I have a Presario 5600s I had Win 98 installed and the USB ports worked fine under that OS. I wiped and installed XP home and now the USB ports will not work. Any idea how to fix this or work around it? The weird thing is that the Root hub shows in Device manager but nothing else. I have...

I need to find the motherboard for a Presario 7478. I think its called a camaro motherboard. Any help will be appreciated.

Can someone tell me what the "Fn" key does on a Compaq keyboard and how to use it? I just bought a Compaq CPQ125KB keyboard and noticed a key marked "Fn" located below the ENTER key. In the brief manual that came with the keyboard there is no mention of this key. Would appreciate any information. ...

this has been a nightmare, I bought this computer at Best Buy, but needed to put XP Pro on it for the simple fact that the box was going to be joining a windows domain, and now I can't find USB drivers for it and I've looked everywhere. So do any of you have any suggestions for me? Thanks in...

***NEW INFO Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp

Here's the link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=1&u=/pcworld/20040628/tc_pcworld/116572 HH

Can anyone please provide instuctions on how to remove the CD drive from a Compaq Presario 1201T? Thank you for your assistance.

PRESARIO MODEL 12XL125 As soon as you turn on the laptop computer does the fan start running or does it have to reach a certain temperature inside before it turns on? Bob

I have a Presario 1200-xl111 notebook and need to know the correct way to remove my dying hard drive and replace it with a new hard drive. How do I remove the hard drive? Need instructions. CHEERS!!

Hello. I have a compaq deskpro (EXD/C600/10c/9/64 NL) running windows 2000 which has an integrated soundcard (SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio). Sometimes while playing mp3s, winamp just stops while playing and it seems stuck at a particular moment in time. Then I can't play mp3s anymore until I...

I have the above computer as a P350. Had to format the 4 gig drive, put W98 se in all went well except that now it will only boot as a new install ex= then after CD Rom drivers are loaded I get abort retry fail. When I hit .. it will then start w98. any ideas ?? I dont have a restore disk. and...

Trying to replace 20 gig with 60gig but drive is not recognized. Tried differ jumper setting but no go. Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks Vince

HP Updates Pavilion, Presario lines: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=4&u=/pcworld/20040630/tc_pcworld/116755 HH

Also , does anyone know of a hack or jumper or dipswitch setting to force bus speeds to 100mhz or 133? I know of the B21 hack but dont want to do that to the Celeron i have unless needed to.

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hi i just bought a compaq armada 4150 off ebay. i was wondering how i would go about installing windows xp on it. :? i currently have a 6gb hard drive (crappy, i know). would upgrading to 20gb get the job done? thanks. ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to...

Hi, I got this small,old but fine maschine. In the default configuratoin it works fine, but when I insert a PCI-card in the extension-slot I get a system crash. Now I would like to try a BIOS-Update, but I could not find my system on the compaq/hp website So how could I get the right ROMPaq ? I...

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Does anyone know how to get into CMOS on a Compaq Armada 7800 laptop computer? Tried the usual F1, Del, etc.. but none get me in. The Compaq support pages are terrible.. HP mess. Thx -BC

Hi all, I have an Armada M300 600Mhz P3, 192 ram, 12Gb HDD, DVD+Floppy (DVD and Floppy drives in Mobile Expansion Unit.), 4Mb Ati Rage LT Pro. I may soon have the opportunity to upgrade to an Omnibook 6000 800Mhz P3, 256 ram, 20Gb HDD, DVD (Internal), 16Mb Ati Rage Mobility Pro (I think that is...