Ok, here is what I want to do: you know that you can pick any web page for a home page in Internet Explorer or leave it blank. Well I want my hope page to be a picture on my hard drive. Is that possible? Whenever I open Internet Explorer I want a picture from the My Pictures folder to pop up. Can...

Hi, I have a Compaq Deskpro EP/C466 with an Intel 810 chipset. It is a Celeron 466MHz with 256MB RAM. I am looking on the net about upgrading the processor to a Pentiun III but couldn't find anything. It is too difficult because it is an "old" computer. Can I put a Pentium III processor on it?...

Hi I have problem with my computer. I would like to install other operating system than win98 se (on two cds with drivers ). How can I install SUSE on txt mode? If i put DVD to my DVD drive i see black screen. I try to modify my BIOS setup, but i can't change boot device (just floppy disk or...

I need a Compaq Presario 5000 Series quick restore disk (windows ME) ..email me at if you have THANKS

How do I remove the hard drive from a Presario 12XL300 Notebook PC? Do I remove the all the screws on the bottom of the laptop? What else needs to be done? Thanks -- John Lundquist 2603 93rd Trail N Brooklyn Park, MN 55444

Does anyone have this driver? Thanks. -- Herb Stein

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1810 laptop and I’m having problem with the configuration (detect) of the internal modem in Win2k, as you know it originally comes with Win98. I have tried with many drivers and I couldn’t get it work for me (don't detect it). Can someone help me with this problem?..,...

Hello, I am a very new owner of a Compaq 2178 laptop which on the case is named as a Presario 2100. Is this normal? Also when the battery is fully charged does it go on cooking (or over charging) by being connected to the mains? Would it be best once the battery is charged up to remove it and just...

I have a Compaq Presario 6000 here that I am working with and it only has 128mb ram ( I really thought the base systems had more than this) but that is what the system resources say. I cannot be sure that at one time this machine had more than this, just that this is what it has now. I also...

Hello. Yesterday I decided to upgrade this laptop to win xp. The upgrade went fine except for the touchpad and ps/2 port dying. I have tried all the Synaptic drivers at Compaq and the Synaptic website but to no avail. The Synaptic drivers won't install because they don't see the...

Any idea where I can find them? There are 2 of them, mine are scratched and some files are unreadable,any other options besides replacement? TIA!

I received a Compaq Presario 1700 Notebook (model number 17XL365) from my neighbor a while ago. The laptop's OS (Windows XP) was in bad shape, so I decided to reformat the whole hard drive. Big mistake. After formatting the whole hard drive, I found out that the Quick Restore CD only contains...

I have tried to boot into Windows Me on my 1200 presario laptop without luck. I keep getting the message that the registry can't be found. I tried the recovery CD which came with the laptop, but it don't work as expected. My IBM desktop came with a similar cd, and it works as expected to erase the...

Just got a Powerleap adapter (PL-iP3/T) + Celeron 1400 (Tualatin) package in the mail today, and found out it that it does indeed work in my Deskpro EN SFF. I wasn't sure it would, since Powerleap's compatibility database did not have a listing for this adapter on the SFF Deskpro. Quite an...

Has anyone bought that $500 Compaq Presario now on sale at Walmart (AMD Athlon XP 2400+)? Is it any good? We have a Compaq Presario 5245 that we bought new a few years ago (AMD-K6-2, 400MHz).

My Compaq(SerialNo. 8136FR4Z08RH) stopped booting telling me to change keyboard. Friend from India said, bring the motherboard here we will put a bit of solder on key-mouse-motherboard. Decided to scrap it. Put it sideways to scavange it for hdd, cards.

Now that I've made the move from dial-up to high speed (DSL) I'm ready to ditch my five year old Compaq very soon. The main problem I have with this computer is that it has always crashed a lot and seems to crash more and more. It's running Windows ME, 850MHz Pentium III, 128MB ram. Now that I'm...

Hi, I got this small,old but fine maschine. In the default configuratoin it works fine, but when I insert a PCI-card in the extension-slot I get a system crash. Now I would like to try a BIOS-Update, but I could not find my system on the compaq/hp website So how could I get the right ROMPaq ? I...

I have a Presario 2110ca notebook and need to update the bios. When I try to update them I get an error message: "This BIOS is not for your notebook pc." I have tried bios updates for most 2100-2110 notebooks but all say the same error message. My notebook says Presario 2100 on it but has a...

I'm look for 1 (just had one break) Stand Feet/Foot for a Compaq 1692 Laptop. Does anyone have one around somewhere that I could purchase I think any 1600 series has the same case. Just upgraded the thing to XP so I think it has a little useable life left in it. Thanks Please Email to...