I'm in the market for a new notebook and the Presario 2568AP would suit my purposes (I think)... I need the parallel port to be able to be set in BIOS to fully EPP Compliant to run some sound recording hardware (Soundscape) but no one (not even compaq/HP) seem to be able to tell me if it can! ...

I have a Presario 2700 series that my uncle said he couldnt get to start up. I plugged in the cord and the when i press the power button the two leds on the Right side blink green and shut off and a Orange LED on the right side near the mouse pad with a Battery Icon symbol flashes for about 2...

I have 2 Compaq Presario 2710US laptops, both with the same symptom. When I power on, the fans kick on high speed almost immediately (well before windows loads) then the system shuts off. I'm guessing heat problems, both systems have been cleaned with pressurized air. I contacted Compaq but they...

Hi, I recently got a Presario 2700. I installed XP pro, and everything is fine, except that the buttons at the top don't work. (For instance the volume control buttons don't do anything and even the power button can't be reprogrammed, it just shuts right off.) I've looked all over but can't...

As I want to replace the hard disc in my Compaq Presario 2700, anybody has any info on how to reach the hard disc in that laptop model ? Thanks in advance

I have a Compaq presario 2700 laptop computer and it has suddenly stopped swtching on the laptop is connected to a Compaq mains adaptor and the green light is on but there are no lights on the computer I have tried removing and replacing the battery and tried it without the adaptor but no joy. can...

I have a Compaq Presario 2700 laptop 1.13ghz that shuts down almost constantly with no warning. You can hear the fan speed up and then it just shuts completely down. I took it to a local shop and they said it was too extensive of a hardware problem for them to fix! PLEASE HELP... -- Dale A...

Hi, I've been given a Presario 2701 notebook to mend, but I'm stumped. The history is this - HDD was noisy so was replaced - when it was changed the 'engineer' couldn't re-install XP so he installed ME. Now when the machine is booted with the mains lead attached it hangs on the 'Compaq' screen....

I have a year and a half old Presario 2701US laptop running Windows XP Home. Over the past few weeks the system has been just shutting down (needing a complete reboot) with increasing frequency. It got to the point where I could rarely get it to start up completely, and doing something...

Has anyone else experienced this? The hard drive on this system is delivering about 10% of the disk throughput that would be normal for a laptop drive such as this. I used sandra to test it. It takes forever. Anything that involves the disk drive (like defragging, or setting share permissions)...

Hey kids: When I got my laptop, I immediately upgraded to XP Pro. I cannot get the Broadcom wireless NIC to enable the radio. Compaq won't help me because they only support XP Home, and apparently the GUI is quite different for networking. Has anybody "out there" enabled their...

Hello, I've got a Presario 3545 purchased in UK about 5 years ago running Win'98 on an Intel 810 board with Celeron 400mhz processor. Only modifications I have made since purchase are replacing the original CD Rom Drive with a CD/RW , increasing RAM from original 64MB stick to 256 MB (2 at 128)....

I have a 4090us and I just recently purchased a ATI Radeon 7000 Video card. I installed the card and nothing happened, even after disabling the onboard video from the bios, before installing the card.. when I try to boot the computer it just hangs with no display regardless of which video port I...

I installed Windows '98 on my old Presario 4110, but it won't start except in Safe Mode. I tried everything, e.g., i disabled almost all Windows drivers (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=uUvZ8Ot89G A.257%40uppssnewspub04.moswest.msn.net&rnum=3), and I disconnected...

would just like to share, I have discovered the .zip password for this disc. (let a .zip password cracker chew on the files for several days before i gave that route up) after trying lots of permutaions, i just decided to try all the numbers in the filename, omitting the 'b' at the end. with the...

Can I install a normal 128MB AGP video card in my Compaq Presario 4200NX? The PC was a gift and I really could use more than 64MB of shared video memory. Any help would be appreciated. I have not looked inside one, but is there even an AGP slot available? Thanks, Mike G. Newport, RI

Any source for the audio driver for a Compaq presario 4220. Thanks

I'm trying to get a file off an old Compaq Presario 425, which has a floppy drive so dirty or otherwise wrecked that I can't write to it. I'm not in a position to do anything heroic like replace the drive or do any serious monkeying with the machine. It is running DR-DOS 7.0.2 and not connected to...

Anyone can tell what is the sound chipset on the desktop ?

Hallo, does anyone knows how to install win98 an a presario 4620 machine. Is it a special version or is any win98 cd good. I don't have any drivers for the presario :( I had to format the machine and can't install windows. PC stops as windows copy the installfiles. Thx for any reply