I have a compaq 4/25c with a 2818 speedpaq 14.4 modem which works fine. This modem has 2 plug ins. What is the 2nd plug in for (not a standard phone plug)? I see on the web they call this modem an expansion module, whatever that means. I have no manuaks for this computer but if anyone has one I...

I am new owner of a Presario 4504 (a dubious honor) and am tying to install a 20g drive in place of the factory installed (5") 2g unit. Besides the mounting being different, it does not recognize the OS and fails to boot. The new drive is loaded w/XP How do I tell The System that there is a new...

I have an old Compaq 4508 that is just sitting at my feet as I type. I was wondering if anyone knows if the mobo, powersupply, everthing inside the case could be scraped and put in a new micro-atx mobo with a slim design power supply. I have not found any specs on what the design is, but I...

Hi, When I try to boot my Compaq 4840 I get the following "Fan Not Present - System Halted" How would I disable this check or bypass it? I have a fan that runs through the HDD power that connected to my massive heat shink. I am running a PII 266MHz. Thanks, Isaiah

I have a relative's Presario 5WV254 that is killing me. I attempted to do an OS upgrade to Win XP Pro (from ME). The software did it's compatibility check, said it was ok, and I started. Locked up half way through the install. Attempted many things... but ended up removing the hard drive,...

My DVD drive says it's disabled and I cannot enable it. I've barely used this drive--what would cause it to be disabled and how do I enable it so I can use it? Pat

Is $300 (Cdn) too much to pay for the following PC? 750 MHz AMD® Duron T Processor 64 MB 100 MHz SyncDRAM 30.0 GB 2 UltraDMA Hard Drive 40X Max CD-ROM Drive 3 nVIDIA T TNT2 T Vanta LT Graphics Card with 8 MB video memory I realise it's a tad old now, but is it a fairly good price for (what...

Where can I find out how much memory this with take? This box has ME can I upgrade to XP? The cpu is a Athlon 900mhz Any help would be appreciated Jim

Can someone recommend a decent 64mb agp video card for this box? it came with an 8mb. The display has black streaks to the right of any graphics, it won't restore the drivers and I keep getting an error message stating the device is not functioning properly. I think the card is toast. Thanks Jim

I can't figure out what happened. I turned the thing off ,moved it to the other side of the room and now there's no video.I hooked up the monitor to my lap top and it works fine. When you turn on the monitor if it's not hooked up to the machine I get a message Check video cables. Then when I hook...

I have a Compaq 5000T where I tried restore to factory defaults using the 2 Quickrestore CD's that ware packed with the system. The first one worked OK but the computer was unable to read the second one. Although the disk appeared to have data on it, I'm unable to find any file or open...

I have a heavily modified 5000US (replaced drive, filled ram, replaced chip, replaced videocard, etc) and would like to keep it for a while, but the power supply noise is killing me. It has this horrible whine to it. A quick look at it suggests its ATX sized, but can anyone confirm this? Yeah, I...

When this computer boots into windows, it gives an error saying 'vxdmgr32.exe' could not be found in C:/windows/system32 so all I'm wondering is where to start with an issue like this. That exe doesn't even exist on the hard drive anywhere. If you can think of any more info I've left out, let me...

Was given a 5005 SR desktop. Looking for Windows 98 video drivers for the onboard video. Have gone to the Compaq driver page and found audio and other drivers, but no video. Anyone have any other source? Thanks Terry

We installed an anti-virus software. We deleted the bad files. We rebooted. At reboot we got 3 choices 1,2,3. one choice for step by step , one choice for safe mode start up and one other choice. However we get errors problem with register and memory cache. We attempt to put in boot recover disk,...

Can someone tell me what type of RAM I have. I want to upgrade.

have run spybot,ccleaner,defrg,aware,etc. and what can i try to speed it up? 350 MHz AMD-K6-2 Processor with 3DNow!TM technology 512KB L2 Pipeline Burst Cache 100 MHz system bus 348 mg. Ram 58% system resources free 32 bit file system 4.0 GB Hard drive 3.5GB used

I have a Compaq 5080US which is just sitting at the red logo splash screen. When it powers up the keyboard lights come on for a second and the floppy lights up for a second but it does not appear to try to boot from the floppy nor the hard drive. Pressing F1, F10, CTRL-ALT-DELETE...

System locks up after 20minutes to 2 hours if you run graphic related programs. Even the slide show in My Pictures. It will lock up on about anything but much quicker if running graphics. My son thought it was the graphics card he added so I took it out and ran the embbed board with the same...

I have a 5140 that I used complete restore on. Back to original. However not paying attention it did it's magic and now it is ask ing for the W98 key number and in several moves I lost it. Is there any way to recover it (the W98 key number) from the restore disk?