I have a 12-year-old Compaq Presario CDS 520 desktop machine that (astonishingly) is still running after all these years - however, it's recently become highly tempramental as to whether it wants to power up or not, and I suspect the cause of this is that the CMOS battery needs replacing. The...

Hi, I have a Compaq NC4000 modem without the "wall wart" transformer thingy and I'm wondering if anyone happens to know what specs a replacement needs, volts, amps and polarity? And no, it isn't a laptop, definately a modem! The number 339607-101 from the label appears

I have a Compaq Armada M700. Went on vacation. When I arrived back home, it was dead. I did not bring it with me. Symptoms: The battery LED (amber) in front will blink 8 times with a few seconds pause between each cycle. The hard drive LED over the keyboard will glow very dim. It will not respond...

Hi, I have an old Compaq Deskpro. Not sure of the model number because there is nothing specific written on the case. I got it to boot a few times and it was running Windows 95, Pentium II (I think it was 450Mhz but not sure), 32 mg RAM, 9-10 gb HD. It refused to boot for quite a while but then it...

I had a disk read error on my Presario 2108US running XP Home and had to reformat and reinstall the OS. It now will boot and run fine but it takes 25 minutes to boot. I'm serious, literally 25 minutes to boot. Once booted it seems to run fine, not slow, connects to the Internet, etc. I looked in...

thats basically it...i just bought a laptop off of my friend...he had never used headphones with it...it is a compaq r3240us...so whenever i plug in headphones, the sound still comes out of the comp speakers....im pretty good with computers and have messed with the sound settings and everything and...

I have a Proliant 1850R with Windows 2000 that in Device Manager | System Devices shows a yellow error/exclamation next to: Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to USB The Internet is loaded with users with the same error across a large number of different systems. One user reported that it was due to a...

I need to change the bios battery and the harddrive in this laptop.How do I ge it open to get at the parts in side?

Hi there, My M700 has an intermittent problem resuming from standby (waking from s3 suspend to RAM) in Windows XP SP2. It will always suspend happily, and the little power light flashes on and off, but it will only wake up about 2/3 of the time. Very frustrating. I have tried: - Installing all...

Hi, I have a 6GB Seagate hard drive with an HP label on it. I tried adding it to my ancient Compaq 4506 with an existing 3.2 GB hard drive but, alas,I encountered a problem. I can't get the hp hard drive to be recognized!!! And I don't mean that it just does not show up along with the original...

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I have a Presario 710 US. It has an Athlon 1 Ghz processor, Windows XP, 256 RAM and a 20 Gb Hard drive. I recently bought a used hard drive but it was having the same problem with the old hard drive. I thought it might have been a bad hard drive so I tried a new hard drive I used the system...

Hello, my name is Walter Maldonado. I am 15 years old and have intermediate expertise in computing, except today when I had a problem. I need an expert's hand with this. I installed a 802.11g Wireless PCI card perfectly in my system, and I started having a problem after that. My 4860 has Windows...

I have replaced my Dell computer with a Compaq Presario SR1730Z, with an AMD 3400 processor. It seems to be louder and sqeaks more than the Dell was, and the web pages seem to load up slower. Anyone else have this problem? Also, how does one open up the case to clean out the dust ?

Any ways of either running the fans at lower speeds (I was thinking about lowering voltage, since stopping the fans would cause a shutdown) That machine will be in a rack, along with my switch, UPS and a home-made disk array. So it doesn't need jet-engine fans to cool those 4 poor...

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 currently have a 40GB hard drive for this PC which is almost full. I think it is an UATA100. If I get another hard drive, can this model PC only take AT100 and not AT133? Is there any hard drive size restriction? It is a relatively old model. What type of RAM can it take for an upgrade?

Hi all, Newbie to this forum and I need help with a confusing problem. I have just converted a P3 1 Gig EN Sff with a tv out card for use as a media pc. I have bought an Acer Airkey IR wireless keyboard for it. With the keyboard and mouse connectors plugged in (both go to the IR box) the PC...

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?...

lovemorewrote: I do have a Compaq Evo with a motherboard with the following code number : MS-6541 VER :1.0. It has an onboard sound card, I'm looking for the drivers of this onboard sound card. looking forward to your response. You can download the driver at the following link