I have a Compaq Evo N160 notebook in for repair. My diagnosis is that the ATI video subsystem has failed. It blue screens when started in the regular manner, starts up just fine in safe mode. Hard drive, CPU and memory diagnostics all run flawlessly. Anybody ever encountered this...

Hi, Ive been searching for a multiport cover for a while for my Evo N600c Laptop. I do not want to buy the full plastics kit - anyone any idea where I may be able to get just the silver cover which fits on the top of the laptop. Tried ebay with no luck.

Hi, My laptop does not boot up at all. Power cord and main battery seems to work. I tried to find out the description of the problem in Service Manual but not found anything. 1) When the AC power cord is plugged in (even if the main battery is not installed) the battery LED (orange light) is...

Im working on a Compaq n610c laptop. It runs fine off of AC power. When I remove the AC cable there is a distinct squeal coming from the computer. I have disassembled it and found that the squeal was coming from the area of the DC-DC converter which is mounted right above the processor. I...

Hello i have a evo n800v notebook with 40gb harddisk. the problem is that the disk is very loud when he isn't in use. during reading data he is quiet but when he has finished he makes some "click" noises. i had never problems with the functionallity of the disk. have someone the same problem? can i...

Can anyone help me with a set of original cd's for the above Happy to pay you for your time? Please reply (removing MAPS) Thanks David

Can anyone help me with a set of original cd's for the above Happy to pay you for your time? Please reply (removing MAPS) Thanks David

Hi all, I have bought for testing purposes a refurbed Compaq EVO T30 thin client device with Win XPe, unfortunately it hasnt came with any CDs and I think it should come with some management software so I can install patches and reset to factory etc. At the moment any configs I make are reset on...

I recently aquired a Compaq EP/p500 (ex Corporate) It had Windows 98 on it, so i formatted it and, when i went to install XP i was informed that "an operating system is already in the folder you are trying to install XP on" or some such guff. I proceeded with the install and it installed fine,...

The RA4000 and RA4100 fibre array software warns you that you cannot expand drives when they run under Windows 2000. What is the observed behavior for such cases? I tried to do it with a small sample NTFS volume I created, and it worked without any problems at all. -- Will Internet: westes at...

Anyone know where I can get an expansion cable/base for a Compaq X6000 laptop? I can't find it online. Thanks, Dave

hello, I added two 36 gig drives to my Compaq DL380 and booted into the SmartStart CD 5.3. I wanted to add these two drives to an existing Array1 (Win2k Server is installed on Array1). I went through the wizard , said yes i wanted to expand the drives, but when i went through extend .... it said it...

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!

Does anyone know if there exists an external battery charger available for a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop? My laptop has a loose connection when the A/C charger is plugged in; this was fixed by Compaq less than a month ago and it has broken again -- is this a common problem or a design defect? In...

I have a Compaq Presario 1510T which is Really an Evo N100C, as I just discovered... My AC adapter does not charge the batteries any longer. Gave it in to fix, but it couldn't be fixed for some reason. Is there an external battery charger that would work with this model (also compatible with...

The documentation that comes with this, even on line, is laughable. 1) It has one 512MB module. Can I add a 256MB for a total of 768MB, or must I add a 512MB? 2) Will any DDR2 work, or is there something special required? Thanks.

I have a Compaq EZ2200 computer, but I need the QUICKRESTORE CD for it. Compaq doesn't have it anymore. Does anyone one that I could purchase or one that your could make a copy of for me. I would be most grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please advise! Jim

"NuT CrAcKeR" wrote in message ... sure... at about 12KBps... running those tools from floppy is a nightmare. Great advice, there champ. Original Poster, Make sure that your dive does not have ANY partitions...

Greetings, I have a 5440 that I used for a couplke years then it came up... "boot disk read erroe" I removed the hard drive and have desided to build another machine so to Ebay it goes! If you need a parts machine, it can be seen...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2785167311 Compaq Fibre Channel Connection Kit. This is new in the box and contains the two Fibre Channel patch cables, and two GBICs. The GBICs alone are worth allot of money. They are IBM Serial Optical Converters. (SOC-1063N PN 21H9872 ...