Hi: I have a 5320 bought in Nov 2001. It recently started performing sluggishly and I thought of doing a factory restore using the recovery CD. However, the hard drive crashed during tis procee. My question is, if I buy a generic hard drive and install on this machine, will it be possible to use...

Got an 80-gigger in there. Would like to put in a 120, 200, 250, or 300 - depending on what's on sale. Anybody know how to tell if the BIOS will support the larger sizes? -- PeteCresswell

Now that all the votes are in, looks like a step at a time is in order. 1. Abandon Primary Ide, and Install Promise card. 2. Hook existing drive to Promise primary as master. 3. If everything still works, hook new drive to Promise as slave. If something is wrong at this point, change all to CSEL....

Hi, I'm trying to install Win98 on this system. It currently has no OS. I wondered why my Win 98 boot CD could not install the CD drivers, then discovered that it is because this is a SCSI cd! So I was assured these were the drivers I needed, and loaded them onto the root directory...

I need a CD image of the system recovery CD for this desktop machine. Thank you in advance. :) -- "To conquer the world, we must be as meticulus and calculating as a colony of ants on the march." --Julius Caesar /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Ant @ The Ant Farm: http://antfarm.ma.cx | |o ...

I'm trying to work on this laptop for a friend. I tried to load win2k, and I got an error about non-compliant BIOS for APCI. It suggested updating the BIOS. I checked the website, downloaded and ran the flash update - same error. Will this thing just not run win2000? But...in windows 98,...

Hello if somebody can help me I do not have PENTIUM IV COMPAQ PRESARIO the problem is that when treatment to install Windows XP the machine is reinitiated to me not it can I install normal the Windows 98 and when treatment to install programs a little heavy is reinitiated the characteristics again...

Hi, I really don't know a whole lot about use prices for laptops, I have a chance to get a 4220t Armada with a be that holds the cd-rom and battery with JLB speakers, bateries are ion-lithium, screen is tft ad looks good, ram is maxed out at 96mb, floppy drive, a mini marble size tracking ball has...

Machine is old Presario 7599 desktop. Milk was spilled on keyboard while computer was running. Plugged in new keyboard and system was locked up. After powering off and attempting to restart, the Compaq splash screen shows up on the monitor, and a flashing cursor in upper left corner. This stays...

I have an old deskpro, don't no what model but it is 133mhz P1 64ram utp and I changed the old with a new one and now I can't enter the bios. I searched the compaq site but I didn't find anything... anyone can help ??

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I have a Compaq Presario 5000, with the original mother board that came with it. Also, I just got a brand new Seagate 40 GB Barracuda ATA HD. So, I don't know if my problem is the HD or the mother board Since I was having problems getting the computer to boot (problem that originated with a nasty...

Hi all, I've got a compaq Armada 1580DMT from my mate recently. But the power lead is missing. Is anyone know what's the DC spec of the input. or can you tell me the equilavent lead that's current on the market. I can see from the back of the laptop, it's a 3-pin type socket. Thanks very much. Od

I am trying to install more memory on my Presario 5009. I have 3 128mb SDRAM 100 memory sticks in the machine now. I purchased a 256mb SDRAM 100 to replace one of the 128 sticks. When I install the 256 stick the computer will not boot, nor recognize the memory. The harddrive starts, but so...

Hi Everyone, I have a Compaq Presario PC Model 5BW285. Pentium III 866 Mhz with 128 MB RAM I have noticed that the PC is very sluggish with lots of disk thrashing. Upon checking the available RAM using the MS System Information utility, there is very little left! 384 KB out of 128 MB. The...

I installed a Diamond Stealth 500 card in a 7360 running Win200Pro. Other than there's no configuration software the card seems to running fine. The problem is using games such as Star Wars:Pod Racer. The intros look fine but when it gets to the games the screen flickers making it useless to play ...

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Hello New to this Newsgroup so don't know if this is regarded as helpful or "minding other people's business" but there is a warning out about a newsgroup posting going around that poses as a home movie of popstar Michael Jackson but is in fact infected by a malicious Trojan horse. Details at the...

Hello i have a evo n800v notebook with 40gb harddisk. the problem is that the disk is very loud when he isn't in use. during reading data he is quiet but when he has finished he makes some "click" noises. i had never problems with the functionallity of the disk. have someone the same problem? can i...

I upgraded a Presario notebook 1800XL390 to Windows XP, but lost some of the Synaptics touchpad capabilities, including ability to create zones with special key links. I have installed HP/Compaq's update (2002), and also tried a generic XP driver from Synaptics, without success. Does anyone where...