Hello, I offered to fix-up my sister's Presario 1245 laptop (Windows 98 installed), and discovered Compaq's odd D: drive partition, titled "System_Save", which in addition to stealing space from C:, seems to get copies of everything removed from the Recycle Bin. (I noticed this because emptying...

I have upgraded this machine to WinXP and it can still boot from the CD drive, but does not recognize the drive's existence once started. Thanks.

I have a Presario 1600. Everything was working great last week. Today, I was cleaning up my old applications using "add/remove programs", and deleted an application I did not recognize, thinking my son may have put it on. All I can remember is that it had the word "flash" in it. In any event, now...

from their website...and now every bootup it is looking for the QR system. How can I remove this? Thank you in advance!

I need a Compaq Presario 5000 Series quick restore disk (windows ME) ..email me at if you have THANKS

Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1

DaveJohnson12@nospam. wrote: I'm using Windows 95b. I'm planning to buy a new CRT, maybe an HP-mx705. The computer is a Dell PII 300 MHz Dimension. The HP monitor has drivers for Windows 98 and above only. Is this going to be a problem? What is the purpose of the monitor drivers? Do I...

From: "M. Haseeb Iqbal" To: Subject: Compaq Presario X1000 problem Date: Monday, May 02, 2005 1:39 AM At first it was ON last night, I was doing some of the house hold works. All on a sudden I heard a Beep then looked into the screen, that was...

I have a new Gateway 506GR 3.2 computer with onboard sound. I would like to use my soundblaster sound card and sub woofer/speakers from my previous computer for a better sound system. I disabled the sound card in the bios and removed the drivers from the onboard card and installed the new card with...

How do I remove the hard drive from a Presario 12XL300 Notebook PC? Do I remove the all the screws on the bottom of the laptop? What else needs to be done? Thanks -- John Lundquist 2603 93rd Trail N Brooklyn Park, MN 55444

The original hard drive on this machine crapped out. I replaced the hard drive and then ran the QuickRestore program which ran to completion. However, once all 3 of the disks have been run through and it kicks out the last to do the reboot, the machine still does not work. It comes up with...

Finally my local phone company (SBC) if offering DSL in my area. At least that's what their web site says when I punch in my phone number Ok, they offer two packages - one is $19.95 and up to 1.5Mbps with free activation and modem. The other is 29.99 and up to 3.0Mbps with free activation and...

Ok, I just signed up for Earthlink DSL. I'm running Windows ME. I have McAfee anti-virus. So, after I get things hooked up in a few weeks (hopefully) what do I need to do next? I really haven't done any research into firewalls because I have been on dial-up and I have always heard the hackers...

The above machine is doing stirling service as a Linux backup system with samba. Memory is 128MB. It has two disks - the original 3.2GB and a 40GB plus a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. The system is flashed with the latest bios. What are the limits on this machine both in memory nad disks? I tried the 40GB...

Hallo, i need pinout for multiport slot of Compaq Evo. This is really USB port? Thanks.

Upgraded an old 5340 with a 20 gig drive and some compaq ram from ebay... used the quick restore cd to start fresh... boots fine, but after loading the compaq Win 98 SE disc will boot and run a few times but then gives a registry error message, then says win explorer has caused a fault and windows...

hi, i want to buy a second hand compaq laptop on ebay. it should have around 400-500 mhz and i think that this range is covered by the armada family (?). There are thousands of different armada´s out there and i would like to know which one was the best/high end model? Thanks, Euro

I'm running Windows ME. When I shut my computer off the floppy drive runs for a few seconds. I know it's supposed to do that when I start my computer but how do I stop it from doing that when I shut down?

I've been looking at the computers on the Compaq and Dell web sites more and more. Also been looking at the computers being sold on amazon.com. I've been looking at new computers for the last six months. Once I upgrade to DSL I would like to take my main computer (my Compaq Presario) and...

Im not sure if it's actually related to the COMPAQ machine but im having an error with my Proliant DL380 and the Smart Array 431 Controller. The details are in this post: http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/sutra499747.html#499747 Forgive me if this double posting is a problem. I only hoped...