Davy, Thanks again for the help and the laughs,lol. I'll post the question at the link you provided and see where it goes from the. If more people are as helpful as you then it shouldn't take to long to get some opinions. Great idea about the reviews to as I might try that avenue also.

Yikes... when it comes to laptops I'm the dumb blondes mate, no harm to drop a post in Laptops to ask there, here's the link http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/viewforum.php?f=13 When my Epson 62 printer conked.... "ok, ok don't laugh" I wanted a printer, I refuse to believe the write ups and...

Davy, A friend of mine is searching for a laptop for her son for college. My daughter has a dell and I have this compaq here but I'm still finding it hard to determine what manufacture makes a solid laptop that lasts. I haven't owned an apple or a sony to compare to so that makes helping her...

Righto Steve, well ya gotta appreciate it can be almost anything, the ol' psu leads the hardest life in a computer has it has to run and deliver a good 'reasonable' ripple free DC to power all, the heat that the CPU has to get shut off the power unit gotta deliver. When I mentioned the fans being...

Davy, Thanks so much for taking the time to reply and also for the chuckle while reading your reply. I just bought a new PSU off ebay which I should get by the end on this coming week. I'll cross my fingers and go from there once it arrives. The fan spins easily and looks to be very clean so I'm...

When I press the power button it lights up blue for about one second and then goes out. Even when plugged into an outlet the same thing happens. No fans, no hard drive nor even the screen works. The power button light just goes out. Can anyone help me with this issue as I cannot afford another...

A while back I posted about a buggy presario I was using, a 1610 to be exact. Problem was system would freeze each time u moved touchpad and pressed key as same time, require hard reboot. Despite my skepticism, everyone here was so sure the firmware/drivers at the Compuke , now HP website would...

I need restore disks for my Compaq Presario 6350US. TIA

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Hi, I have a Compaq Armada 1540DM laptop. I purchased an Ethernet PC card for it about a month ago. I used it that day and it worked fine. A week later, I noticed a strong smell coming from the laptop, and when the screen comes on, in the right hand corner, the display area is brighter than the...

This is in regard to my N610c laptop computer. The Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys have failed to function. An external keyboard plugged into the back of the computer works fine. I can get uppercase letters with caps lock, but that doesn't get me the characters over the numbers. I have...

I have a Compaq DL580 and it was seeming to work ok when i first first plugged it in after getting it home. It booted and i got video and it errored about the drive controller... I didnt have all of the drive slots populated at the time so that could have been the reason, im not sure if it is one...

Hello, Is there any way to silence that horrible beep when switching on my old Compaq LTE 5300 laptop? I've tried looking in the BIOS, but couldn't find anything. Thank you, J.D.

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Hi everyone, I have a Compaq Presario 2700US which is giving me a big headache. For some reason sometimes it won't boot up. Actually it just does not turn on the screen but won't work with an external monitor either. The cdrom starts reading and everything but the screen... of course it won't get...

I have 2 same Compaq Armada E500 laptops. In one of them i lost the power-on password and i can't turn it on. What can i do? -- mitnik ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mitnik's Profile: http://www.futurehardware.in/member.php?userid=512 View this thread:...

I'm reinstalling WinXP into an Armada E700 laptop for a friend. It had got messed up pretty bad, so had to reformat the hard drive and start from scratch. The Compaq LAN drivers (SP22996) will not install because "...there is no Intel Network Driver..." Intel's network driver will not...

I seriously want to get my Compaq armada m700 to run Windows 3.1. I have no clue how. In messing around with it, I trashed my WinXP partition, so let's assume that I'll be starting with a blank hard disk. Idealy, I would like to end up with Windows 3.1 running on a 500mb partition, and Windows...

Any help with these bugs, either causes or solutions? 1610 Presario 80mb ram. system freezes requiring hard reboot when touchpad cursor is moved at same time as keystroke. win98se system reports no conflicts. hardware acceleration already set to lowest. battery and system interaction very...

I keep getting numerous printer spooler errors after trying to print. I have windows xp operating system. I did the misconfig to increase my speed at startup and may have done something wrong. Can someone help please? I have tried all of the help and support options and they have only gotten me...