The hd that came with my prsarios is toast. I popped in my home hd with windows xp pro on it. Everything works fine except the disk drives don't work. Have been looking for drivers etc. with no luck. How do you get those drives to work? Thanks John

I am shortly going to need to replace a Dell laptop and am thinking of the Compq nc8230. It is one of the business line laptops. I have grown disappointed with Dell service, but haven't used a Compaq for about five years and wondered if their has also declined badly. Any comments on the nc8230...

I have three (3) sets of Compaq Restore CD's . 1st CD: Compaq Deskpro EN and EP series with Intel 810/810a Chipsets. Intel Celeron 500, Pentium III 733 MHz processors and eariler versions. Version 4.4. Requires Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 CD. Part # 138602-005 2nd CD: Compaq CD For Microsoft...

I want to upgrade the video card in my Presario 5BW120, however, I have baffled by the cards available. From the specs on my machine, it states that it doesn't have any AGP slots, however, all the cards I am looking at have the following: Compatible Slots 1 x AGP Am I able to get video cards...

I am thinking of changing my busted 30gb harddrive for Presario 2715US ( 2700 series) with a 60gb harddrive. The only problem is that the original harddrive was 9.5mm but the new 60gb harddrive is 12.5 mm. Now I am not sure if Presario 2700 series support hard drives which are 12.5 mm thick? Has...

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Hello again! I still have problems with the Compaq EVO D310 and ASUS V9180 Magic/Geforce 4. You have suggested me to look for a jumper which I did from the start. It looks like our compaq's is some kind of modified version? We don't have any jumpers on the board that can help us. We have flashed...

I need a CD image of the system recovery CD for this desktop machine. Thank you in advance. :) -- "To conquer the world, we must be as meticulus and calculating as a colony of ants on the march." --Julius Caesar /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Ant @ The Ant Farm: http://antfarm.ma.cx | |o ...

Sounds like you installed the OS in one machine and then moved the drive to another machine. No wonder it won't boot the OS. Try installing the OS on the machine you want to use it on.

I've just bought a new touchpad to install onto my Armada M700, but I can't get the thing to work. I downloaded the driver from the Compaq site but for some reason it isn't picking uo the touchpad when I boot the laptop. Can anyone please help with any suggestions. Thanks Martin

hello, i need the PASSWORD for the FACTORY.PQI etc drive image files that are on the recovery cd for my laptop. i want to have a good look inside the image with drive image 2002 and maybe be able to restore individual files etc via image explorer in drive image program. many thanks oostrich

I was looking at the www.compaq.com website for a SoundMax driver for a COMPAQ Deskpro sb series, P733, i815. The only sound driver that appears for that model is a Windows 2000 DOS driver and I need a W98 driver. The W2000 driver doesn't work, and I've tried a number of soundmax drivers for...

I'm having problems booting a Armada 1750. I downloaded the diagnostic disks from the HP/Compaq website and it reports problems writing to the HD. I tried fdisking drive (removing both the C: drive's partition and that tiny non-dos partition at the beginning) and just reformating it but...

Hello. Is there anything unusual about replacing the hard drive on this laptop? Is part of the bios on the hard drive? I don't have the restore cds so if there are any files necessary that aren't on the window install disks I'd like to know. Thanks. Chuck

Hi, i have an old Compaq Professional WS 5100 dual PII-300 with no bios and without f10 partition. The problems it's related to the setup's diskettes: "F10 Setup and Diagnostics for Compaq Workstations / version 1.15 A (8 Oct 98)". When i try to run setup.exe, after booting from the diskettes,...

Hi All: I received a Compaq Presario desktop as a gift and would appreciate some suggestions. The computer has the following: 3000+ AMD Sempron Processor 512 MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM memory 120 GB 7200RPM Ultra DMA Hard drive

I am trying to help my daugther's nanny by upgrading her Presario to something better. I need to find out more details about the motherboard configuration but cannot find it anywhere, and compaq's website does not list that info. Basically, I need to know the fastest processor the mobo will...

Finally I managed to get my iPAQ synchronize with ActiveSync on my desktop via Bluetooth. Read about how I did it at http://www.logodesignworks.com/iPAQ-activesync-bluetooth-synchronization.htm Best of luck! Jeff

thank you for your input on the parts my daughter was very excited that we could do this on Her pc . i spent the 30 bucks to get a 166 intel chip and 4 32meg sticks of memory from http://www.isellsurplus.com/ . i need to get thermal compound before i can add the 166 , but the memory is causing a...

We had a lightning strike nearby the other day, and I lost the sound on my Compaq 6320US. My old Compaq laptop had a system diagnostic program to test the system hardware, but I can't find one on this computer, or on the support website. I'm running XP Pro. Any ideas?