios setup of my pc in order to set a password? I tried already various combinations of keys (Del, F12) but nothing happened (the bios setup did not appeared. I'm doing something wrong? thnx in advance!!!

Compaq Presarios have a very limited BIOS. You may want to look into utilities that allow you to configure the card, rather than the BIOS. Also, if his AGP slot is faster (8x vs 4x for example) that would make a huge difference. Lastly, have you shut down a lot of the background programs? ...

Hi, I have “acquired” an old Compaq P3 motherboard. This has a 1 GHz processor but, sadly, no manual. The board is labeled with “Assembly no. 213855-101” and “Spare no. 203966-001” and it's the P5 connector I'm have problems with. I have a very in depth look at the HP website, but can't find any...

Hey guys can you please help me, I got a spare 5220 that i want to use for light usage and im lost about the power supply plugs into the motherboard. I do not know the order and I know that if I dont plug them in right it would shorten. Please tell me the order. The numbers behind the ones that go...

I was given three Compaq 36G hard drives by someone. They're 7200 RPM, Ultra Wide SCSI, model AA03631AC6. That plus a 9G Wide Ultra SCSI3, part number 313706-B21, model MAB3091SC. All four seem to not want to be formatted properly or have Windows install all the way. I've checked the FAQ, went...

hi, Culd it be a case of slot is 16-bit and cards are 32-bit? Is there a way to overcome this? exactly ;). And there is no waz to overcome it ;) USB is def. not possible with the LTE 5xxx. Regards,

I have an old Compaq Presario with a 466 Celeron Processor, 256 MB Ram, 12 GB Hard Drive. I have installed a USB 2 card. Would anyone know if I can use an external USB Hard drive (say 40 GB)with this computer? I understand there is a limitation on the size of an internal hard drive with older...

Hello Would anyone know if the Compaq Armada 7400 notebook can handle 2 X 256 MB Ram sticks? Having trouble getting it to recognise this configuration. -- Echy

We installed an anti-virus software. We deleted the bad files. We rebooted. At reboot we got 3 choices 1,2,3. one choice for step by step , one choice for safe mode start up and one other choice. However we get errors problem with register and memory cache. We attempt to put in boot recover disk,...

I have a compaq deskpro P2-300 with 256 ram and I am unable to get win XP to run on it. It just reboots and said it can not find the operateing system . Help

I have an old Compaq 4508 that is just sitting at my feet as I type. I was wondering if anyone knows if the mobo, powersupply, everthing inside the case could be scraped and put in a new micro-atx mobo with a slim design power supply. I have not found any specs on what the design is, but I...

Hi All, I recently purchased a new computer and want to clean up my old Compaq Presario 5838 for my daughter. It's become pretty bloated over the years so I'm going to use the Restore CDs that came with it and take it back to 'factory original'. I'm doing things like exporting my Outlook...