A week or so ago my Presario Model 7478's hard drive began to fail. I had gotten a message that the disc detected that failure was imminent, and I bought a new hard drive. The new drive is a Seagate 80gb drive, whereas the factory installed drive was a 30gb Maxtor. I had checked on this group and...

Hi, I was hoping to upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005! Anyone knows where I can get an upgrade CD for my m380n? I was deployed in Iraq and I missed the upgrade offered by HP! I talked to them on the phone today and the ****ers refused to honor the upgrade. I am not mad...

My Presario desktop, windows xp, crashed last week. To make a long story short, I had what data wasn't wiped out backed up to disks, then formatted and replaced the operating system with Compaq disks. Now I find that I can't defrag the hard drive and figure I need to get a new one. What do I...

I've been looking on the compaq website about how many banks of memory my computer was shipped with. Isn't this info on their site? I've punched in my model number - 5BW284, but can not find the info. Isn't their site supposed to me how much memory and how many banks it was shipped with? My...

Hi, When I reformatted the E drive didn't work. It was working great until I reformatted. It says the E drive isn't ready even when a cd that is unused or even if there is a used cd in it. It worked perfectly before I reformatted and I checked for conflicts and stuff like that. I even went to...

new system, I used fdisk to delete partitions,now of course I cant reformat it. I created a new pri dos partition and made it bootable, but when trying to format it says something like drive not recognized thanks for any help mike

Hi folks, My other laptop, captioned above crashed, and now all I get is the boot up processing looping. As soon as the line of bars fills out, to where Windows would show, it goes back to the initial boot up screen. F8 doesn't work, as soon as I select any of the options - of Safe - Safe...

I screwed up bigtime..I have a 7770dmt and I am familier with desktops but laptops are new to me.. I booted and formatted an old 7770DMT laptop hard drive with a win98 startup disk in the floppy drive .And wasn't thinking.When it went to "Do you want cd rom support" I clicked yes.Usually on a...

Outlook Express Mail Can someone give me step by step on how to turn it on so I can use it to send picture ? I have AOL now also

I need to find the motherboard for a Presario 7478. I think its called a camaro motherboard. Any help will be appreciated.

I have a new Gateway 506GR 3.2 computer with onboard sound. I would like to use my soundblaster sound card and sub woofer/speakers from my previous computer for a better sound system. I disabled the sound card in the bios and removed the drivers from the onboard card and installed the new card with...

Thanks alot for the responses, but I relayed the wrong problem..so I'm starting a new thread..First off, the pc I am trying to fix, I formatted the hard drive, not knowing that I wouldn't be able to access the bios afterwards....now, I want to reinstall Windows 2000, but I'm having a problem,...

Hi, I was hoping to upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005! Anyone knows where I can get an upgrade CD for my m380n? I was deployed in Iraq and I missed the upgrade offered by HP! I talked to them on the phone today and the ****ers refused to honor the upgrade. I am not mad...

Hi Cant find any documentation on subject. Any know the max. of ram to use. Their are tree slots and the ram must be sdram 133. I use tre slot with 3 * 256 mb ram but want to use 3 * 512 mb ram. Is it possible ?

I have a 5000T (5BW) with motherboard 191767-102 that has been a little worn out an needs replacing... What is the difference between this board and one for the 7500- board# 170686-101. Are the 2 interchangeable?? From what I can dig up, the 7500 is a European/Asian model and my guess is that it...

I have a customer that has an iPAQ legacy-free PC v1.0, Intel P3-500 256MB RAM, etc. It's almost impossible to find anything about this computer thanks to the stupid handheld and internet appliances of the same name(s). I need to know the max CPU (or what other CPU's it can take) max memory and...

I'm needing a direct link to download the latest bios for the Compaq Presario 5660. It's a Pentium II 450 system. Didn't see it listed on the HP/Compaq site and I want to be sure to get it from a trusted source. Please provide a direct link if possible. Thanks, Tracy

A friend gave me 10 Compaq modem pulls from donated PCs. They didn't need the modems so he yanked them. I am putting together some of our office machines to donate and want to use these modems. I can't find the driver anywhere. Details SupraExpress 56i LT2070 on the front XP56i RAM LT on the...

I am looking for a part number for the I/O shield for a Presario 8000. The MB part number is 262255-001. From left to right, it has the Mouse/KB, space, Com1, lpte, then stacked 4 port USB. The Tech support in New Delhi doesn't have a clue. Can anyone help?

Hi Need power supply board for me Compaq Armada M700, can any one help. will pay good price for it, thx Saleem