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?

Hi, My daughter was given the old compaq pc for free, so I decided to upgrade the hard drive for her. I replaced the original 1.2GB, with a 40GB maxtor and then my troubles began! Everytime I try to install win me, the computer hangs at the point after the initial scandisk (black screen - copying...

Hi, I've installed Win 98 in an Armada M700 and got a display with an awkward solution and only 16 colours. Can anyone give me a hint what to do? Roger

I have a 2570US I purchased as an open box model at BB, no manual, etc. Just received 4 QR disks and XP Pro disk from HP/Compaq, which I wished to use to fix some problems. What is the procedure for use? Are these disks initiated from Control Panel or somewhere else? Bill W

Hi to the group.. A friend of mine bought one of these computers and she complained that it was slow. It has a P4- 2.4 Gig processor, 512 ram and a 80 Gig drive. After checking the computer over, I too find the computer to be very slow...slow in Defrag and not real responsive overall. I have...

Hi: I have a 5320 bought in Nov 2001. It recently started performing sluggishly and I thought of doing a factory restore using the recovery CD. However, the hard drive crashed during tis procee. My question is, if I buy a generic hard drive and install on this machine, will it be possible to use...

I posted about two weeks ago and asked if there was a reason for this machines slowness...HH and one other, told me that the Hard Drive is 5400 RPM, the video also slows the machine etc...thank you for your input..it did help but!!! Well I am going to change out the motherboard, hard drive, video...

Hi to all I have a old compaq deskpro ep c266/2.1 ntl Now i have instal windows ME on it. The problem is that i cant find the wmd drivers for it. I have seen it on the net for win 98 but not for ME. Can someone tell me where i can download it? Sorry for my english. Its not so good.

I have a Pressario 500 Series (5446EA), and want to upgrade the PSU to a more powerful one. I have been trying to find info from Compaq about the PSU, but they aren't very forthcoming. Does anyone have any information about the type of PSU in this computer, and possibly places that sell PSU's for...

The notebook has a wireless 802.11g Broadcom card built in and I was wondering if this also supports Bluetooth. Does anyone have any details on this?

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...

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

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!

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...

Necesito saber si alguien tiene o de donde puedo obtener el disco de booteo del Presario 5220. El problema que tengo es que no puedo formatear el pc sin el disco de boot de este. Existe alguno standard???. Por favor, si alguien sabe de esto le agradecería muchisimo. Gracias ......

I have this laptop with this card and if I try to download files of any size, it resets the card at the same exact point everytime time. This only happens under WindowsXP, it's find under Windows 2000 and Linux. Has anybody else seen this behavior? Jason

I have a Presario 7PL290 that will not boot. It started off freezing up after a few minutes of running ME. After powering it off it would boot back up and immediately lockup again. Now it will not even boot to the first screen. All fans are running, the harddrive clicks for about two seconds...

I bought the wrong memory on ebay. I got single sided 4 chip 128MB SODIMM instead of the low density 8 chip SODIMM. I tried installing it anyways figuring it's ok if it only recognized half the memory. It hung on the initial boot up after the install. My presario 1277 won't boot up any more. It...

On my new Compaq Presario I keep getting a window that pops up telling me about something called Intermute. How do I get rid of this thing? I click on don't remind me again but that doesn't stop it. Is there something I need to uninstall to get rid of Intermute?

I purchased a 120gig WD hd and installed it in my wife's Compaq 5105rsh (Athlon 1.1 running Win XP). The drive is recognized no problem. The issue is trying to copy the files from the present C drive to the new drive. When I try to do that with the Data Lifeguard Tools the drive then will...