Just purshased a new video card online for the Compaq presario s6500nx my wife bought. (Saphire ATI 9600xt 256 MB) Got a question... When I install this card, do I have to disable the onboard video first or is it automatically disabled? If I have to disable the onboard video, how do I do it? Do...

Hello. First post. And yes, I did a search and couldn't find anything regarding my questions. Question 1: I have an n610c and the battery is nearly dead (I actually had two die - I bought it used with one new spare battery). The original battery died a couple of years ago and the...

I've got a Presario 2175US notebook. How do I install dual monitors?

Has anyone an answer to my problem? Hello, I have a Compaq Presario notebook 1230. OS W 95. I want to put it into my network.using a silicom USB ethernet adapter. I also want to connect a laserprinter XEROX 4510 to that laptop The silicom USB ethernet adapter only runs on W 98 (SE?) When I try...

I have been asked to look at a 7400 for a friend. This, because of age, didn't land in my lap with OS or REstore disks (if it ever had any). I did notice that the Win98Se files are stored in c:\windows\options dir. There was no setup.exe I am thinking that the 7400 probably came with a floppy...

Now that I've made the move from dial-up to high speed (DSL) I'm ready to ditch my five year old Compaq very soon. The main problem I have with this computer is that it has always crashed a lot and seems to crash more and more. It's running Windows ME, 850MHz Pentium III, 128MB ram. Now that I'm...

Give this a try, download WinDVD from HP support site. http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/Armada/us/locate/20_1006.html#36 It does come with software decoder. I don't know the installatin software recognize any particular model of the computer. Mine is an old Armada e500. "John H"...

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I'm trying to restore a Presario 486 SX-33 system. I added a 250 MB Conner CP30251 hard drive and reformatted it to FAT16 using this machine. Then I booted to my Win98 master boot disk to get the system going. The hard drive was automagically recognized as a Type 1 disc and I began to install...

I have two compaq deskpros one is a celaron 400 with the real small case and the other is a p3 550 full tower. Both are running win 2000 sp4. My problem is that neither one will boot up with out a keyboard hooked up. Im using pcanywhere to control them and don't want to hook up a keyboard everytime...

Having a bit of a problem. PC won't POST and I get 1 long, 2 short beeps. According to this web site http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/compaqbeep.htm it's a video problem. However, when I drop in a PCI vid card and connect monitor to it I get 1 short, 2 long beeps which is, supposedly, a...

I bought a new compaq presario a few days ago, as the key board came in a box and the old hp one didn't (but looked better), I decided to swap them over. Unfortunately I didn't switch the computer off. The screen froze and as I went to plug the old one back in the power went dead. There are no...

Got this system from a friend. Was all OEM, 566 Celeron, 64 mg ram, ESS Allero onboard audio, modem has part number MDM 56K 2076-001. The monitor jack was sheared off at the board (broken clean like it was never put there, never seen any thing like it before). I replaced the jack and plug on the...

All of a sudden I do not have sound on my Compaq Presario 500. I am running Windows XP. I ran the Windows troubleshooter which said that the device was working properly. I checked all connections and uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers but still have no sound. Any ideas? When I "play" a CD...

Iv got no sound anymore i'v downloaded the latest drivers, and also checked my bios for failers, but i can not find the solutions. Does anyone has any idea what the problem could be Raymond

I had traded-in a non-working Compaq Deskpro Small Form Factor system. 800MHz P3/128Mb/15GB/CD-ROM. This does not give a video signal from either the integrated video card or a PCI graphics card that I inserted. No sound beeps but green LEDs on the motherboard, fans working, floppy seek and hard...

Hi, I build a new array with new, NON compaq harddisks (IBM) on a Compaq Smart-Array Controller. All work fine at this moment :-) I know that the HD's fom Compaq have a special Compaq Firmware. - What exactly is different? - What will happen when a drive fail?

I have a Presario 1200XL118 that will not turn on. The switch appears to be functional. I have replaced the RTC battery. When powered by AC cord and the battery is plugged in......I get a power light for the AC but nothing from the battery, neither green nor red - just nothing. Should I be...

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 have a Compaq n610c notebook running XP. It has a 40 gig HDD in tow partitions. I bought a new 60 gig HD and I am trying to copy the old drive to the new. I am using a desktop to copy the drives. Ghost runs with no errors, but when I install the new drive in the notebook it will not...