I almost forgot - this computer came with a single 256 mb RAM card in, DIMM, 133mhz etc. According to Crucial.com it should only have up to three 128 mb cards. It seems fine. Can I safely add a second one of these, 256 mb again. (I have a 64mb card in a drawer as salvage, but it is different...

I recently had to replace the hard drive in my Compaq Presario 7478. I have the new hard drive working but have what I think is a strange problem. I have connected the new drive to the connector marked "Drive 0" from the motherboard, but when I attach the "Drive 1" connector to my old hard drive,...

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario desktop PC (5WV250) that I've installed Windows 98 on. The drivers that I have tried from modem-drivers.com and driverguide.com haven't worked. A bootable linux distro identified it as a: 'Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax GVC Corporation Compaq Scooter'. Any Presario 5000...

I have one of these for an older DeskPro, Part no 288468-001, and is not working, of course. Anyone who knows where to buy such old PSU's today ? Only 90watts i belive, is that adequate for a Pentium 2 450 Mhz ? The problem is that it will not "ignite", it just starts and stops 0,2 sec later......

I have gotten a Compaq Deskpro 386s From what I can see on this picture http://www.geocities.com/daniel_lebras/images/r0015149.jpg it must be the 2530 model. The first issue is that I don't know how to have more memory. The operating system I'm planning to run requires at least 8MB, and would...

Any suggestions for a good video card that will work in a Compaq Presario desktop model 7110US? I'd like to be able to play the Sims 2...that is the extent of my PC gaming. Thanks. ----- Kim/Dreamspinner3 Visit My Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/dreamspinner3/

Hi, all... Can anyone verify if the 5000T (5BW/ m'board #191767 which I believe is a Mitac 6513wu) has a standard ATX power supply? Thank you! -- B'Regards,

This photo shows the Synergy II card with the NLX bracket http://members.lycos.co.uk/venus/v1557.jpg doesn't it ? -- And to all those opposed... Hmm...well *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com *** *** Encrypt your Internet usage with a free VPN account from http://www.SecureIX.com ***

Hello to all. I have a customer whose Compaq went down because of multiple virus attacks. I had to format whole hd and install WinXP. Now, this is a problem: I installed windows with Operating system CD like any other computer. Problem is that now i can't restore Works and Word from restore...

I've been trying to download the Win98 sound, video, and modem drivers for a Presario 5461 over the last couple days. All of them seem corrupt. On a Win98 machine it gives an illegal operation when I try to run them, on a Win2K it says "invalid Win32 application". So far I've tried downloading on...

Hi All, This is my first post here so be kind please ;-) I recently dropped my Presario 1260 laptop (in it's soft padded carry bag) onto it's WiFi card (note to self. Take all PCMCIA card out before moving laptop) ;-( This had the undesirable consequence of ripping / breaking the PCMCIA bit's...

Hello, I am trying to salvage some data from a Compaq 5192 hdd . I put the hdd into another PC, and BIOS checks the drive ok. Windows on the other hand does not recognize the parition. I guess its because of the compaq paritition on the hdd ? What I would like to do is to get access to the DATA...

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...

Hi, I'll be getting my computer soon and I was just wondering what some of you do to check and make sure everything is alright. Checking against the Packing List is a first step but then do you have other tests you run? For example, I've seen people say they got the wrong amount of RAM, wrong CPU,...

Hi there ! Has anyone an idea how to get RH9 running on my proliant 800? I tried nearly all constellations of kernel parameters and also reduced my hardware to a minimum, but allways I get the same problem: Right after anaconda detected an unknown monitor the system hangs :-((( So please help...

Hi all, I'm putting together a system with spare parts that I have laying around, including an OEM version of the FIC AZ31 motherboard. But I don't want to advertise its Compaq origin. I did a quick search of Google and found that the Compaq BIOS can't be reflash to the FIC one. Is there any...

I canceled the System_sav partition on the hard disk (1.5 Gb) but I am not able to recovery and use that free space on the disk. Help me please. Frank

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...

I want to upgrade a Presario 5BW220 from Windows ME to Windows 2000 Pro. I want to do a fresh install of Win2k. I've searched for drivers using Compaq's support as a guide. So far I have the following Win2k drivers: Compaq Inet keyboard driver (Compaq site) Latest Rompaq, if needed (Compaq's...

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...