I have a Compaq Presario 2100 notebook with built-in HP wireless. I have trouble getting it to lock onto a wireless router at home and the local coffee shop. I also have an older Pentium 233 generic notebook with a PCMCIA wireless adapter that works perfectly at home, so I know the wireless...

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

I have a compaq motherboard in a different case than in was originally installed in and no manuals forit. Is there any place i can go to find out what the specs are on this board. Mainly cpu suppoert and integrated sound support . It is a fast board. Thanks in advance

I am trying to restore a presario 9234 (1996 vintage, its still has ISA slots!) The box has been through several owners and the recovery disks are not longer with the box. It quit working after the owner (not me!) went on line with out virus protection. I have wiped the windows partion and...

Hi there Anybody knows how large hdd. i can mount in my defective armada m700 . They were earlier sold with up to 30 Gb. of hdd space, but is this the limit when renewing it... ? Bye bye...

I have 2 Compaq computers (desktop & laptop) the DVD players usually work fine. Occasionally when I try & play a DVD I get an error message saying no compatible DVD player is found. It does it on either machine but plays fine on a stand alone DVD player. Some main stream movies have done this. ...

I got a Compaq Presario 1725S monitor from somewhere with no manual. It seems to have a built-in microphone. And there is also a control knob for sound. What I don't understand is why the monitor cable has no extra cord attached to it that would be for the microphone usage. Also there is a hole in...

My Presario 1250 laptop is - for lack of a more technical word - lazy. The response time to keyboard and mouse events is sometimes perfectly good, and sometimes horrible. I put the cursor over "File" in some arbitrary program, and the click button appears, but sometimes, there is no response for...

Can someone tell me what a PCI Serial Controller is? I used my Quick Restore disks, to take my 5600i back to original state, BIG Mistake.... I have no sound, can't get Monster II drivers to work and every boot up wants to install the PCI Serial Driver. The Tech service has not been any help...can...

Looking for quick restore cd's for a Compaq Laptop series 1200. Can someone help me. I found out that they don't sell them anymore because Microsoft will not support win98, which comes on the disk. Thanks John

There is an 8gig hidden partition at the back of my HD? What is it or? --L

I'm currently running Windows ME on a Compaq Presario (128 ram, 40gb hard drive, 21 gb used and 17 free.) Over the summer I downloaded theWindows Media player that comes with XP (the one that lets you rate the songs). It's been running perfectly and hasn't given me any problems up to now. A few...

Hey friends, I'm desperate for answers to my problem. I've had this Compaq Presari R3000T laptop for 6 months now and have had the worst problems with i which has been driving me nuts. I've called Compaq Tech Support, bu they keep referring me to the driver CD's or reinstalling the OS whic I've...

I have a Compaq Presario 5BW160. I started having itermittant reboots that gradually became more and more frequent until now it wont boot at all. I've scanned for viruses.(none) It will go through boot up until it loads windows, then reboot? I can bootup from XP disc. I have tried new hard drive,...

Hello, I bought my computer in 99, it came with a 4gb HD, by Maxtor, a k6-2 350 mhz processor, and 64mb of memory, I have just purchased a K6-2 550 mhz processor and am looking at a Maxtor 20gb ide HD, will my present system board a socket 7 be ok or should I replace it with a super 7 for the new...

It is running Windows 98SE with 96MB of RAM 1) Standby no longer works. I hear the sound when I press the button, but thats it 2) Its become unreliable- I ran Norton Win Doctor and the problems have remained, and as far as I know all viruses and spyware are off (I have NAV and McAfee Anti...

i ran across this site yesterday and did not have time to join or browse much . this seems to be the right place for my questions . we have 3 pc's in our home . my wife's is a hp pavilion xl761 , mine an ibm pc 300pl and the latest one (free !) is a presario 9232 . the 9232 is for my oldest...

Compaq Deskpro EN. Pentium III processor 1000 MHz. Processor Speed 1000/133 MHz. Memory 384 MB/133 MHz. S/N 6X18-DYSZ-J1PX. System ROM 686P2 v2.11. Agency series PD1055. SC-148. Card in green slot: HYM4V33100BTWG-75CE; HYMIX0125USA; 4MB AIMM 133 MHz CL3. No cards in PCI slots. Windows 2000. Have no...

Sounds like you installed the OS in one machine and then moved the drive to another machine. No wonder it won't boot the OS. Try installing the OS on the machine you want to use it on.

Hello.. My fiancé has a Presario S5000NX. It was in bad need to a rebuild (format, reload windows). So, I did that, installed virus protection, spyware removal, all current Windows updates. It is a clean and fresh machine. However, it is just so slow. It is a 2.4 GHz Celeron with 128 Megs of...