I rescued 4 of these systems from an office clearance. There are 2x 500MHz P3s, 1x 650MHz P3 and 1x 600/750. It is this last one that raises the question, because in the BIOS, it is reported as a 750, whilst CPUz reports a 600. What's the reason? Thanks, Neil

Hi all, does anyine have any experience of replacing a cmos battery on an older compaq board, the type that is held in a retaining clip and seems to be welded to it. I know you can purchase a replacement 4.5v battery pack and attatch it via separate jumpers on the board but these are expensive...

Office Max has the R3000Z for $399.99 after rebates. It comes with a DVD drive. My 906US has a DVD/CD-RW combo unit. Can I take the combo DVD-CD/RW from the 906US and put it in place of the DVD unit in my new R3000Z. Thanks

Hey- I noticed today on my desk where my notebook sits 99.9 percent of the time that there is some kind of black residue on the desk which is directly behind where the rear vent is on my notebook and I'm puzzled as to what it is or why it's coming out of the fan vent. Can anyone give me some...

Iv got no sound anymore i'v downloaded the latest drivers, and also checked my bios for failers, but i can not find the solutions. Does anyone has any idea what the problem could be Raymond

Hey All... :D ...having major USB headaches..hope you can HELP!...I recently purchased a new mobile which can sync with a pc...so tried to do so but there is no device being detected by the USB port! I have checked the device Manager for the USB controller which says 'This Device cannot start....

Hello, I received an Compaq Proliant an I want upgrade it. My question was this one: is it possible to put a new motherboard in the compaq and by witch vendor i can find such motherboard?? It must be not neccesairly a Compaq motherboard, asus or tyan is quite good also.( but it must be compatibel...

I have a Compaq Prosignia that insists on booting from a network and only a network. How do I manage to change this so it will boot from a floppy, hard drive, or CD like any other computer? I know there is probably a setting in the CMOS for this, but I can't find it. Could someone out there help...

When did Compaq begin using ATX motherboards? I have a broken Gateway (with FlexATX MB and ATX PS) computer, and I think the power supply is what's gone bad. I'm hoping to use the power supply from a Compaq that is about 6 years old. I haven't seen the old Compaq yet, and I don't know if it's worth...

I have a new Gateway 506GR 3.2 computer with onboard sound. I would like to use my soundblaster sound card and sub woofer/speakers from my previous computer for a better sound system. I disabled the sound card in the bios and removed the drivers from the onboard card and installed the new card with...

I've got a Compaq AP500 professional Workstation with the following specs: Dual PII 400Mhz processors 512MB RAM Two 4.3GB Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 drives ELSA Synergy II AGP video + onboard video 32X IDE CD-ROM 325 watt Compaq proprietary power supply (1 year old) One honkin' huge, heavy tower case

Bonjour, Je recherche les CD d'installation d'un Presario 5456. Merci à celui qui pourra me les mettre à dispostion. JPaul

Hi all, I have a EVO N410C notebook, and I can't access to the digits of the "virtual" keypad, which can be accessed via the "Fn" key. The only thing that happens is a cursor motion (left, right, up, down, as the arrow keys), and the operators which can be displayed. But nothing about the digits....

My original Seagate 10G is damaged, so I am trying to replace it with WD 120G drive as a master. However, regardless of various permutations of jumper settings, when I try to install any OS, it fails on a blue screen error. I haven't upgraded any BIOS s/w or anything. Can somebody please point me...

Just bought the s5080an model and reinstalled my own Windows XP Pro cd i bought with it. It now has a hardware problem in Windows. In Device Manager, is says there is a problem with my 'SM Bus Controller'. If anyone know how I can correct this problem your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

I have an Armada 7360 with a 4 gig hard drive and would like to get up to about 12 gig but the HP site does not give the maximum hard drive size. I'd just replace it but my employees who are mechanics use it and I don't want them ruining something newer.

Was given a 5005 SR desktop. Looking for Windows 98 video drivers for the onboard video. Have gone to the Compaq driver page and found audio and other drivers, but no video. Anyone have any other source? Thanks Terry

Hi all, I have a compaq presario 1277. After a windows 98se to XP upgrade, the keyboard started to behave erratically.It just didn't work or it didn't output the correct characters.System worked fine otherwise.After a day or so, the laptop started to emit beeps during the POST.one beep then...

Hi, I have a broken Compaq T1500h UPS. It broke when I removed main power without unplugging the connected devices first (I wanted to test the battery). So, my question is: Which component has the highest probability of breaking first, in a situation like the above? I guess it isn't the battery,...

Hi I have a problem with my armada 3500 When a power on i have to compaq logo but nothing else. Notebook make continuous beep, but seem to search something on diskette and hard drive ... If i power on with FN + F11, he don't beep for 5 secondes but does nothing too. Any tip for that ? Thanks