I posted a message a month ago, asking help with regard to burning CD with the bundled CD burner and Roxio software. The problem was that it took 25 minutes to burn a music CD which seemed slow. Various tips were offered. I burned my first CD since then, and I noticed that there was an option in...

Hello everybody, concerning to my thread from 5. October the CMOS error message (WARNING - CMOS CHECKSUM INVALID - LOADING USER DEFAULTS) of this Laptop occurs because of an empty Resume Battery (I didn´t know that there are 2 internal batteries in the LTE 5xxx). Now i want to open the Laptop and...

I have a Compaq Evo n1020v. The display is very faint. There is almost no contrast. You can see it a little better if you have it at an extreme angle. I'm wondering if the whole display needs replaced or if it may be an inverter board, or something much less expensive to replace.

Anyone can tell what is the sound chipset on the desktop ?

Drive Image v5 doesn't run. The box says XP is supported. From XP Home on a Compaq Presario 5000 it says Disk Manager not running. I don't use Disk Manager that I know of. The DI floppies it made won't boot - says can't find DOS. Evidently it doesn't include DOS on the floppies it makes. Just...

We seem to have difficulty in determining if the inserted battery in a Presario XL505 laptop is even charged...or even THERE!! We installed Win XP Pro over the original OS of Win 2000 NT and there's NO 'battery charge' icon located anywhere.... How do we install one?....and WHERE?.. Thx Infnet

I am having a LCD problem on my Compaq Presario R3240 laptop. The screen acts as if the lid is shut and is very dark. The desktop can be seen faintly. If you continously tap the lid sensor button (the button that sensons the lid has been shut), the LCD tries to lighten up. Eventually it will...

Can this model of Compaq use ECC memory? I ask only because there is a lot of it about! Also, what CL should I use? CL2 or CL3? Thanks, Paul DS. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.

Hello... I need to reset my CMOS and can't find the E50 jumper referenced in the documentation, none of the systemboard diagram's I have found show it either. Please help if you can. Thanks em

I posted about two weeks ago and asked if there was a reason for this machines slowness...HH and one other, told me that the Hard Drive is 5400 RPM, the video also slows the machine etc...thank you for your input..it did help but!!! Well I am going to change out the motherboard, hard drive, video...

My partner has a Compaq she inherited from her mother, lacking the instruction manual. We can't get the speakers to work. Tried a variety of different speakers, nothing. Everything else seems to work fine, just no audio. Please point us in the right direction, thanks. ~Cor

Hello, I've got an old Compaq Deskpro, with a Pentium2 (Slot 1) @ 350Mhz, the motherboard is a Compaq 041ch (it's the Ep 6350 Serie). I'd like to overclock it, but I don't really kow how. I tchanged the jumpers (the ones marked "processor speed") so it shoul go @ 450 Mhz but apparently that doesn't...

I have a Compaq 5330us desktop and the onboard graphics card is going bad. I also want to add a DVD Recorder. As this computer is about 4 years old, is it worth getting a different graphics card and recorder or just buying a new computer?

Compatibility at 4x seems assured, but are there any gotchas about which I should have concerns? Thanks. ------- System: Deskpro EX P3/800, CPU upgraded with Intel SL6BY Tualatin to P3/1.4Ghz/512K L2 cache, (latest) 686P0/2.04g BIOS, 512Mb RAM, Win98SE

Hey!... Am currently using Windows 2000 Professional as the Operating Sysyem!... :D ...

Compaq Presario 5140 Anybody hear of this one. I do a normal shutdown sequence, Start-Shut Down-Wait for Ok-Then press button on front for about 3 seconds. Everything is off, no lights on front panel, computer quiet. Then for no apparent reason it starts up on its own after 30 minutes. I checked...

If the Device Manager doesn't list a version number for the computer's (Compaq Presario 5000T) USB ports then it's 1.0? TIA -- Untie the two knots to email me "Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty, but of certainty." Nietzche

I would like to know if someone have the same problem . can't adjust the amount of memory for the video card. with 256mb it goes to 32mb , 512mb to 64mb , 1gig is still 64mb and 2gig is still 64mb i can't adjust in bios using f 1 at startup or using f 11 .got frustrated and call them the pc is...

Hi, I have some questions witch concern my notebook (Intel Mobile Celeron 2ghz, 256 Mb DDR pc2100) - is it possible to change my CPU to something faster (for example P4 - question of overheating),

If I replace my hard disk, can I simply use the restore CD's kit to reinstall everything or do I need to pass trhough a special process because of a tatooed disk or anything else?