I know this is an old post, but for any other readers, I just successfully installed w2k on a 1260, without any magic keypresses to disable ACPI.. every time a reboot happened I had to switch off the machine and let it cold-start, however, otherwise the screen would corrupt and the machine...

Hi: For some reason, my CD R/W drive keeps opening and closing by itself. It will not stop. I am running XP. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

Hi all, Been offered a Presario 1260. Was wondering if it's possible to get the system to use more than 160MB - I know the limit is quoted everywhere on Compaq materials, but was wondering if it's an issue with official support, BIOS reporting (which you can force some OSs to ignore), or a...

Hi Wanting to Buy: recovery disks for a Compaq 800AP notebook, copies will do unless someone says they won't! regards felicity

I have 2 identical Armada laptops that I have used for the last 3 or 4 years. One of them now fails to boot. Just as Windows is starting it displays a blue screen with the message that the bios is not ACPI compliant. On advice from other sources I replaced the Compaq auxiliary battery. The...

I need more memory in my s5000nx, but it calls for PC2100 memory. Can I use PC anything else, like PC2700 or 3200. thanks

Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1

Can someone tell me what type of RAM I have. I want to upgrade.

Okay, I have this Compaq notebook 800, it just wont start! I dont remember doing anything to it. any help, appreciated thanks felicity

Thanks to HH and his FAQ posts. It convinced me to not try a Gigabyte BIOS upgrade to my Presario 5460 to allow use of a new 80GB drive. I did have to get a bigger power supply than the puny 95watt one which came with the machine. I did go with an added PCI EIDE card and the install went...

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 :

I just restored my system with the Quick Restore CD. I need to uninstall the Network Associates (Mcafee) Antivirus. Does anybody know how I can do this? It does not show up in my Add/Remove programs. Thank you, Robert

Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1 For Compaq...

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Good or bad Thanks Bob

I'm proposed to buy a brand new COMPAQ EVO N620c which production is discontinued. Do you think that will be possible to find replacement parts after say 2005 ? How about robustness of Compag batteries and notebook keyboard ? What should be the fair price ?

I've been looking at CPU upgrade recently. I'm expecting some warm-hearts here will help me or some peoples who want to do similiar thing will exchange ideas and info with me. My old laptop is 12xl300 with a celeron 600 cpu,and I plan to upgrade it to a P3 CPU. I found some useful information on...

I would like to be able to boot from CF/MMC/CD in order to GHOST my laptop without buying a floppy drive. Anyone know how to make it boot from CF/MMC? Anyone know how to make a generic boot CD for DOS?

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