Group, I just purchased a 5610 at a tag sale for 40 bucks.Wiped the drive and installed winxp.Everything works just fine except for the on board firewire.It is an Adaptec AIC 5800 chip.I've searched for hours and found nothing that works. Is it even possible to get this working?I 've found many...

I have a Compaq EXD C600 PC. I was wondering whether I can put in a significantly faster processor. Present one is Celeron 600. Mother board says Garcia MB on it. Any help most gratefully received thanks.

I recently had to replace the hard drive in my Compaq Presario 7478. I have the new hard drive working but have what I think is a strange problem. I have connected the new drive to the connector marked "Drive 0" from the motherboard, but when I attach the "Drive 1" connector to my old hard drive,...

Every time I disconnect my Compaq Presario 8000T from AC power, two problems happen. One, as soon as I reconnect it to the outlet, the computer turns on without waiting for me to press the power button. Second, I get a message that says "Default BIOS settings have been loaded due to BIOS update or...

I have a Presario 2110ca notebook and need to update the bios. When I try to update them I get an error message: "This BIOS is not for your notebook pc." I have tried bios updates for most 2100-2110 notebooks but all say the same error message. My notebook says Presario 2100 on it but has a...

A week or so ago my Presario Model 7478's hard drive began to fail. I had gotten a message that the disc detected that failure was imminent, and I bought a new hard drive. The new drive is a Seagate 80gb drive, whereas the factory installed drive was a 30gb Maxtor. I had checked on this group and...

Anyone familiar with this laptop, I'm considering the purchase. Price/value seems to be pretty good. Any comments on the units speed (I have a 3 yr. old 1.2 Ghz desktop now) and battery life? General impressions? -- Thanks in advance... Bob

hello, can anyone tell me what type of ram compaq presario 4506 uses. it has one slot with 32mb ram in it. can I put more memory in it.

Hello, My DVD player, a Samsung SD-616T, plays through until the last 2 to 4 minutes and then the picture freezes while the player continues to turn and the green seek light continues to blink. I am using Windows Media Player 9, Windows XP, 2.8 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM. The disk is clean and this...

I try to disable safety parameters on my 4/66 , with diag floppy. Nevertheless , after few minutes , screen is black , keyboard frozen and HD down. Server inside works. I'm obliged to reboot to get the keyboard again. Emmanuel.

Hi, I have a friends fairly old compaq amada 300 to look at (I think the name is correct), A message saying '1872 hard drive controller is not working' is appearing Question ; Is this motherboard related, ie, needing to be replaced. or is there another explanation. This will save me taking...

Hello I have a Compaq Presario 4410CA, with a 40GB hard drive running windows XP home. I have thinking of adding another hard drive to the machine. I am thinking of another 40GB or 80 GB. I have been searching the web for models and pricing etc. At the moment I am leaning towards a Western Digital...

I need help to multi boot the system. I have the HP Compaq1 Presario SR1030NX, it came with the system installed on the hard drive. I am trying to make this into a multi boot system and having no luck. Using Norton Ghost to make an image of the C:\ partition. Using Partition magic to make...

I had two drives (1 Maxtor and 1 Samsung) connected to a Promise Ultra133 Tx2 card but when Windows XP would start it would crash after a few seconds of loading applications. It seemed to crash quicker if I tried starting other applications while it was loading. I moved the drives to my...

That may be the answer. I am not sure what the native speed of my Samsung drive is but the controller has it running in mode 6. It's native mode might be mode 5.

I'm working on an older Compaq Presario. I think the model is CM0204, since this is the only number found on the machine (on the back). Anyway, the original HDD went bad, and I had to do a clean boot of Win98SE. However, as you probably can guess, I can't find the drivers to reinstall the onboard...

Anyone know what this error code means J01683298? Its on a Compaq Armada 1750 laptop. Thanks, Dave

Author:name ) Subject: locating driver for integrated audio on deskpro Newsgroup:alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq Date:2003-05-03 17:07:06 PST Finally managed to solve the problem. The system did recognize the integrated audio as "AC'97 Intel 82801 AA" or something...

Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1 For Compaq...

Now that HP has taken over Compaq, their "help desk" is laughable. Pat