Hi, I have three questions about a presario 2210, hope somebody can give some help. 1. At the moment my display runs on " high colour, 16 bits ". Is this the highest quality possible for the videocard on the motherboard? (or do i have to look for a better driver?)

Suddenly my Compaq Presario 2200 laptop has developed a "2 1/2 inch opaque white band running vertically from top to bottom of the screen. Against a white background it's barely visible but it's very apparent against any colored background. Anyone familiar with this problem? I'd welcome any...

I have a presario 2200 laptop, 2months old, it will after being off a night reset the time to 12 am jan 1 2004. does this unit have a cmos battery or is the time onboard a chip. it certainly is too soon for a battery to fail. any other reasons for such a failure, the battery is kept...

Hi, I have a Presario 2197CA and equipped originnally with 2X 256MB pc2700 cl 2.5 ram. I thought I could get a 1.3GB ram laptop buy replcaing one of the ram with a new 1gb chip. Now I just bought a 1G DDR333 pc2100 cl2.5 ram chip and the bios won't recognize the new ram at all. I thought the new...

Hi, Anybody got Presario 2197 (which has USB 1.1 built in) working with a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card? I tried three different cards but can only get a speed of a couple of times of USB 1.1. Even worse is that an external hard drive (AcomData) can't be even recognized by any of the cards and the laptop...

I have a Linksys 802.1B wireless router and a cable modem. It works fine because I have two other notebooks at home with PC Card Wireless that works fine. My wife's new Presario is not working quite right. I have the button pushed and have set up the connection and enabled TCP/IP. But I can't...

Just bought a new Compaq Presario 2172 Ahtlon that is advertised as 2500+ and is supposed to go at 1.87 GHz. When I go into System Information, it says 519 MHz. Why is that happeneing and what can I do about it. I have had the machine about a week. -- Nate Rosenthal

I purchased this laptop last May. I soon discovered that the laptop seems to produce a lot of interference limiting the effecting receive/transmit range of the 802.11b mini-PCI card. I literally can't be more than 40-60 feet from an access point if I don't have a straigh line of sight to the...

I have a Presario 2110ca notebook and need to update the bios. When I try to update them I get an error message: "This BIOS is not for your notebook pc." I have tried bios updates for most 2100-2110 notebooks but all say the same error message. My notebook says Presario 2100 on it but has a...

Very disappointed in Compaqs Presario 2110 (US). Is it me or is this perhaps the most problematic laptop ever released by Compaq? Some problems we have had with this notebook a Bios can't be upgraded because unit is shipped with no floppy bay, mouse is erratic, battery won't hold a charge,...

I had a disk read error on my Presario 2108US running XP Home and had to reformat and reinstall the OS. It now will boot and run fine but it takes 25 minutes to boot. I'm serious, literally 25 minutes to boot. Once booted it seems to run fine, not slow, connects to the Internet, etc. I looked in...

When trying to start it, on battery or AC, the blue power on light on the button blinks on and off as does the whirring sound of the fan. Sometimes it does start and eventually freezes up or shuts itself off? I've pulled out each of the memory modules (2 256 modules) one at a time and even switched...

I've been having ongoing problems with the power plug on my Compaq Presario 2100. Now the battery's dead. Does anyone know if there's an external battery charger you can buy for the 2100? Thanks!

I've been having ongoing problems with the power plug on my Compaq Presario 2100. Now the battery's dead. Does anyone know if there's an external battery charger you can buy for the 2100? Thanks!

Following the great post on the original HTFC bb forum on the presario 2100's common DC Power Jack fault i managed to completely dismantle my wifes laptop to find that as with most people the middle pin from the jack was loose. I cleaned 2 of the pins up and resoldered them and reassembled...

Hello everyone, This is my problem: 1. DC power jack broken (this one is pretty explanatory). 2. LCD screen is dark Even at the maximum brightness and contrast the LCD screen is darker compared to other laptops (like my R3000). If you compare the white color of the screen and any white paper –...

Hello All: I have a 1 year old Presario 2135US laptop. It shipped with XP home. After 3 months the registry got trashed and had to reinstall windows. Three months later same thing. I switched to XP pro and have had the same problems. I just finished doing my 4th full windows install and I'm...

Hi, The problem with the LCD on my Presario 2100 is that it has a lot of green color. Apparently my display can’t show some color(s) and instead it’s showing green. It’s not like the display has stable patches that are green or green pixel/lines. As the picture on the display moves the green parts...

Hiya Anyone know if the modem on a US imported Presario will work in the UK ? Regards Trev

Hello I have a Compaq Presario 2100 (2126EA). When I turn the laptop on (with external power on), the fan starts up , cdrom spins 1-2 sec.. The power button is lighting blue. After three sec. the I/O led is blinking, like the laptop is in sleep-mode, the fan is off. Nothing happes on the screen. ...