I have a compaq deskpro EN, Pentium III 733 mhz and the IDE cables have a break in one of the wires about 1/8" long near the blue connector. Does anyone know why the cable is designed like this? I want to replace the primary cable with one that has a middle connector for a slave drive. Do I need a...

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I have a DeskPro EX 866 Desktop. I am going to upgrade the mobo and many of the components. Will a non-compaq mobo fit in the case or will that too have to go in the skip? Dan

HELP! What kind of a locking system does Compaq use on the Presario 5000 that retains the CD drives. I can't figure out which button to push in order to release one of the CD rom drives. Jess

Hello. Has any owner of an Evo or Presario with a Multiport module on the lid ever modified it to accept a standard USB 2.0 device (i.e., a standard USB plug)? I've just been thinking that it might not be so hard to replace the W200 802.11b card with a newer 802.11g USB 2.0 key card and then...

Hi all, I have a friend who has a Compaq Presario, with a label on the tower that says 7360. She did a Quick Restore because of the blue screen of death, after being online and chatting at Yahoo. Now, the cd rom drive will not recognize any cd at all. I'm guessing a corrupt driver, but just...

I just bought a used EVO D51S and need to add more memory (going from 256 MB to 512), but I get a diagnostic to the effect that the PC is missing a microcode patch and I have to hit F1 to continue. I've never updated a BIOS and I'm not even sure if my D51S is part of the D310 or D510 series. (I've...

Reimaging from scratch a 6027ca (Canadian Version) with XP Pro. Can't determine Ethernet card type. Can someone check theirs or let me know? Web site gives no information other than Intel 10/100 and NO drivers. I do not have recovery CD.

Im trying to find the required XP drivers for a clean install of XP Home that im doing on a Presario 5000Z. I haven't been able to determine the actual model number yet, but did get the original system configuration by doing a search with the serial number he...

i'm not very computer literate. we have a compaq presario 6000. we can play cd's but for some reason we can't play dvd's . should this model be able to play dvd's? when we load one specifically a music hybrid, the dvd never spins up. is there anything i have to load to get dvd's playing or...

The hard disk on my DeskPro EP (300Mhz Celeron) died and I would like to replace it. I'll probably look for something off of eBay, but I'm not sure what to look for in terms of specs. The original drive was 4.3GB, although I wouldn't mind something larger. Would any 4.3 GB drive work? Could I...

Can I upgrade a presario 1275 with a DVD-Rom drive? Will the one from a 1216 fit? It's part number 202952-001/ THanks!

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Dear all, I appear to have lost the use of the seven 'easy access' internet buttons on the keyboard of my Compaq Presario 5000 series 5WV254 PC. Any idea how to get them back, please? When I looked for the 'Easy Access Buttons' icon in the control panel, it had gone too! Can I copy this...

Seems like both 5.25 and 3.5" devices are on some sort of clips/rails that need tb squeezed from the front of the case. But I cannot figure out how to get the face of the case off. There is some clear plastic that forms a separate part of the face which, if removed, would seem to give the...

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My Presario 1250 laptop is - for lack of a more technical word - lazy. The response time to keyboard and mouse events is sometimes perfectly good, and sometimes horrible. I put the cursor over "File" in some arbitrary program, and the click button appears, but sometimes, there is no response for...

A friend bought a used Compaq Deskpro EN (tower)/ PIII 550mhz and he wants to put the fastest processor it will take, but I can't find any info except a serial # (6011CR23E328)and a hardware list on the HP site. Need a model # so I can see what it will take. I am familiar with clones and AMD but...

Hi there! I just got a pretty old Compaq Deskpro config, really nothing special, approxx 1,3 GHz, 128 RAM, everything else integrated, and with a small HDD. the box wasn'tg opened, so the computer was untouched for like five years. i tried to turn it on, but nothing happened...

I have never saw this before. I have had an old, outdated, yet perfectly good working c500 compaq. I don't remember the model, but lately, something happened while my niece was using it. she is a young little tot, and only goes on the computer to use the paint program. Well, one day, it...