windows xp pro manualy installed on this machine which went badly wrong....in the process the user partition was formatted..... pressing f10 now won't start the restore procedure from the hard disk...the resovery partition is still there but files there are hidden so i cant see what is...

Also were can I purchase a boot disk. Titus Francoeur

Hi, Can someone please explain the funtion of the 3rd pin on a typical laptop power jack? Specifically a presario 1210us, but I imagine the purpose is similar in most laptops. Thanks

Hi, I got a compaq presario 5240 and i want to make a clean installation of Xp on it. Anybody who can tell me how the enter the Bios, so i can set the dvd player as first boot device, and format the whole hd ? Thanks in advance!

Hi, My name is Todd, and I have a used Compaq Armada 3500. A friend of mine gave it to me almost a year ago, and I have been using it for quite a lot ever since then. Just today, I was typing some papers this morning, and then I went to put it into Stand-By, but I didn't bother to see if it went...

Anyone know if the above is an NLX card that will fit into a Deskpro EN / anyone have one or something better NLX form factor that they could send me for max £ 4 to a UK postcode. -- And to all those opposed... Hmm...well *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com ***

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...

Hi, I have hit a wall. I wiped the drive and reloaded win98. The load goes alright, but on the restart for the final set-up the machine locks. I can load in safe mode, but cannot find anything. I have tried this several times. I even went back and started with a win95 load, which worked fine. ...

I have an older Deskpro SFF system. Model #ENS/P600/13b/9/64c. It uses the Intel 810e chipset. BIOS ROM is 686J1 v2.10. I'm wondering what is the largest hard drive it can use? Currently it has a Seagate 13GB HD. Is it subject to the 32GB limit? Does anyone know? Thanks much. Patty

I`m thinking about putting a cheap PII450 Slot 1 CPU upgrade in this machine it is possible. I had a quick look at the current CPU a few weeks back and it doesn't look like a Slot 1 CPU although it must be - its mounted flat instead of upright. I haven't bothered to take a closer inspection but...

I've been having ongoing problems with the power plug on my Compaq Presario 2100. Now the battery's dead. Does anyone know if there's an external battery charger you can buy for the 2100? Thanks!

Hi, Can anyone tell me how do I get into the bios of a prosignia 740 to get the thing to boot off of a cd. I'm trying to install CentOS 4.2 but I cannot get into the bios to make it boot off the cd, when it gets through the POST I can access a system configuration program which has a setting that...

Hi, I need a replacement motherboard for a presario laptop 1210us with an AMD processor (about 800mhz). So as to broaden my search, does anyone know about compatibility with other models in the 1200 series, or any other series? Thanks

It is a known problem that the tray won't open with the CyberDrv CW058D CD-R/RW which comes on certain Compaq models such as mine. It worked fine for over a year, and this problem only appeared recently. There is no known solution. However I have found a workaround... --Insert a paperclip in the...

Hey all , Fisrt post here. I am planning on putting a 260GB harddrive in my tower and removing the 40GB that's in there. I just bought windowsXP full with sp2. I've just heard some people say that my presario would not run right with a hard drive that large. Any ideas about this ???

One month ago I asked: I've been told that some manufacturers were used to "tattooing" their hard disk or motherboard in order to prevent people from installing the system on other computers, and I wonder whether it applies to my presario 18xl485 laptop, the hard disk of which has been changed....

One of the nice features of the 4000 series fibre channel arrays was that you could get away with using generic hotswap SCSI drives in the arrays, as long as you had Compaq trays for them. Do the newer SATA RAID arrays have the ability to use generic SATA drives in Compaq hotswap trays? -- Will

Hi I was given an old presario 1600s which was in a terrible state so I decided to wipe it clean and start again with just windows 98se using the cab files on the computer. Only windows 98se is re installed except for the sound driver which I and the computer cannot find. Any ideas? I do not...

hello, i am trying to install a Netgear FA511 Network adapter on my old compaq presario 1200-xl 109. as soon as the PC card is in the slot, then the PC freeze and I get a blue screen. after removing the card, I have to shut down the PC and to switch in again. I have performed a " complete system...

I have no plans on going to a new PC as this one is still working fine. However there are some things I would like to do to make it work better. Replacing the 800 MHz AMD Athlon processor (slot). Any ideas of a processor I could install with minumal trouble? My mother board can go up to a 1...