I have a presario 2200 laptop, 2months old, it will after being off a night reset the time to 12 am jan 1 2004. does this unit have a cmos battery or is the time onboard a chip. it certainly is too soon for a battery to fail. any other reasons for such a failure, the battery is kept...

Is this faster than a Pentium 2 equivalent at 3.2GHZ? - http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8adrh/news.html (profile) --Tim923 My email is valid.

I have a Compaq laptop and about every 10 minutes or so the NUM LOCK button turns itself on and I have to manually shut it off. Also, I have an external keyboard hooked-up to the laptop and the NUM LOCK key on it does the same thing. I it does it periodically even if no keys were touched. I am...

Anyone really good with Windows XP professional? I am not, having only been using it for a few weeks. However my laptop(compaq) normally opens to the desktop. The other day, being stupid ( I am being that alot lately) I was fiddling with something in Windows and the next time I turned on the laptop...

Hello again, I choosed the model above and i am suposed to buy it. The specs are the ones I need for my purpose. Is this a good machine and recomendable? Any experiences in the daily work life with it? Thanks! European

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

Can the video module on the Presario desktop 5240 be upgraded? XP Home, AMD K6 3D processor 395 Mhz, 384 MB RAM, 80 GB HD Thanks in advance, tele64

Hello ! I'm trying to find an old Compaq Deskpro system. I think the model is Deskpro 5/60M Deskpro 5/66M XE 560 or similar Compaq with a Pentium 60 or 66 MHz CPU inside.

Somehow, I mis-placed my power adaptor for my notebook. When trying to replace it, I only find the HWP/CPQ model at $70.00 (plus shipping) direct from HWP. If I knew the output voltage and amperage..I'm hoping I could buy one I see on the net for $25.00 or less. Can anyone help with the power...

Anyone know if the above is an NLX card that will fit into a Deskpro EN / anyone have one or something better NLX form factor that they could send me for max £ 4 to a UK postcode. -- And to all those opposed... Hmm...well *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com ***

Anyone know what two flashing lights at the front means on installing a blank HDD on an Armada M700? (Nothing else, not on pressing the power button or on pressing sideways the other button) There is nothing on the drive and I wanted to install an OS. It wont even think about looking at the...

Hi, When I reformatted the E drive didn't work. It was working great until I reformatted. It says the E drive isn't ready even when a cd that is unused or even if there is a used cd in it. It worked perfectly before I reformatted and I checked for conflicts and stuff like that. I even went to...

I just reinstalled my Compaq XP Home op system on a new hard drive on my Compaq Presario, a fairly recent model purchased last year. Then I installed all of the updates which have been published at the HP website, then SP2, and finally the latest windows updates. All seems OK, but somehow in...

Hallo Ik probeer voor een kennis een compaq presario 1635 te her-installeren. Maar ik kom niet verder dan een beschermingsfout van windows (98) Wie heeft ervaring met installeren van zo'n apparaat zonder recoverydisks? en kan me op weg helpen??? I try to re-install a een compaq presario 1635...

I upgraded a Presario 1275 to W2K to get a wireless card to work. Windows found the correct display driver, and I manually installed drivers for the Easy Access keyboard and Synaptic touchpad. Per Compaq, I set the monitor to a standard 800x600 display. So far, so good. All of the Fn keys work...

I need more HD space and wanted to know whether I could delete the System_sav partition on my compaq and have no problems LATER considering that: 1) I am running Win XP and have my disc for reinstalltion 2) I hate ME and dont ever want to use it again Now If I run into trouble down the line, and...

Hey kids: When I got my laptop, I immediately upgraded to XP Pro. I cannot get the Broadcom wireless NIC to enable the radio. Compaq won't help me because they only support XP Home, and apparently the GUI is quite different for networking. Has anybody "out there" enabled their...

Hi all, I got a pretty much stock 7940 and i want to up grade the memory on it. It has 128 megs now i want to bring it up to 256 total but i am having a hard time finding pc100 speed and i was wondering if pc133 will work, i may just get one stick of pc133 256 meg and remove the pc100 128 meg...

Hi gang, A guy at work has a Compaq Presario (possibly a 2247) and he's looking to upgrade the memory. Will a standard single side 128mb SDRAM do the job or does this use special memory? Ta in advance, SODA

I'm getting ready to upgrade the memory in a Presario 5660 from 128 to 384. The system hasn't been formatted since it was purchased in December 1998. The system has Win98 on it now, but I will be upgrading it to XP. I will upgrade the BIOS, then format everything. I've formatted quite a few...