Hi all, when you plug the power adapter into the laptop, the screen gets brighter, when you remove it dims. This is part of the power conservation settings. On the older M700 laptops, you were able to switch this off using the drivers downloaded from Compaq/HP. The drivers from Compaq/HP for...

The other day my Compaq Presario 2195us did not wanted to charge the battery or operate plugged in. It started when sometimes, while plugged, it will suddenly go in battery, after some movement of the plug, it again charged. But one time suddenly, it just stopped charging, and it wouldn't operate...

I have recently acquired four of the above servers and would like to resell them. Can anyone give me some ideas of how to go about this? Does anyone know a reseller, etc?

Hello, i installed on my Contura Aero (12MB Ram) WIN95. Now under Equipment manager/Other components i found Question mark infront of "PCMCIA-Cardservices". Where can i found a driver for this servies? greetings from germany heiko

Hey all. I just picked up an E500 on ebay. I'm testing it and see that the display is shrunken. It has no OS yet. When it boots, it gives the full screen Compaq name, but then in BIOS or DOS it is only has a 4x5" display in the middle of the screen. What might be causing that? Thanks, Steve

Whenever I turn on my computer, I can here the hard drive running but the LCD stays black. I ordered a new hard drive because I wanted more space anyway and thought it might help the problem. It didn't. What's up with my computer? Thanks.

I asked about upgrading my laptop from ME awhile back. When I bought the laptop it had ME installed on it. It also has the hotswapping floppy drive/CD-DVD drive. ME stinks and I wanted to go to XP. Following some good advice, I bought a new harddrive and XP Pro. I replaced the hard drive, booted...

Depends if you can do it yourself? It is really actually very easy to do You can most likely get a MB or partial (bottom half) on Ebay for fairly cheap. We refurbish many IBM laptops in this manner Good luck

Hi: I just installed a 2.0 USB PCI card. My 1.1 devices work fine through the card, but the Lacie 2.0 USB 250GB HD is not recognized by the computer. If I plug the HD into a 1.1 port, the computer can see the drive. The card was bought at compusa.com- it's an ALI. Installing the drivers didn't...

I have a Rage Pro Turbo AGP 4Mb graphics card and would like to upgrade it. It seems only certain cards will fit but I don't know which ones. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks John

I need a free restore disk, my computer was given to me and I have no disks at all, I have a virus that has infected almost everything on my computer can anyone help? -- Devoted

Hi All, I have a Preserio S4300NX. The motherboard is a OEM of Asus P4SD-LA. It comes with a P4 2.4 GHz HT CPU. I would like to upgrade the CPU perhaps to P4 3.2E Prescott with 1M of cache. I emailed Compaq/HP support ask the question and the answer I got back is "To upgrade your Compaq...

I have a presario 6420nx that I am very fond of. It is running the AMD 2200+ 1.8, and I have a 2600+ 2.13 laying around. I wonder, would it be a problem to swap this in? Will there be BIOS or CMOS issues?

Got the service Pack crap SP4 on a Windows 2000 server had the BSOD cycle until I found it was the Network Cards..(both) causing it.. If I boot in Safe Mode and disable then boot, activate on of the cards, then reboot its OK for a few hours or min.. than crashes again this is a Proliant ML 530...

I have an older Presario 5240 running Windows 2000. I understand that Compaq doesn't support Win 2K, but it runs well for the most part. The only problem I have at the moment is that when I opt for either DOS or the Recovery Console during startup, I lose the keyboard. Is there a fix for this?

Due to an 1801 Microcode patch error, I believe I need to reflash the bios in my Compaq Deskpro 933, but obviously want to make sure I d/l the correct bios. Looking at the HP/Compaq site it's not clear to me how to determine this. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.

OK, I had to change the system BIOS settings in order to upgrade my sound card - and now the damn video card doesn't work. It's an AGP GeForce 5600 - and no matter what I do, I can't get it to use it. It's nothing to do with the sound card, either - it does this same degree of nothing, even when...

I bought one of thse computers as a spare and not now it is giving me a wierd problem.. I restored everything and it worked great for two days. I come up to the black screen and wants to restore it again. So I restore it. Everything is greast for a couple of days and then it comes up to the...

Hi I am looking for pin assigment of aramada 1575 battery pin assignement. It is the same for all Armada 1500 serie. My battery is HS and I cant do some measurement. Battery pins looks :

:confused:I was trying to retrieve pictures from a memory card from my digital camera, and I put the memory card in the slot, the green light lit up and nothing happened. I took the memory card out and the green light stayed on, the computer is only about 5 months old. The green light will not go...