I have a Compaq Evo n1020v. The display is very faint. There is almost no contrast. You can see it a little better if you have it at an extreme angle. I'm wondering if the whole display needs replaced or if it may be an inverter board, or something much less expensive to replace.

I have a Compaq Armada 1700 that originally had a 4 gig harddrive I just recently purchased a used 20 gig harddrive and installed it. After formating it and reinstalling the software it seemed to be alright. It even restarted fine. But when I turned the power all the way off and turned it on again...

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...

Hi to all, I have a Compaq TFT 450 flat panel monitor and the lowest part of my screen is becomming gray. Is someone familiar with this and how can I solve it ( or do I have to buy me a new one (!) ). Regards, Guus Kramer The Netherlands Please reply on

i have a compaq presario 1277 notebook and it wont trun on. when i plug it in, the green light in the front of it comes on, but that is it. the battery light does not and when i press the power button, nothing happens. can anyone help me??!!! PLEASE!!! blake haley

Hi, I've a Compaq P4 1.7Ghz with the Spider-S motherboard. I run WinXP pro. Recently, I bought a new graphics card, a HIS ATI Radeon 9550 (AGP). Problem is that it's impossible to have it installed. Windows says that the card isn't installed properly and won't be able to use it correctly. Greatful...

This problem has a long history that I will try to abbreviate. I once had occasional random error message, I called Circuit City Extended Warranty people (evil evil evil) and they had me reformat(?) and restore my pc. Oops, I quickly realized that process had lost my drivers for video , sound, and...

Hi, Was going something wrong in here, so I have to send again. I have still two questions about a presario 2210, hope somebody can give some help. 1. At the moment my display runs on " high colour, 16 bits ". Is this the highest quality possible for the videocard on the

My PC is a few years old and came with JBL Pro speakers. There seems to be a loose wire but I don't know if these speakers can be opened so I can repair it. Would anyone know? And how to do it. Thank-you

Does anyone know why both my Compaq and My daughters Advent both refuse to write to dvd+rs, even though mine is dvd+rw and daughter's is +/-? Both machines see new discs as full with zero information on them. Thanks in advance, Phil.

Sorry for the OT, but this is an odd question at best and I looking to solicit an answer from the best sources I know of. For business reasons, I am looking for an adapter so that a VGA monitor (15 Pin) can be connected to an older PC using EGA Video (9 Pin). Not sure such an item exist, but I...

When did Compaq begin using ATX motherboards? I have a broken Gateway (with FlexATX MB and ATX PS) computer, and I think the power supply is what's gone bad. I'm hoping to use the power supply from a Compaq that is about 6 years old. I haven't seen the old Compaq yet, and I don't know if it's worth...

I have a 1625 that has no video output, either at the lcd or at the monitor port.... Would this be a bad interface or is it the motherboard... When it tries to post all I get is a series of beeps, one and then three beeps and then it repeats... Compaq is no help... I have the ability to disassmble...

Hello All, I have a Compaq Presario 5184 AMD K62 380 with 128 megs ram I would like to do a clean/fresh install of Windows XP Professional. The problem is this system is not bootable via CDrom or floppy but will only boot with the restore disk. I have checked the BIOS as well. Anyone know where I...

Hi I have a problem with my armada 3500 When a power on i have to compaq logo but nothing else. Notebook make continuous beep, but seem to search something on diskette and hard drive ... If i power on with FN + F11, he don't beep for 5 secondes but does nothing too. Any tip for that ? Thanks

Hi folks, I'm having a couple of problems with my new (well, just bought) AP400 700Mhz. F10 doesn't work to enter setup - I can't enter setup at all. I have installed the Compaq diagnostics setup into its own partition from the Softpaq floppies, but nothing happens. All I get is the word 'setup'...

Hi all, I have a compaq presario 1277. After a windows 98se to XP upgrade, the keyboard started to behave erratically.It just didn't work or it didn't output the correct characters.System worked fine otherwise.After a day or so, the laptop started to emit beeps during the POST.one beep then...

I have a Compaq Prosignia that insists on booting from a network and only a network. How do I manage to change this so it will boot from a floppy, hard drive, or CD like any other computer? I know there is probably a setting in the CMOS for this, but I can't find it. Could someone out there help...

Was given a 5005 SR desktop. Looking for Windows 98 video drivers for the onboard video. Have gone to the Compaq driver page and found audio and other drivers, but no video. Anyone have any other source? Thanks Terry

Hi, I have a broken Compaq T1500h UPS. It broke when I removed main power without unplugging the connected devices first (I wanted to test the battery). So, my question is: Which component has the highest probability of breaking first, in a situation like the above? I guess it isn't the battery,...