I have a Compaq Presario desktop PC with the 2.6 ghz Celeron chip. Can anyone tell me if I can replace the processor with a Pentium 4 using the same socket? Thanks

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Circuit city warranty When I bought my extended warranty, they said everything except the battery was cover. Now there is a crack in the laptop case which is spreading and there help line says that it is cosmetic and not cover. Is this normal? Can I do anything about his?

Curious..Some Compaqs carry the "CL" suffix and others carry "US." Anyone know the difference? Thanks

(sorry it's a long post but if you read on you may be amused at my stupidity and you may be able to help me - I hope!) I bought a 2nd hand pw5100 with a single PII 333. I added another PII 333 and the relevant VRM, and got a replacement 18.2GB Wide-Ultra SCSI drive. During my building of the...

For compaq PC's, I found this note I wrote in an old Service QRG ( from 2001): 1. Hold Fn key and power up. 2. Tap Fn+F11 quickly 3. mem counts up 4. disk seeks 5. Then get " Error 162" ( this normal) 6. Press F1 to "Save Changes" - now back to factory default settings Might still work on...

Does anyone know where this battery is located and can it be easily replaced? .. . . or does the CMOS get its power from the main battery pack? We have a laptop that defaults to 1980 time when turned off, and which will not respond to `F10' attempts to get to the setup menu.

Every time I disconnect my Compaq Presario 8000T from AC power, two problems happen. One, as soon as I reconnect it to the outlet, the computer turns on without waiting for me to press the power button. Second, I get a message that says "Default BIOS settings have been loaded due to BIOS update or...

Would a replacement cd-rw/dvd-rom that works in Presario 1700 also fit a Presario 1500? I am selling the 1700 drive on ebay and a potential buyer was wondering if it would work with his 1500.

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Hi, I got two Compaq Presario 500 machines for free and would like to prepare them for some junior high school kids in the neighborhood. I have loaded Windows 98SE and MS Word, and would like to enable them for email use. The problem is that they came with telephone plugs to connect a modem....

Circuit City has a 3 day sale 12/15/05 - 12/17/05 onthe following laptap. Would appreciate any comments on it's reliability and performance. Thanks. Compaq Presario Notebook PC (M2305NR) Great for school and office: The AMD Mobile Sempron™ 2800+ processor (1.6GHz) and 512MB of DDR memory...

i'm not very computer literate. we have a compaq presario 6000. we can play cd's but for some reason we can't play dvd's . should this model be able to play dvd's? when we load one specifically a music hybrid, the dvd never spins up. is there anything i have to load to get dvd's playing or...

Another reason I would never buy a Compaq again. Microsoft Word was included with my computer. I've had two crashes (another reason I would never buy it again.) After the first crash Compaq gave me the code numbers I needed to resintall Word; after the second crash they told me to "take it up...

Hi, I have a problem with my notebooks compaq pressario 1200. I don't know if I am in the good newsgroup for my question, if it's not the case I'am sorry for this mail. I bought my computer six years ago. It works under Windows Me but I would like to know if it's possible to change my version of...

Hello, Wondering if anyone can give me a suggestion as I've exhausted all my own ideas: Compaq 1200 with 256MB of RAM, 40GB hard drive. System is extremely slow in all operations...not just Windows. Even slow getting into CMOS sometimes. Slow lag response within CMOS also. Most of the time, I...

Does anyone know wher I can find a mouse pad ribbon cable . Thanks David

Does anyone know where I can find a mouse pad ribbon cable?

Well, I still haven't found the drivers for the PCI Standard ISA bridge on this 1200 series Compaq POS. Can anybody help me out? This is for a friend of my parents. The guy infected his PC with a few viruses (no lie I detected several in about 70% of the exe files on the HD) so I juss wiped it...

I have a problem with booting my laptop. Sometimes is startes normal and goes to windows 98SE and somtimes it's get stuck at the compaq screen in the beginning. But now the strangest he wont start at al. What i did: I screwed it open en removed the cpu and cleared the cmos. There is no extra...