I've misplaced my recovery disks for my Compaq Presario. I want to sell the computer but the buyer wants a set of recovery disks - unfortunately the software wont allow me to make a second set - can i hack the software to make this work again ??? Cheers.

I'm considering purchasing a Notebook type computer. Looking at different major brands. I would like to hear people's experiences with the Compaq laptop computers. Things like, if there is a specific type of problem to the Compaq laptops. What it is like dealing with Compaq's customer service if...

What are the opinions here on purchasing the Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 Essential Suite software to replace the PowerDVD 7 that got wiped off a new computer after using a restore disk, versus the other choices available? Meaning the various Roxio, Sony, Pinnacle, etc. softwares for DVD & CD viewing &...

Help ;need recoverydisk "hard copy" Can pay a reasonable price +shipping reply to johnney_myers @yahoo.com

The screen is really dark on my ARMADA 7790 dmt,and it doesnt adjust.How can i fix this? -- CHIEFS KICK DOWN THE DOOR IN 2004

I keep getting a meeage saying data1.dat can't be found on my W4000 running XP. Does anyone know what it is and how to fix it? Thanks Alan Kerr

After removing the Bestec ATX-250-12z Rev D2R (HP P/N: *5188-2622*)and replacing it with a Antec 350 the system boots. Unfortunately I have no working PS2 Keyboard or Mouse. Hangs at the Compaq screen for just over 20 seconds. I have changed the non working input devices for usb 2.0 units...

My laptop won't boot. I've been everywhere trying to solve this problem. I have a 1200XLxxx with 320Meg Ram and a K6 500Mhz CPU and has a DVD and I think about a 6Gig HD. I can't even ascertain which model it is, i.e.xxx. There seemed to be about a million configurations to that model. I...

My sister recently shipped me a nonfunctioning Compaq SR2037X desktop thinking maybe I could get it working again since I've been in computers since the 1980's. She's already sent it to a tech guy who replaced various components including the motherboard and CPU and yet it still won't go. Here's...

All, I have a recently deceased ENS box. When you turn it on there is nothing, no beep, no fan, no disk. There is power to the board as the little green LED is lit. I swapped out the power supply but that didn't help, of course. Is there a specific part that seems to go out on these machines?...

I've posted this in the Compaq communities and have e-mailed tech support (who actually provided some helpful info) and here's what I'm up against. My Presario 710US laptop has been fine recently, until I went to view some digital photos via USB yesterday evening. The screen began to flicker,...

I'm attempting to rejuvenate a non-booting Presario, 5423 US. The hints of life include *the green power light *one quick flash of the keyboard lights when the power is first tuned on *the spinning CPU fan *a few seconds of CD drives flashing, although when there is a CD in the drive, nothing...

I just bought a Notebook Compaq Presario 1400 last week. I noticed that there is obvious one dead pixel on LCD screen. Can I get the replacement for this 'faulty' screen?

hi, My presario 1720US stopped booting yesterday, the power won't even turn on. When I plug in my ac adaptor, the black bar's light is supposed to be solid green, but not it just flashes. The battery won't charge, and the laptop won't boot at all. Can anyone tell me what the flashing means? ...

Hi all! I have a compaq 17XL265 (700mhz PIII I believe) laptop which suffered the dreaded presario 'white out'. After monkeying around inside the case it appears the plug 'socket' where the LCD video cable attaches worked its way out of the board. Rather than get it soldered or send it out to get...

Hello all... I recently came into the second of two Compaq Deskpro EN systems. This one is a Pentium III 866. I almost came home with a whole pallet of them...as the sellers were tired of looking at them and asked me to make an offer on the whole pallet. I didn't, even though I could conceivably...

Hello there, I bought a used Evo N800V laptop recently and found a very annoying defect... The screen has got a vertical band where the image is not shown correctly, but "distorted". It doesn't seem to be a problem of dead pixels (and the LCD panel itself doesn't seem to have been hit). The...

Hello there, I bought a used Evo N800V laptop recently and found a very annoying defect... The screen has got a vertical band where the image is not shown correctly, but "distorted". It doesn't seem to be a problem of dead pixels (and the LCD panel itself doesn't seem to have been hit). The...

I need more HD space and wanted to know whether I could delete the System_sav partition on my compaq and have no problems LATER considering that: 1) I am running Win XP and have my disc for reinstalltion 2) I hate ME and dont ever want to use it again Now If I run into trouble down the line, and...

I have Armada 7800 laptop with W2k, recently acquired a Dell Margi DVD card that's supposed to allow better video for DVD viewing. Unfortunately when I try to start the DVD to Go software to works with the card, I get the message "Key exchange for DVD copy protection failed. Playback...