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Presario 1260 bios upgrade (was: Upgrade to Win 2k or XP fails/hangs) by
Tom Garcia
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...
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Compaq Presario 5002US Question by
Clyde
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!
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over 160mb on compaq presario 1260/similar? by
Tom Garcia
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...
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July 25th 04 06:04 PM
by HH
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WTB:recovery disks by
barbibiz
Hi
Wanting to Buy: recovery disks for a Compaq 800AP notebook, copies will do
unless someone says they won't!
regards
felicity
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Compaq Armada 7400 BIOS not ACPI compliant by
gump33lt
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...
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s5000nx by
George
I need more memory in my s5000nx, but it calls for PC2100 memory. Can I use
PC anything else, like PC2700 or 3200.
thanks
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July 24th 04 08:25 PM
by HH
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Compaq FAQ by
HH
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
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July 24th 04 02:30 PM
by HH
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July 23rd 04 11:21 AM
by HH
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notebook wont start by
barbibiz
Okay, I have this Compaq notebook 800, it just wont start!
I dont remember doing anything to it.
any help, appreciated
thanks
felicity
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July 22nd 04 11:15 AM
by HH
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New hard drive setup by
Bernard Carlton
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...
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July 19th 04 11:37 AM
by HH
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Battery Armada 15xx pin assignement by
gf
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 :
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July 19th 04 10:38 AM
by gf
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Presario 1685 antivirus removal by
rlking
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
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July 18th 04 05:49 PM
by HH
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Compaq FAQ by
HH
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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July 17th 04 08:30 PM
by HH
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Sorry for the cross post Tix to SAND BLAST by
JIM HUNTER
sticky fingers hit the wrong group key. Sorry about that........
In article , says...
I have two tickets to the Sunday Concert at the Pier in Austin(out Bee Caves
Road--come by car or boat) for Cross Canadian Ragweed Plus Roger Creager...
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Please help me to decide by
tran
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 ?
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July 15th 04 09:17 PM
by tran
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Some information & question on laptop CPU upgrade by
gulliver
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...
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Booting Presario Laptop from CF/MMC/CD by
Buckwheat
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?
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Laptop CPU upgrade by
Steve
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
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July 14th 04 11:10 AM
by HH
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