Very slow to boot, nothing on Control Panel functional (so no diagnostics), suggestions from the group?? System had been unexpectedly shutting down after running ~1 hour - but now doing better (up 5 hours) after removing cover and vacuuming out years of dust. Does this Compaq require "Compaq...

I have the Compaq 5170. Until yesterday, my sound was working fine. I have checked both the keyboard and onscreen volume controls. The sound is turned on. The sound card shows up in the device manager and says it is working fine. I have rebooted the computer, but that didn't help. I haven't...

I have just bought an external HDD and a digital wallet for photos. When I connect to USB 2 they both show as "Unknown Device", on USB 1 the digital wallet works but the External HDD still shows as "Unknown Device" I fitted the USB 2 card about a month ago but haven't used it, in the Device Manager...

Hi everyone, I was wondering if this newsgroup has an archive.. If it does where do I go to find it? regards Felicity

I have a Compaq Armada 1700 that originally had a 4 gig harddrive I just recently purchased a used 20 gig harddrive and installed it. After formating it and reinstalling the software it seemed to be alright. It even restarted fine. But when I turned the power all the way off and turned it on again...

I just got a presario 5410US 1.3 celeron from my friend, but it does not have a power supply. The motherboard part # is 254552-002, 815E chipset, 20 pin atx connector. I plug the standard atx connector to the board, it can fit. However, i want to make sure it does not fry the board before i turn...

Hello, how i can get to the bios in this laptop, whitch key i must press before turn on the power, i try press DEL, F2, and nothing. Please help me.

I have a Rage Pro Turbo AGP 4Mb graphics card and would like to upgrade it. It seems only certain cards will fit but I don't know which ones. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks John

Anyone know how interchangeable Compaq (or other?) drives are with the Armada 4100? I am after replacement floppy drive and have seen loads on eBay, but not the exact model. Question is, would other Compaq floppy drives. Same question for CD drives... Any advice, leads appreciated. Thakns.

I have a Presario 5834 which was given to me free by a friend who no longer had use for it. I am having problems with the CD burner making coasters. The system came with system restore disks that load the factory installed software. These disks install the CeQuadrat program for creating...

I hooked my son's computer up to our DSL line this morning for the first time in several months, and applied a substantial number of patches to WinXP. One thing concerns me, Windows update had a warning on the first batch of patches that for Compaq and HP computers that had WinXP preinstalled,...

I have an old compaq system, that a friend would like to use, however the powerpack needs replacing. The powerpack does not seem to be a standard one, it seems thinner and has a corner "cut off". Does anyone know where I may be able to get one of these, if still available? Thanks David

I just inherited a Presario 2240 from a friend who knows absolutely nothing about computers, so I can't ask them this question. (They got a new system - Dell Pentium 4 with 512 megs - what an upgrade!) I know nothing about Compaqs, and couldn't find an answer to this question on the Net. I see 1...

I have a Compaq 5140, running Windows 98 Standard Edition. When I open Solitaire, I receive an error stating the program has performed an illegal operation.... I have tried the microsoft support suggestions but the symptoms they describe are not exactly the same errors that I get. So no luck...

I am looking at a new CP R3360US laptop from Best Buy. I would like to wipe out the hard drive and clean install XP Pro. Does anyone know if XP will be able to produce the drivers for this laptop?? Any other reasons not to do this?? I don't want all of the preloaded garbage.

Hello Wow, where has this website been? So glad I found it! I am having some problems with a Compaq Presario 7QSM11 (7000z series), Windows ME OS. Its my sisters computer and she brought it to me with a dead hard drive. I picked up a new WD 120GB Caviar (old drive was a WD 60GB). Set the jumpers...

What are my options?; I'm searching myself but somebody may have already been down the road before. I have (well, my Brother has) an External Floppy drive (Compaq brand), and an internal HD running Win95. Options might include a Compaq CD (but it's likely going to be a hard surplus find) or...

HI Was given a load of these a few months ago. Got most up and running, 98SE on most. Mix of 266 single /dual upto 333 single. Most have matrix gfx cards and 2 have GLoria. mix of 2.1 and 4 gb hd drives

I have a Compaq S4020WM running Windows XP Home SP2 on a new 160GB Maxtor hd, which has 1 partition C: (NTFS) at this point. After installing the op system, I originally had a recovery partition but have already removed it with the Compaq Tools CD, no problems there. The Compaq Tools CD also...

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