I am looking for a set of recovery disks for a Compaq Presario 7478. Can anyone help me please?

Purchased From PC World (Poole, Dorset in England) Usage: Used as a PC on a flat clean stable surface Never moved when on. After 10 months the Hard Disk Fails!! He takes it back to PC World, they send it out to PC Service Call. The customer gets it back, but it is running slow, only when he...

Is it possible, and if so, how, to rip Windows Me off my system restore cd or system drive D? I have a Presario 7000 series and after I took a bunch of stuff off, it works just fine. I am very pleased with it and have had no problems in a long time. Anyway, I recently bought a used laptop for...

Suddenly my Compaq Presario 2200 laptop has developed a "2 1/2 inch opaque white band running vertically from top to bottom of the screen. Against a white background it's barely visible but it's very apparent against any colored background. Anyone familiar with this problem? I'd welcome any...

I need to make a Boot Disk so I can get to the command prompt. However, I do not have a floppy drive on my Compaq like I do on my older Dell. I just have a Pioneer DVR110. Is there anyway to create a boot disk with a CD?

I am a MAC user that also uses and owns a couple of PC's. I would like to upgrade my Hard Drive in one of my PC's from 80GB to 400GB. I have the Hard Drive. On a MAC I know exactly how to Clone my HD to the new drive. On a MAC I use SuperDupe to move all my stuff from one drive to another. IT...

Hello everyone. I had a friend who wanting me to format his computer and reinstall his Win OS. I did and now I can't get the sound to work. There is no yellow or red sign in front of the sound in device Manger. If you go into the sounds and audio device the volume control pointer move all the way...

Does Compaq support XP on the Presario 5140? When switched to XP the USB ports no longer work. I went to the download Drivers site, and put in the model number and only shows Windows 98 and Windows 95... Am I out of luck on this? :crybaby:

All of a sudden I do not have sound on my Compaq Presario 500. I am running Windows XP. I ran the Windows troubleshooter which said that the device was working properly. I checked all connections and uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers but still have no sound. Any ideas? When I "play" a CD...

Hi all, I have a problem with my laptop. (FYI: I dont understand much about computers) My notebook is Compaq presario 2570 notebook, intel pentium 4, 3.06 GHz processor, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, 56k modem. About 2 months ago, my laptop did not recognize the cd/dvd player. Few weeks after...

I have a Evo desktop that appeared to have a blown power supply. I replaced the power supply and now the power led is flashing at a one second interval when turned on. What I can find on the internet points to a bad ROM and one poster had this problem and flashed the BIOS to fix it. I reset the...

I put an IBM 10 gig drive on a Compaq and loaded winXP home. I then put the hard drive in a clone pc and it wont boot. If I put the drive back in the compaq machine it boot just fine? Is there some kind of boot record on it or something telling it to boot from a compaq bios only? I need to use the...

I own a Compaq Presario 1505US. The problem appears to be with the lcd display. It randomly displays several rows of either blue or pink horizontal lines each formed of this small lines; something like this |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| I connected it to a different monitor and had the same...

I am running a compaq deskpro en Pen III 833 win2k sp4. I am attempting to install a couple of pci cards(firewire, pci to pcmcia adapter) in the expansion riser. The machine turns on but will not go to post with the firewire card. The boot sequence is cdrom,a,c. With the pcmcia card the cdrom...

Hi: I have the above shown laptop and it doesn't want to boot. A screen message says the RTC batery needs replacing. If I leave it powered for a while it will boot after I reset the CMOS defaults so it appears to be okay except for that battery. Oddly, though, the system clock has never lost...

I had to perform a "quickrestore" on my 5834 Presario. For some reason, the DVD and CD Rom drives do not show up in device manager. They open and close and when media is placed in them the drives spin, it's just that windows does not seem to be recognizing them. I checked the connections and...

I am trying to provide some long distance help for an my aunt with a Presario S5000V. She told me that her video has recently started to show upside down. I walked her through a few t/s procedures, but before I have her try to reload drivers (or drive the 200+ miles to do it for her) I wanted to...

bonjour, je souhaite installer une carte ethernet 10/100 sur mon Compaq 7474 acheté en 2000, pour pouvoir me brancher sur ADSL. quel marque et type de carte me recommendez vous ? merci pour votre réponse michel

I'm very disappointed at the service I'm getting from COMPAQ!! But anyways, here's my problem~ -pushed the power button, everything starts up fine. -as usual, i can log in but that's it. -the mouse moves but nothing else shows up on screen except the desktop background image -the only problem i...

The CD-Rom on my sons compaq w/XP home stopped working. He recently decided to get DSL only to discover that the CD does not work so he can't use the disk from Qwest. We tried several things last night but I discovered so many problems that we did a system restore. Do we need to let everything...