I have a factory refurbished Compaq 2100 series notebook that quit booting. AMD 2.xx, 512megs,60?gig hdd, CDR/?DVD, XP Home. It quit booting, no video, all I get is the power button light, power light, and wireless NIC lights flashing 5 times the on steadily. No video of any kind. The manual said...

The Presario 7PL290 (Presario 7000) has two 9-pin cables with connectors from the front of the case. The computer has a firewire card with a keyed 9-pin connector and a similar 9-pin connector on the motherboard. I replaced the motherboard after determining that it was failing, but I did not take...

Hi, I have a presario 1600XL-144 that i am trying to restore, but i cant find the original drivers from compaq anywhere. If someone can point me to a destination where i can downlod og who will copy them for me, i'll cover all costs. Best regards Tage

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/

In comp.sys.laptops QuestionAuthority wrote: : After a thorough search on this problem I came to the conclusion : that the touchpad lockups I have been experiencing no one knows : the cause. Several causes are guessed at, but now one really seems : to...

I have the Presario SR1115CL and I am trying to figure out what I need to connect my vcr to the pc. I would like to upload a vhs video tape to my hard drive so I can use a non-linear editor to create a dvd. The vcr is an Emerson with only two lines out, video and audio. Is there something I...

REF: "C" have you checked for a DOS version driver? Some hardware has separate drivers for DOS and Windows. KC "VeryPOd_fictional" wrote in message ... Can anyone help with the following....

I have not seen any activity in this group for some days. Anyone here?

Hi, I was hoping to upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005! Anyone knows where I can get an upgrade CD for my m380n? I was deployed in Iraq and I missed the upgrade offered by HP! I talked to them on the phone today and the ****ers refused to honor the upgrade. I am not mad...

Don't understand this one. Have an N610c notebook. When I switch it on I get the Compaq logo and the usual "press F10 to enter setup" Then the screen goes blank and XP boots up. The reason I know this is because you hear the XP startup tune. Also if you do press F10 to go into setup the screen...

Hi Guys and Guyesses, I recently had to remove the cover from one of these Compaq SFF computers to instal a pci card but when I put it all back together, the CD tray sticks inside and won't come out to play. Is there some knack to closing the case that I have missed? Many thanks, Steve

Hello, I want to move my Compaq 06C4h deskpro motherboard in a ATX Aopen case. Problem is that on the compaq case there's only 1 cable to connect the power switch, reset switch, power led and HD led but in the Aopen case these are 4 different small cables wich connect the front case with...

I have a Compaq Evo W8000 running Window 2000 Professional. I use it for processing video material. Presently, I'm using internal and external Ultra-160 SCSI discs. Since the motherboard provides four IDE ports, one of which has the CD drive hanging off it, I plan on fitting a pair of 500Gb EIDE...

Hi everyone! I am using a Compaq Armada m700 with Debian (sid). I am using a stock kernel image, since i was not able to produse a working .config for the kernel sources. It's not my first self-compiled kernel, but I got the Compaq Armada new and when using my own kernel, some hardware doesn't...

Hello everyone, On my compaq armada 1520, I am getting power but the screen is 100% blank. Any idea what it may be? John

The CD/DVD-Rom on has started to not read read any discs inserted in it. The drive shows up as OK in the Device Manager and is "pulsed" during system startup. However, when I place a CD in the drive, the CD will not autostart and when I click on the drive from explorerI get a message "F:\ Is not...

Hi all, Just saved one of these 1993 vintage PC's from being scrapped. It runs OK except for a curious problem with it's four 72 pin SIMM memory slots. Slots 1 & 3 detect any 4M or larger SIMM as 4M. Slots 2 & 4 don't detect any SIMM at all!

I have a Sony CRX100E/X2 External USB CD-RW Drive that I have not used in some time. Recently I chose to give that hardware to an out of the country friend that needed a CD burner. The problem was that I could not find the original Spressa software that came with that CD-RW drive. When I started...

Does anyone have the recovery CDs for a Presario S5200NX?

Hi all, when you plug the power adapter into the laptop, the screen gets brighter, when you remove it dims. This is part of the power conservation settings. On the older M700 laptops, you were able to switch this off using the drivers downloaded from Compaq/HP. The drivers from Compaq/HP for...