harding77 Wrote: i recently bought a compaq presario 1210 laptop from a friend(kinda old) everything seems to be ok....it only powers up on the power plug...battery seems dead or i need drivers.......i don't know what to do to fix my battery....i seen that this laptop once came with a ...

Over the last weekend my wife bought at a garage sale a Compaq Prosignia 500 and a NEC monitor and alot more goodies all for $10.00, WOW but now after turning the big beast on what I have on the monitor is "Configuration Nonvolatile Memory Invalid Initialization Aborted" and what follows on the...

I have some Compaq Windows 95 OEM CDs that say only for use with System Restore CD. Looking at the 95 CD, it contains the same files in some directories, but in other cases a .cex is appended to the filename. For whom would these be of any value? For example, would someone with the same Compaq...

Compaq is EVIL, it's the work of the devil, made to collect your souls and to turn you into brainless slaves of hell. If you like Compaq, you will lose your soul to be damned for eternal torment in hell.Demons and devils will feast on your soul for all eternity. So stop supporting this evil now...

Laptop won't boot. When i plug in the power connector only the battery light is flashing 8 times. A few seconds nothing, then again 8 times flashing. No other activity, the cpu cooler fan seems to be death also. Anyone familair with this problem?

I have a compaq deskpro ep/sb series which is a pentium 2 350 and I was wondering how to find out the model number and also I can't get a operating system to load properly, can anyone help thanks

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...

Well, my mom comes home and dumps a Preasrio laptop on my desk and told me to fix it. The whole thing is hosed so I reformatted. There's no modem, and no NIC, and Compaq doesn't have the display drivers on its website. Where am I supposed to get them?

Hi, A workstation need to have the biggest storage capacity available to it. The workstation is a Compaq Deskpro EN P733. The reason for the need is to store huge logfiles. I wonder if the latest hard drives will work with it, say ,those 300 GB ones ? I've tried looking for this information on...

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I upgraded a Compaq Presario 1693 to Windows 98. Now the pcmcia slot doesn't recognize the network card. Anyone know how I can fix this? I've been unable to find any info on Compaq's site. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1...

What is the maximum hard drive size recognized by an old Compaq 5147? I don't suppose the mobo supports ATA drives, does it? There is currently an 8 Gig drive in the owner's machine and I have not actually seen the machine. TIA

Hi, I got a Compaq presario 2210 to install reinstall windows 98. I want to boot from the windows cd, but how do I come into the bios? Only the logo from Compaq appear on the screen and then start window. F2, F8 and Del doesn't start open the bios. Hope someone can help me.

Hi, I have three questions about a presario 2210, hope somebody can give some help. 1. At the moment my display runs on " high colour, 16 bits ". Is this the highest quality possible for the videocard on the motherboard? (or do i have to look for a better driver?)

Hi, I got a compaq presario 5240 and i want to make a clean installation of Xp on it. Anybody who can tell me how the enter the Bios, so i can set the dvd player as first boot device, and format the whole hd ? Thanks in advance!

Hi, Was going something wrong in here, so I have to send again. I have still two questions about a presario 2210, hope somebody can give some help. 1. At the moment my display runs on " high colour, 16 bits ". Is this the highest quality possible for the videocard on the

Hi! I have troubles with my Compaq Armada 110s Notebook. 2 months ago it started refusing CDROMS. Some CDs can be read some not. But there is no visible pattern for me. The drive refuses most CDs from all writable formats (CD-R. CD-RW), sizes (74 oder 80 minutes) and sIngle or multisession...

Hello, i installed on my Contura Aero (12MB Ram) WIN95. Now under Equipment manager/Other components i found Question mark infront of "PCMCIA-Cardservices". Where can i found a driver for this servies? greetings from germany heiko

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Hi everybody, just bought an old Proliant 850R and installed Linux on it. Everything is fine, no problems. However, I did not find a way to enter the BIOS to see/change items. I can rember from my Compaq Notebook experiences that usually F10 is the magic key, but nothing happens. There is also no...