Greetings, I have a 5440 that I used for a couplke years then it came up... "boot disk read erroe" I removed the hard drive and have desided to build another machine so to Ebay it goes! If you need a parts machine, it can be seen...

Buying a new laptop this week - for price and features, the Compaq R3030US (or if I decide I really need a DVD burner, the R3050) seems to have everything I could ask for, at a price I can afford. But how good are they? I've heard some negatives about Compaq, but then again I've heard bad things...

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...

I've run into a problem upgrading from Windows ME to XP Home on a Presario 5002US Desktop. We can't do a Clean install or an Upgrade Install. The XP installation disk refused to copy over 10 or 15 files. They are mostly .dll files and .drv files. The install gets to about 99 percent complete...

hi, My presario 1720US stopped booting yesterday, the power won't even turn on. When I plug in my ac adaptor, the black bar's light is supposed to be solid green, but not it just flashes. The battery won't charge, and the laptop won't boot at all. Can anyone tell me what the flashing means? ...

We currently have numerous Compaq/HP R3000 UPS's that I have set up in each rack that are attached to a UPS group controller server via serial cable. The UPS group members are "attached" to the group controller via TCP/IP. When I setup the compaq power agents, they defaulted to a 5 minute...

does anyone know of a website that rates compaq laptops. thank you.

I have a Preario 7360 and I ran the Quick Restore CD and now I can't open any programs. It won't open My Computer or anything other than RUN. Any help would be greatly appreciated...Ron

I have a Preario 7360 and I ran the Quick Restore CD and now I can't open any programs. It won't open My Computer or anything other than RUN. Any help would be greatly appreciated...Ron

I recently purchased the max processor for my presario 5240 (AMD K6 550MHZ) along with new fan and heat sink. My question is: how difficult is it to replace the processor? I would like to do it myself if possible. thanks.....

I have a Compaq 5192 running Windows98 FE and I have just started getting this error message when I try to start certain programs such as Works 6.0, Nero Burning ROM and a few others. Also get another box that says - a device attached to the system is not functioning. In trying to track down the...

I'm interested in installing Linux on my old Deskpro XL 6200. I have downloaded the configuration utility, but it won't start from the floppy. I get the following message: 172 EISA Configuration Nonvolatile Memory Invalid Initialization aborted Run Configuration Utility 1782-Disk Controller...

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...

I have a Compaq 1800T laptop whose hinges have failed. I located and acquired a new set of hinges, but I have to open up the display unit to attach them. I haven't been able to find anything on the web or newsgroups, and it's not obvious how to approach the task. I really don't want to just start...

** New info noted below 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

Can any one help ????? Every time I boot - I keep getting a 1790 - boot error - I tried installing a new hd but machine will not even see it - doesn't seen to even see the old drive .... any hints or sugestions ???? thanks in advance

I"am using a compaq presario type/model 5BW154 In my system there are two mouldings for memory. In one bank i've 256 mb and in the other i've 64mb. What i want is to replace the 64 mb with 512kb. However the system does not allow such an increase and sticks to a value of 256kb. Is my system limited...

I've bought a prosignia 300 from a friend. The prosignia has 16 Mb intern memory. I will use it for a linux router. First I install DOS on it. When I type the dos command MEM I see: Conventional: 638k Upper: 0 Reservation: 0 Extended (XMS): 15,360k Where's my Upper memory? Must I change something...

My laptop is a Compaq Presario 1700 17XL 461 model and originally has 128MB (64MB * 2 slots) on it. I was trying to upgrade memory and put 256MB memory on one slot. But the system would not boot and gave the message saying, "Invalid memory type, Serial Presence Detect, Invalid checksum, System...

Where can I find out how much memory this with take? This box has ME can I upgrade to XP? The cpu is a Athlon 900mhz Any help would be appreciated Jim