This topic was broached in 2005 and, as the poster feared, it "died on the vine." Never one to take a hint, I want to revive it. Laptop power jacks are *-_DESIGNED_-* to fail! Every one I've ever seen has a 4-5cm long stiff crowbar of a power plug that jams into a flimsy jack that's...

Hallo can someone tell me which version of windows is best to run on this dinosaur although is has more to do with an airplane when starting up ... (hehe) note to the professionals amoung us : what is best for simple internetsurfing and some music - word stuff ? Windows NT 3.51 ? , windows nt 4.0...

I was very fortunate to trade my very nice, new, expensive laptop for a Compaq Presario 1200 US* which has a very slow Celeron chip and very little memory, 128mb is soldered in and 256mb was added making a total of 320mb. Believe it or not, the thing is capable of doing what I need done, I use...

http://www.newgen.ca/content/product.taf?ContentID=134 Often the fan gets loud and annoying. Most of the time it is OK, but it is very annoying when it happens. I don't see any way to remove dust from the fan. The fan part appears covered completely in black plastic. Has anyone had luck cleaning...

Hi Guys, Does anyone know where I can get hold of a User manual for a Compaq Presario 1234 online? I have searched the Compaq site and I can find manuals for extra bits like Blurtooth but not the manual for the actual laptop. Any clues? Cheers, Steve

Hi every 1 im the kind of person that likes to screw with peoples minds a bit. so i was wondering if there was something i could install, or if i coud edit the boot.ini file so i could boot from 2000 or 3.1 if so where can i get it and what els do i need? im guessing i need dos. -- devin1100

I had 256MB of DDR PC3200 installed and wanted more. I thought I found a good deal on ebay 2 sticks of 1GB DDR PC3200 made my NCP. Ad stated that it was new. I install either or both of the sticks in either or both of the slots and get a beep and the computer won't start. Online chat with...

my daughter has a compaq presario s4020wm system.it boots up to a black screen,the green light comes on,the dvd rom tries to boot,the floppy also tries to boot,we know the monitor works because we tried it on another system, how can we tell if the onboard video adapter is bad?and what else can i do...

I recently bought some eBay RAM from someone with a good rep there, 100%. I've had the chip in for about 10 days and I thought everything was fine. It seems to show up, i.e from when I first put it in and the BIOS amended itself. And it shows up as having gone from 256 mb to 512 when I look at...

"bobG" wrote in message ... I deleted my BIOS in my Compaq Deskpro 4000n 5233MMX. Oops. I know I can live without it, but I'd like to restore the BIOS partition if possible. I've done some searching in groups, and...

I am trying to create a partition using "Phdisk.exe" on a clients Presario 1650. The partition is crated at the end of the hard disk (as seen by Partition Magic 2003). However, when I go into the BIOS, I'm told that the partition doesn't exist. Note: I do not have a restore disk, nor does the...

I have a DeskPro EX 866 Desktop. I am going to upgrade the mobo and many of the components. Will a non-compaq mobo fit in the case or will that too have to go in the skip? Dan

Greetings. I have a Compaq Presario with a built-in 24x burner, and bundled Roxio CD creater (version 5?) The problem is that the process of burning CDs are quite slow. I use properly rated blank CDs, and always burn them from a hard disk image. When I burn a CD though, I can see that the drive...

I'm trying to work on this laptop for a friend. I tried to load win2k, and I got an error about non-compliant BIOS for APCI. It suggested updating the BIOS. I checked the website, downloaded and ran the flash update - same error. Will this thing just not run win2000? But...in windows 98,...

Greetings, I have added 2 new sticks of ram ea 128mb to my Presario 100P. Now it has 320Mb but it will not see more than 192 Mb. I can put each stick into the DIMM1 slot and it will see it ok singularly but when I fill all 3 slots I get 192Mb. All help greatly appreciated. TIA

I just bought an 802.11b multiport wireless lan for my Presario 1525US notebook, it was delivered today. In the instructional manual it says there are TWO different types of 'Network Modes': 1.) Peer 2 Peer or 2.) Base Station I don't understand which one I'm suppose to choose when running...

Just got a Powerleap adapter (PL-iP3/T) + Celeron 1400 (Tualatin) package in the mail today, and found out it that it does indeed work in my Deskpro EN SFF. I wasn't sure it would, since Powerleap's compatibility database did not have a listing for this adapter on the SFF Deskpro. Quite an...

I have not been able to get any decent support from those people ever since they moved their support centers to India. I am so tired of calling those people only to get the same automated responses I would get by asking a stupid paperclip. Those people really have no clue and are very difficult to...

I've bought a prosignia 300 from a friend. The prosignia has 16 Mb intern memory. I will use it for a linux router. First I install DOS on it. When I type the dos command MEM I see: Conventional: 638k Upper: 0 Reservation: 0 Extended (XMS): 15,360k Where's my Upper memory? Must I change something...

Hello- I have an REALLY old notebook here that I want to use for instant messaging- and get those things of the machine I use here. It's annoying to have everyone bug you at once when your trying to work. The problem is that the note book doesn't pick up anything from the Docking station except...