I bought a Compaq Presareo tower computer used and it has Windows ME on it. The problem is it did not come with any of the original disks. Can someone tell me where to get the restore disks? Remove from my email address the no spam. Ted

Hello All, I have a Compaq Presario 5184 AMD K62 380 with 128 megs ram I would like to do a clean/fresh install of Windows XP Professional. The problem is this system is not bootable via CDrom or floppy but will only boot with the restore disk. I have checked the BIOS as well. Anyone know where I...

How do I get into BIOS Setup on a Presario 4712 to change boot order? Tried F1 & F10 and got message saying "no diagnostics partition". Original HD failed so replaced and need to install Win98 from CD. Compaq/HP site no help at all. Googled, but no joy. Thanks for any help! -- Be seeing...

How the hell do I get into BIOS Setup on a Presario 4712 to change boot order? Tried F1 & F10 and got message saying "no diagnostics partition". Original HD failed so replaced and need to install Win98 from CD. Compaq/HP site no help at all. Googled, but no joy. Thanks for any help! -- Be...

Circuit city warranty When I bought my extended warranty, they said everything except the battery was cover. Now there is a crack in the laptop case which is spreading and there help line says that it is cosmetic and not cover. Is this normal? Can I do anything about his?

Well, it wasn't 3x256. Looks like the 3x128 or 384 is the max. Bought 3 256 sticks and no luck. I think I have the latest BIOS, but have you ever tried to find an update? Impossible. $280 down the drain unless I can return.

I got one of these a few months ago, upgraded to a bigger hard drive and more RAM, and am happy with it now. The first one I got was a lemon (the computer), so I took it back and exchanged it. The second one (the computer) was OK, but the monitor konked out within a few days. I sent the...

Hi All, I have a Compaq Deskpro EN, it's a 1GHz machine but I would like to make it faster. Are there any comments regarding worthwhile CPU upgrades or perhaps overclocking? I notice that when I am doing processor intensive operations, i periodically get CPU over temperture alarms which suggests...

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...

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I have Compaq deskpro tower computer. It has a p3 550 cpu. I think the model number is Deskpro EP BX/P550. I was just wondering what the highest cpu I could put in. Thanks Jay

Finally I managed to get my iPAQ synchronize with ActiveSync on my desktop via Bluetooth. Read about how I did it at http://www.logodesignworks.com/iPAQ-activesync-bluetooth-synchronization.htm Best of luck! Jeff

I have not been able to get any decent support from those people ever since they moved their support centers to India. I am so tired of calling those people only to get the same automated responses I would get by asking a stupid paperclip. Those people really have no clue and are very difficult to...

Got 2 hard drives. C(NTFS,p. master). D(fat32,s. master). I can't access C from a dos boot disk. no surprise there. but i can not access the d drive either. the only thing i can think of is that the drive(8gig) is not seen properly by the bios. it sees the size but not cylinders,etc. i can...

Hi there. I have been trying to get USB on my presario 1020. (it's got a 120Mhz proc). I just wiped the drive and installed Win98SE. HP Compac support said I could do it with a PCMCIA card, which I purchased. But it does not recognize the card at all, even though I used the installation disk...

Anyone have trouble after +/- 1 year ? I can burn or read most media. :( I have notebook presario 915. Thank's

Well, I still haven't found the drivers for the PCI Standard ISA bridge on this 1200 series Compaq POS. Can anybody help me out? This is for a friend of my parents. The guy infected his PC with a few viruses (no lie I detected several in about 70% of the exe files on the HD) so I juss wiped it...

Does anyone know where to get drivers for this monitor to make it work at least somewhat correctly on a non Compaq Windows XP system? I have gotten one of these and can't seem to find any drivers to make the buttons on the front of it work. Thanks Bill

How do I change the password of a Presario 1270 notebook? I've been pressing F8 during bootup, but it just takes me to the password screen then it boots intomWindows. Thanks, Michael

Can anyone tell me how to open a compaq presario 7170 case. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.