I have just acquired an old Compaq Armada E500 notebook through work for free. The machine itself is in good working order but it has obviously been dropped as there is damage to one of the screen hinges and the power connector socket has snapped off. I'm not spending hundreds on a new...

I have just bought two EN P-550's. They work fine but I need to install a wireless lan card in them. I am trying to use a new belkin 54g card. The BIOS does not list the wireless card and neither W2K nor XP lists the card. It's not a driver issue. It's as if I simply have not installed the...

Anyone fitted a miniPCI wireless card to a Presario 700? Was it easy and is there an inbuild antenna or did you need to install one? Cheers, Paul DS. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.

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.

This is a post to document problems I had installing Windows XP on an old Compaq Presario 7461 (but probably applies to other models). 1. Install Windows XP goes through first stage (copy from CD to hard-disk) the fails to reboot. Basically both the hard-drive and the CD-ROM were wired to the...

Compaq Presario 7461 - what is this BIOS setting and what does it do? Cheers, Paul DS. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.

Anyone seen this? The backlight on my 705EA has gone out but it doesn't seem to be the backlight/power board. Swapping the complete screen for a working screen (from another 705) makes no difference and I can actually put the "broken" screen into the other PC and it works - so the...

Added 512MB to this machine. BIOS counts up to 128MB then red COMPAQ logo on screen goes awry and machine locks up. Any suggestions? Memory seems to match Compaq specifications (although they're vage on their website!). Paul DS. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.

All, I've just replaced the motherboard of my 1GHz presario laptop with a similar board from a 900MHz machine. I am using the same 1GHz processor. Is there anything I must/can do to get 1GHz performance from this new system or am I stuck at 900MHz from now on? And before anyone asks, I'm a...

Anyone with one of these able to tell me whether the two fans (one back left, one back right) are always on together or are they independent? Thanks, Paul DS -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.

I have an old Presario 9232 that I wish to consign to a different task. To do that, I need to be able to boot from CD. To date, I have not managed to find a key combination that will let me access the Setup ROM to see if a boot from CD option is available. Can anyone advise me how to do...

Running Windows XP 64Bit Looking for video, Sound, and display drivers for Windows XP 64BIT Thanks in advance Paul J. Klein

What is the max HDD size for an Armada 1500c ? Paul. Paul Roberts Email : Web Page : http://freddiemercury.no-ip.org PGP Public Key : http://freddiemercury.no-ip.org/pgp.html

I have a armada notebook model V300 that has a xircom realport cardbus ethernet 10/100 card. I can not get the card to use dhcp provided my my router on my home network. The card has an autoconfigured IP address that I can not seem to get rid of. I would really appreciate any and all comments or...

My not very smart son, in an attempt to upgrade a compaq 4860, took the machine partially apart. I have everything back together but for the life of me can't find out where the fan connects to the motherboard. does anyone have a 4860 (or probably 4800) model around and could snap and email me a...

I have a Deskpro EN running Windows 98SE and tried to install a faster CPU but just got a blank screen.The processor I am using now is model No. SL3XY which is 733mhz/133mhz bus with 256kb cache,1.65volts and 370 pin socket.The stepping is cBO and the bus/core ratio is 5.5. The processor I am...

Hey all. I really need help, computer is compaq 5000 (desktop) don't have all the details to it, as it's my sister's. But I can get them if needed! What i do know is That we had to reformat her hard drive thru msdos - because the recovery disk wouldn't work, nothing worked - couldn't get...

Where can I find a MV720 driver for WinXP ANY help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Just purchased a radeon 9000 64mb card. Just wondering, has anyone tried to overclock this card. Does it matter that it only has a heatsink and not a fan? if yes, how high did you clock it to, did it remain stable? thanks in advance

How can I update my BIOS on a Compaq 5000us. The question is should I? I've since upgraded to WinXP, 448 ram, lite-on 52X burner, I also wanted to upgrade the original videocard it came with to a radeon 9000 but a few people told me that the agp arpeture size is not set right. can you...