Hello Wow, where has this website been? So glad I found it! I am having some problems with a Compaq Presario 7QSM11 (7000z series), Windows ME OS. Its my sisters computer and she brought it to me with a dead hard drive. I picked up a new WD 120GB Caviar (old drive was a WD 60GB). Set the jumpers...

Just search one of the big online sites like buy.com. Lots of nvidia and ati based choices. If you're connecting CRT monitors, not LCD, than I would be surprised if you wanted DVI. I've never seen a CRT that supports DVI. Doesn't even make sense as CRTs are not...

I am trying to help my daugther's nanny by upgrading her Presario to something better. I need to find out more details about the motherboard configuration but cannot find it anywhere, and compaq's website does not list that info. Basically, I need to know the fastest processor the mobo will...

For the last week or so, a Deskpro EXM/815/P1.0 running Win2K sp4 black screens and shuts down unexpectedly - 100% repeatable - during nightly Ghost 9.0 backup. Starts up again manually in the morning. I ran the Ghost job and babysat it during the daytime to see what happens and it does as...

I have a Compaq 5430 US with a geforce 4400ti graphics card and tried to upgrade to a geforce 6200 256 AGP. The card and drivers work but I get a 101- Option ROM Checksum Error (Add -in card not working properly) error upon bootup. I have the default 5430US motherboard, and a 250Watt power supply...

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Got an 80-gigger in there. Would like to put in a 120, 200, 250, or 300 - depending on what's on sale. Anybody know how to tell if the BIOS will support the larger sizes? -- PeteCresswell

The Presario 7PL290 (Presario 7000) has two 9-pin cables with connectors from the front of the case. The computer has a firewire card with a keyed 9-pin connector and a similar 9-pin connector on the motherboard. I replaced the motherboard after determining that it was failing, but I did not take...

I had 256MB of DDR PC3200 installed and wanted more. I thought I found a good deal on ebay 2 sticks of 1GB DDR PC3200 made my NCP. Ad stated that it was new. I install either or both of the sticks in either or both of the slots and get a beep and the computer won't start. Online chat with...

Over the last weekend my wife bought at a garage sale a Compaq Prosignia 500 and a NEC monitor and alot more goodies all for $10.00, WOW but now after turning the big beast on what I have on the monitor is "Configuration Nonvolatile Memory Invalid Initialization Aborted" and what follows on the...

"bobG" wrote in message ... I deleted my BIOS in my Compaq Deskpro 4000n 5233MMX. Oops. I know I can live without it, but I'd like to restore the BIOS partition if possible. I've done some searching in groups, and...

Thousands???? Maybe 10 years ago. Not today, dude. Welcome to the new Millenium. HH "PcBuilder" wrote in message ... If You Can Read And Hold A Screwdriver, Do It Yourself & Save Thousands ! ...

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 2266 desktop and the quick restore disk has been accidentally damaged and is no longer usable. Is there anyone out there that has one they would be willing to sell or make me a copy of. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would love to be able to restore this...

Hello! I have a problem with installing PCI sound card (chipset CMI 8738). My computer is Compaq Deskpro 2000 (Pentium MMX 200Mhz). I'm sure that the hardware isn't out of order. The computer does not detect the new device. Could anyone help me, please ? Marcin

I have an older box with a type 7 socket cpu running 350mhz in a Compaq presario 5150 desktop. I was told by compaq support that I could upgrade that to a 550mhz AMD-k6-2. What they couldn't tell me was what jumper settings that I would have to change to utilize the new processor. Can somebody...

I'm having problems upgrading to 48MB. I've tried replacing the 16meg Dimms with a 32megs dimm but only 8 megs of the card is being recognized. The 32 meg dimm is a 4x64-10ns 4 chip SDRAM 168 pin 3.3V unbuffered with eprom. I've pressed F10 at startup to reset the BIOS but it always indicates...

I have a Compaq T20 thin client with NTe and would like to Flash WinCE onto it, when I try to do it with netxfer I get and error that says "Security Key does not match" anyone know of a way to flash this thin client with WinCE? thanks

Hi, I have a Presario 80XL4 laptop and it's time to switch out the hard drive. I just got a 40 gig hd but the auto-detect stalls during boot. I thought it might be the BIOS but it turns out the latest update is March 2001 and the laptop already has it. Is there a size limit? The unit comes with...

I'm new to laptops so please bear with me a moment. I want to buy a new computer so I can install Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server on it. I'm getting ready for MS Certification and I need to setup a study lab. I would like to have a laptop for mobility and entertainment purposes. Here's my...

Anyone know where I can find one of these processor's fairly cheap? It is for my son's pc. Thanks Russ