Purchased From PC World (Poole, Dorset in England) Usage: Used as a PC on a flat clean stable surface Never moved when on. After 10 months the Hard Disk Fails!! He takes it back to PC World, they send it out to PC Service Call. The customer gets it back, but it is running slow, only when he...

Hello, I have a laptop Compaq Preasrio R3000 which currently has NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M. I would love to be able to uprade my video card. I'm not sure if I can. I have heard two differnet opinions. That its possible and that its not. I'm confused about who to believe. If it is possible, I...

Hitachi travelstar and compaq presario r3000z HD compatibility problems....?? I purchased a HItachi Travelstar 80gb 5,400 HD and there appears to be a compatiblity problem. The strange thing is that the HD will work in other laptops, but not mine... I tried both the jumperless and the other jumper...

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 have a year-old R3240US, which uses the 3200+ AMD 64. The system runs like a blast furnace when I run any game on it. Is there a lower-powered version of the processor that can replace the current one? Certainly some of the newer AMD chips use less power, but I'm not sure what's compatable.

I think the reboot is due to weak power supply, it came with 300w and the video card spec suggest 350w recommanded. what should i do now? upgrade power supply? where can i find a replacement with the same plug? i do have two nec dvd writer, if i take out one of them will it help the situation?...

I have an R3000 laptop with the AMD Athlon 2800+ cpu. It seems slow to me. The Control Panel /System says anywhere from 400 to 800 Mhz at different times. My desktop which is an older Athlon shows 1.4 gig on that screen. I tried looking at the BIOS but there is no setting for a multiplier. What...

i recently acquired a Compaq Presario 4770 200MHz. First I could not enter the BIOS setup by pressing F10 or anything else. I wanted the machine to boot the floppy first but the floppy seems to be bad as disabling the hard drive forces a different floppy drive to boot. After getting the new floppy...

Both the 4700 and 4800 series Presarios had issues where the riser card was difficult to seat properly. Pull the card out of the slot then reseat FIRMLY. You will hear it SNAP into place. HH "Terry Richards" wrote in...

I have just found out that we have an old computer running Compag web based management. How do you turn this off on W98, do you just uninstall it from add remove programs? I would prefer a method where I don't reboot, but it is running on a system with W98, so my guess a reboot is inevitable.

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I can't get my LCD to dim. The Fn F6/F7 seem to have no effect. It is definitely NOT the LCD itself, or the cables (I have swapped the lid and the fault stays with the base) Seems a strange one as the picture is excellent - but it eats the batteries unnecessarily fast Thanks David

I had been playing around with running Debian Linux on a partition on my hard drive along with Windows Millennium Edition on the another. I had been having trouble with Linux detecting some of the hardware. I went into Setup and restored the default settings to see if that would help with...

Laptop won't boot. When i plug in the power connector only the battery light is flashing 8 times. A few seconds nothing, then again 8 times flashing. No other activity, the cpu cooler fan seems to be death also. Anyone familair with this problem?

No serious risk of damage to a computer plugging these in. A lot of PCMCIA cards used a cable (called a dongle) to connect either to an RJ11 phone cable or to an Ethernet. If you don't have a dongle to match a card, the card is pretty useless. Chekc the various vendors' web sites for drivers and...

I replaced my M700's battery after it died and the new one charges up to 100% but will not power the laptop, and sometimes I have to remove the new battery to start the laptop. Battery has same part number as the old one but doesn't have a tiny strip in the opposite corner as the...

Hi all.. I have a compaq presario 2100 model laptop. I have thought of buying a docking station for that. But, the leptop i have doesnot have the docking connector (bottom side of the notebook). I just see a rectangular marking on the back side. WHat should i do? 1. buy a new backside case?...

email me for all of the cabs, dlls, and other stuff you may need at . I may even tell you how to obtain a copy of the restore disks if you do not have them.

email me for all of the cabs, dlls, and other stuff you may need at . I may even tell you how to obtain a copy of the restore disks if you do not have them.

I have tried to use either a PNY Geforce 6600 GT AGP8X or an EVGA Geforce 6600 AGP8X card with this PC. Both of these card would not allow the PC to boot up (I have an optional installed 400 watts power supply). I then tried a PNY 6200 AGP8X card, it worked. It has performance similar to the...