Once again tonight I have been on HOLD trying to get thru to tech support. 41 minutes later I still am on HOLD! WTF is going on with Compaq's tech support lines? It has been like this all damn week long. Yesterday was the longest I held for...2 fugging hours!...still on hold when I finally gave...

I "inherited" a Compaq Presario but am unable to find a model number on it. It has a curved front panel with an oval Plexiglass? door which slides up to reveal a couple of UPS ports and what I believe is a Fire wire port (marked with 1394) It has a Aspen2 motherboard with an AMD Athlon k7 900...

HP marketed the Adaptec 2610SA as the HP 6 Port SATA RAID Controller. I looked on HP Downloads, but the Windows 2003 "driver" for this controller isn't a driver at all. The controller works under Windows XP but doesn't show up in Device Manager except as an uninstalled "RAID...

Does anyone have the HP spare number for the filler blank that goes into the MSA 60 storage enclosure? HP support gave me 389015-001, but when I order this I get something totally incorrect for the MSA 60...wrong size wrong style, not hotswappable. I downloaded the MSA 60 maintenance manual,...

Graphics work on an armada??? Isn't that kinda like racing lawnmowers? "Louis de Stoutz" wrote in message ... Hi Folks, I have the following problem with the screen on my Compaq Armada E500:

Can someone help me to figure out how to set the Compaq Proliant DL380 to automatically power up when the power is restored? I can't find the option in the BIOS Thanks allot Darius

I have a Compaq Presario 5900Z with Athlon 750 processor running Win98. It appears my original video card is dying, I'm getting large vertical lines of garbage down the screen in all modes, including the Compaq splash screen. Moving the cursor effectively obliterates anything it passes over. If...

I`ve used the Quick Restore disks on just about every Compaq I`ve ever owned..You should have no problem..But at one point it will ask you for the product code that came with your computer..If you don`t have that you will be lost

Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Compaq spare parts http://sparesstore.compaq.com/sparesstore/default.asp? For the Presario Customer Communities (Forums) http://communities.compaq.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=121&RPAGEID=0

I have a Presario 710 US on which the battery or the charger has gone south. Unit works fine on AC. But battery life is about 5 minutes. Charging the battery only restores it to about 5 minutes. Have had the machine for two years and when new I could get maybe 90 minutes out of a charge, and...

What is the latest BIOS for the Armada 7400 (6366/T14/10.0/V/M/1)? For that matter, can the laptop's BIOS be upgraded? Thanks in advance e.

Having horrid time trying to restore a crashed Vista in this system. Have three Recovery disks from HP (2 sets first set did not work): 1of2, and 2of2, and a driver disk. I have tried to use the recovery disks almost a dozen times but the install always fails. Yet I can install a 32 or...

My son has an old computer, a Compaq Presario 4716. We are going to upgrade the memory and also need to upgrade for the games he plays. I have read that many have problems with new cards with this particular model, or updating old Compaq computers in general. Can someone point me in the right...

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

I have a Compaq Presario 5000, that I traded a busted laptop to my dad for. As far as I'm aware he did not do any kind of overclocking (mobo is locked if memory serves me), and everything left in the system is standard issue. My question is what is the fastest speed of Ram I can throw in there,...

I have a Compaq nx6115 laptop. When I press the power button, the fan whirs for about a second, and the hard drive access light comes on. Then it cuts out (fan shuts down) and then this is repeated about fifteen times. Eventually it stops doing this and the fan stays on, but no hard drive...

Sirs, i have an Armada 7790 dmt that i put windows Xp on and after witch i find thats its not a supported system, So I will have to use windows 2000 pro or 98 How do I install either Operating sys.with Xp Installed already. And what kind of modem was used in this Computer?I mean the Make of...

My Compaq Laptop with a one bay floppydrive/cdrom, one day, will not boot up to windows 2000 Pro. It will not boot up to the install CD when trying to reinstall window 2000. The laptop was originally Windows 95, then later upgraded to 98 and now 2000. Even after I set the BOIS to allow the CD-ROM...

What are the opinions here on purchasing the Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 Essential Suite software to replace the PowerDVD 7 that got wiped off a new computer after using a restore disk, versus the other choices available? Meaning the various Roxio, Sony, Pinnacle, etc. softwares for DVD & CD viewing &...

Can someone help. I bought a Compaq Presario with the above DVD-R . I cannot seem to get the DVD-R to recognise recordable DVD media when trying to record to DVD. Thanks