I have a friend whose Compaq Presario recently crashed due to buildup of viruses. The recovery partition did its job and the computer works again - albeit slowly and with lots of freezing and glitches. I talked to him and we decided to completely format the drive and reinstall Windows XP, the...

Mediamon wrote: Hi. I just posted this to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq. Now I am finding other newsgroups that this topic is appropriate. But not sure how to forward original post to other related newsgroups without crossposting. So may apologies in advance. Follow-up set to...

Well turned out the upgrade didn't work. :-/ The comp wouldn't start up with the new Processor. Blasted compaqs and their no upgrades policy -- Lupuss

I have a D510 that comes with the standard 220W power supply. I'm looking to put a nVidia 6800GS video card into one, and am a bit worried about the power. I have a spare 400+ warr PS that I am not using, but it is too small and holes don't align with the case. Is it possible to use this unit on...

I have a D510 that comes with the standard 220W power supply. I'm looking to put a nVidia 6800GS video card into it, but I'm a bit worried about the power requirements. I have a spare 400+ watt PS that I am not using, but it is too small and holes don't align with the case. Is it possible to use...

The Video Card that I really want to get is called a ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express(16x) Dual DVI Video Card.But costs over $600 at Tigerdirect.com I think it will go good with and Socket 939, A8N nForce SLI (Scaleable Link Interface) Ultra Motherboard, with a AMD (Advanced Micro...

Hi. I recently overclocked my Presario Series 5000 5002us. It was not that hard to do. All I did was install CPUFSB set it for FIC AZ11 PLL-IC Cyress/icw W230(3) A and set it at 104FSB. I gained a little speed with the Athlon T-bird 1.4GHz 200FSB now running at 1455.9MHz @ 208FSB.

There is only one short beep after computer is booted up the the error message comes on the screen ... 162 System Options not set. Could someone PLEASE help me out with this ! I am to the point of putting a new meaning to "crash my computer" :crybaby: Thanks to anyone who can give me...

I am new owner of a Presario 4504 (a dubious honor) and am tying to install a 20g drive in place of the factory installed (5") 2g unit. Besides the mounting being different, it does not recognize the OS and fails to boot. The new drive is loaded w/XP How do I tell The System that there is a new...

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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...

Can I change the power supply on my computer? It came with a 220-watt. Any suggestions will be helpful.

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?

I had to replace the HDD in a Compaq EVO W4000 and now I can't get into the CMOS. We've misplaced the Diagnostic-Setup disks, does anybody have a copy they can image for me? I've asked Compaq but they are being slack...

I need the pinouts for the LED/power switch connector on my old Compaq mobo. HP tells me the info is not available and the service centers won't give me the info. Can anyone help? Dominic

My Compaq Presario 7360 running Win98se crashed. I wouldn't start in SAFE MODE. I kept getting the no O/S on any system. I went through all 3 Start Up Options on the Boot Disk. Went through everything in the Help Menu. ie SYS C: and SCANDISK, and SCANDISK /ALL and SCANDISK /ALL...

I only just found this by Googling for "split space-bar" - (slightly edited for my own reasons). It does work but as yet I haven't powered down to see if it returns to the default "left = backspace" mode. Spit Spacebar Fix - Compaq...

Hi I recently acquired an old Compaq LTE 5300 133MHz Pentium Laptop and I want to replace the 16MB RAM expansion cards with 64MB expansion cards. The problem is that there are 2 very small screw at the ends where the RAM is held in the back of the case and I can't get them unscrewed with my...

I am looking for a Compaq Presarrio Internet keyboard with digital dashbord keys. If someone has one that is n good condition for sale please email me . Also if someone has any other Compaq keyboard for sale plese email me. Thanks. JB

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...