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?

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

sorry, no speek english. possible DD 6Go --- 40 or 40Go COMPAQ DESPRO PENTIUM II 400M or PENTIUM III 400M ?

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...

HistoryFan wrote: I'm asking this question on behalf of my uncle who is mostly computer illiterate. He has a Compaq Deskpro computer. Running Windows 98SE, Celeron 333Mhz processor, 192MB of RAM, 3.1GB hard drive, 56K modem and NIC card. A couple of days ago,...

I have an old Presario I am trying to upgrade for a training project for a beginner. The original factory install of Win 95 was ok but all the other stuff just took up HD space. I want to install a version of Win 98se or another Win 95 (legal copies). I ran fdisk and format to the HD. Now on...

I have an old Compaq Series 3200 all-in-one computer (486 generation) where the motherboard, etc. sit in a rack below the monitor. The rack slides into a frame and all connections are at a multiplug on the front inside. I was wondering if anyone knows whether the monitor can be used by itself. ...

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

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

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

hi all, having trouble disabling devices in bios setup.. devices are disabled, ie integrated sound and LAN but when XP loads it is still picking up the devices and installing them the machines exact model is presario 5640AU anyone seen this before?? any tips or resources gratefully rec'd thanks...

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 am trying to build a Linux mailserver out of one of these machines but at a cold boot I get a message that the machine has noted the two drives and I must hit F1 to save these. I do so and the screen goes black and a moment later the lilo boot takes off just fine. I have gone into setup (F10)...

What is the maximum hard drive size recognized by an old Compaq 5147? I don't suppose the mobo supports ATA drives, does it? There is currently an 8 Gig drive in the owner's machine and I have not actually seen the machine. TIA