Hello, Me and another guy are looking for a rom upgrade for the portable II which allows you to use a 1.44m 3 1/2 floppy drive. The manual says that rom N3 or greater will do this. I have an eprom burner so we only need the image. Thanks a lot and hope to hear good news soon. Ralph

Does anyone have a quick recovery disk for a compaq presario 1610? Compaq does not manufacture them anymore and I need one. My mother gave me her laptop so I can use it to write to her while I am away at school, but the thing has crashed and she lost the disk along time ago. Please anyone, if you...

I want my AP400 Compaq Workstation to automaticaly turn on again after the power failure. Currently, when the power comes back, the computer does not start - even if it was running before the failure. I have to manually press the power button to start it again. I have read in the manuals that it...

a friend gave me a presario 1277 laptop the other day and it wont turn on. the green light in the front is on, but it doesnt say the battery is charging and when i push the power button, nothing happens!! does anyone have a clue what i did wrong or could someone please tell me how to fix it??!!...

Deskpro EX/P3-1.4Ghz/120Gb/Win98SE ATI 9600XT AGP video One PCI slot occupied as noted below Replaced an Intel 12041 based 10TX PCI NIC with a Compaq 177454-001 (identifies as an Accton 1207D) 10/100TX Fast Ethernet PCI NIC which throws a 100% repeatable Windows Protection Error (no other error...

Hi, my Armada M700 stopped working. I shut it down and when i tried to restart a few days later it was dead. When I restart, only the Battery-LED is flashing 8 times. Nothing else happens. I tried to start only on battery and even without battery but the effect is always the same. Any...

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?...

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...

Does anyone have the recovery CDs for a Presario S5200NX?

After a re-partitioning, formatting, and reloading of the hard disk I am unable to change the video resolution above 640x480. The colors will display up to "True Color" however. All the drivers were downloaded from Compaq support site. The system: Presario 7470 Desktop WD 20GB HDD (single FAT32...

I have a Presario 5834 which I got free from a friend who no longer had use for it. It came with two "Quick Restore" disks and some MS Encarta encyclopedia disks. Win98 SE. Apparently, when the system was brand new, it also came with MS Office 2000 disks. The friend did not give me the Office...

I had to replace my hard drive and do a restore. Now when I shut down, I get the message that"You quit this program before you quit windows. What is this program, and what does it do? Can I prevent from loading automatically? What is its purpose? -- Burl Stafford Knoxville, TN

Bonjour à la liste. J'ai un problème entre un ordinateur Compact Présario et une freebox. Je peux me connecter en coupant/remettant le courant dans la freebox, le pc allumé. Les deux diodes de la freebox se mettent au vert et j'obtiens l'adsl. Par contre si j'éteins et rallume le pc ou mise en...

A friend has a new EVO N620C laptop and when he tries to play music he gets something like "no sound chip". Where does the sound chip go? Can I install one? It has XP Pro and the control panel also says that there is no sound device installed. This can't be right, right??

Has anyone upgraded the CPU in their laptop? I have a Compaq 906US which has an Athlon XP 1500+ and I am thinking of replacing the CPU with a LOW VOLTAGE XP 2100+. Any help appreciated. Steve

I have a new compaq and when I try to access the cd/dvd the computer freezes up. It has done this since it was first powered up. I have updates each time Iget online but nothing has helped. what do I do? Doc

I am looking for a dvd drive for my Compaq 1688 laptop. It has a cd drive in it now. Does anyone know which part # will work in a 1688? I have replaced the AMD K2-400 mhz processor with a AMD K2+ 475 mhz, replaced the 4.3 gig hard drive wth a 30 gig hard drive and maxed the memory at 192 meg. If I...

I have the Compaq 5170. Until yesterday, my sound was working fine. I have checked both the keyboard and onscreen volume controls. The sound is turned on. The sound card shows up in the device manager and says it is working fine. I have rebooted the computer, but that didn't help. I haven't...

Having just taken possession of this Presario 5000 with a Duron 800 and running ME, I came across a web forum post where somebody was complaining about how slow his similar machine was. So I started up System Monitor and discovered that at idle, the cpu usage was a whopping 35%. The machine was...

Does anyone know the largest hard drive I can put in this Armada 1700 6266/T/4000/D/M/1? It has a 4 gig now so I would like to at least double that. I have the latest bios installed, but it doesn't seem to mention anything about hd size. I suppose knowing the largest partition size would also...