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Presario 1710 won't boot by Choreboy
Six years ago neighbors bought a Presario at Radio Shack. They have lost modems and surge protectors and ignored my advice to bond their power and telephone grounding rods. Two weeks ago a nearby lightning strike wiped out everything tied to their phone line, including their PC. After it's...
July 10th 05 09:10 PM
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Need Help Finding Info for Computer by Von Fourche
I've been looking on the compaq website about how many banks of memory my computer was shipped with. Isn't this info on their site? I've punched in my model number - 5BW284, but can not find the info. Isn't their site supposed to me how much memory and how many banks it was shipped with? My...
July 10th 05 02:55 PM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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Presario 1270 Floppy Problem by davidg35
I'm running XP on my preario and it doesn't want to let me use the legacy floppy drive. I keep enabling it but no joy. Anyone have sucess with this? Thanks, Dave
July 8th 05 07:51 PM
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Compaq/HP NC8000 problems by Dre
Hi all, I have a friend with an NC8000, it has a couple of little issues. First, the touchpad and the little joystick in the keyboard wont work. Have tried various operating systems (it came with XP, no good, he has since installed Windows 2000 and it still wont work). Is there anywhere I...
July 8th 05 01:30 AM
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PAR by Von Fourche
How do I download/decode PAR files? What's the difference between PAR and RAR? Any free programs that allow me to download PAR files? Thanks!
July 6th 05 06:52 PM
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Can I upgrade from Win2K to XP on Compaq EVO D500 ? by Mark Wilson
I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP...
July 3rd 05 03:18 AM
by Ben Myers Go to last post
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Presario 1752 by simiel
I have a Presario 1752 computer, windows 98 and a 144 internal card modem. Problem is that when I install the modem using windows modem installer everything works fine. But when I do a reboot, modem and com port 2 comes up with an err and modem stops working. When I check the cmoss I have only...
July 1st 05 01:11 PM
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need help w/presario pw532aa by mike
new system, I used fdisk to delete partitions,now of course I cant reformat it. I created a new pri dos partition and made it bootable, but when trying to format it says something like drive not recognized thanks for any help mike
July 1st 05 02:22 AM
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Professional Workstation AP400 access bios by Johnathon Aaron Steel
I am trying to access the setup menu with no luck. I am using the F10 key but seems that I see the setup showing up in the bottom right corner then it just boots up regularly not accessing the BIOS. any suggestions? Thanx JAS
June 29th 05 07:26 PM
by Mark Go to last post
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Compaq FAQ by HH
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
June 25th 05 10:34 AM
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Old Deskpro 575 BIOS problem by SP
I can't get into the BIOS setup in any way. No F10 F2 or any F. No boot floppy images with diagnostic tools (I use Linux) Does anybody know the right solution for this?
June 25th 05 10:00 AM
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RAM Query by Echy
Hello Would anyone know if the Compaq Armada 7400 notebook can handle 2 X 256 MB Ram sticks? Having trouble getting it to recognise this configuration. -- Echy
June 25th 05 09:25 AM
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UPS With Hotswap Batteries 2200W or Less by Will
We use the APC Symmetra UPS in our server room and lab, and I like it a lot. It has hotswap battery modules that you can just plug and play. You don't disconnect wires and you don't issue any commands to put the system in some special mode. The system autodetects both removal and insertion. ...
June 22nd 05 06:27 PM
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Presario 7000US won't boot after adding DVD-RW by Frank
Hi all, I was adding a DVD-RW drive to my Presarion 7000US. The factory CD-RW drive was set to CS, so I set the DVD to CS also. The computer didn't boot. I switched the drives around, setting them master/slave. Still didn't boot. I then disconnect all the drives, and reconnected them one by...
June 22nd 05 01:27 PM
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Key for Setup on Armada 7730MT by Quoi ma gueulle(R) ?
Hello i have a old notepad but i can't enter in the BIOS-SETUP because i don't know what is the key on keyboard. Can you help me ? thanks.
June 20th 05 10:41 PM
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Should i buy the Presario m2007us by Barry Shapiro
The Presario m2007us is on sale by me. Looking to buy a laptop for my college bound child. Any thoughts on this model with the following specs? It does not say it has a wirless card but is that not a given since it has the Centrino Technology? Presario m2007us Notebook, Intel Pentium M...
June 19th 05 04:22 PM
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REQ: Copy of restore CD-Presario 1200 by MG
Hi all I have suffered a HDD failure on my Presario 1200 XL and can't restore from the original CD for some reason. I am therefore asking if anyone has a copy of the original restore apps and WinMe that they can copy for me onto CDR?? I'll cover costs
June 18th 05 01:07 PM
by MG Go to last post
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Presario 2197 and USB PCMCIA card by [email protected]
Hi, Anybody got Presario 2197 (which has USB 1.1 built in) working with a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card? I tried three different cards but can only get a speed of a couple of times of USB 1.1. Even worse is that an external hard drive (AcomData) can't be even recognized by any of the cards and the laptop...
June 17th 05 08:54 PM
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Presario and Me and CD driver? by MG
Hi Had to reinstall WinMe on my Presario 1200 but now the CD doesn't show in devices?? I have tried all the possible Hard Disk Drivers, what do I need?? Thanks for any help Mark
June 16th 05 05:28 AM
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Compaq Armada 1598DMT boot problem by darkrats
I'm trying to reinstall Windows on this old Compaq Armada 1598DMT. The install went fine until the final boot when all I got was a blinking cursor. I rebooted into safe mode okay. Everything looked good except the video drivers were not a match for the machine. So, I installed the correct drivers...
June 13th 05 11:01 PM
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