I have a 5250 that still works great and woudl like to format the hard drive and install Windows 98 but I have a problem. I need the Start Floopy Disk to do the formate and then the CD ROM to install but the units can not be in at the same time and the unit is not Hot Swapable. Can anyone tell me...

Remote location. Family member's Presario 5000 just bit the big one. Over the phone, it sounds like the power supply. I've got a couple of ATX power supplies laying around and I drive down there for other reasons periodically. How proprietary is the Compaq unit?

hello, i need the PASSWORD for the FACTORY.PQI etc drive image files that are on the recovery cd for my laptop. i want to have a good look inside the image with drive image 2002 and maybe be able to restore individual files etc via image explorer in drive image program. many thanks oostrich

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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...

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Hi! Pls - where can I download this File?? HP have canceld the download for this file - but I need it for config my Notebook...

Howdy, I am adding a PCI sound card to a Presario 5WV260, do I need to disable the on board sound card ?? Or is it automatically disabled when I insert the new card ?? Thanks Mr D

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...

I just restored my system with the Quick Restore CD. I need to uninstall the Network Associates (Mcafee) Antivirus. Does anybody know how I can do this? It does not show up in my Add/Remove programs. Thank you, Robert

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 Presario 5461 whose original 10GB Quantum hard drive is damaged. I replaced it with a 40GB Western Digital drive but now the machine won't boot up from the CDROM, even though the boot order is set in the bios to floppy = cdrom = HDD. In fact, I don't see any screen in the BIOS...

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Compaq Presario 6000 Windows XP Using Slow Dialup connection with factory modem Connection drops out after 1 or 2 minutes, no warning or error messages.. Have to redial and reconnect every 2 minutes typical. (even though connection drops I have to tell computer to disconnect before I can...

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 all, I'm trying to install a USR wireless card (USR5410) in my Presario 1210 laptop (Pentium 150 Mhz, 128 Mb Ram, etc). According to USR, the minimum spec is a Pentium 100. The laptop won't detect the card being inserted but it does detect it being pulled out (beeps). I've done a fresh install...

Hi, I've got a refurb 6325cl presario. It has a bad habit of locking up. When this happens the screen shrinks to ~80% of normal size and oscillates wildly. The PC becomes totally locked up - no inputs allowed at all - keyboard mouse - nothing. I can reset by holding the power button for...

Hi all, I'm helping a friend with her old Compaq Presario 1235. It was running Win 98 VERY slowly so I decided to reformat and reinstall Win 98 SE as it is probably loaded with spyware, etc. I formatted the drive, created a Win 98 SE bootdisk, booted to the floppy, and later set the bios to boot to...

"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...

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...