compaq deskpro 2000 M5133/1080 GER I want to install a new HDD, becouse the old one is broken. I think I had to install a new Partition on the knew HDD using the two created Disk's "F10 Setup and Personal Computer Diagnostics" SP4704, but the Comp didn't boot from the created disk. Another...

I've been looking at the computers on the Compaq and Dell web sites more and more. Also been looking at the computers being sold on amazon.com. I've been looking at new computers for the last six months. Once I upgrade to DSL I would like to take my main computer (my Compaq Presario) and...

I have 2 Compaq Desktops #1 Compaq Presario S3010CL-B (Sam's Club 7/3/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ #2 Compaq Presario S5000J (Compaq Direct 9/13/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Both use S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR video. While nosing around...

I wanted to install a 5 1/4" floppy drive in my Presario 5000T so I could exchange files with my Compaq Deskpro 286, but the machine says nada. I installed a dual channel cable, hooked up both floppy drives, and the went into the BIOS and enabled the B: drive as a 5 1/4" 1.2 meg drive. But, the...

Hi, I have a 6GB Seagate hard drive with an HP label on it. I tried adding it to my ancient Compaq 4506 with an existing 3.2 GB hard drive but, alas,I encountered a problem. I can't get the hp hard drive to be recognized!!! And I don't mean that it just does not show up along with the original...

My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050. The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support 1680x1050. I would like to know if anyone is aware of a...

I have bought but not yet received a Compaq Armada 7792 Laptop PC (Windows 98) with HD and floppy drive but no CD drive fitted. I would like to Wifi this machine with my desktop PC (Windows XP Pro). I wish to share Internet access/email (PCI ADSL on board Desktop PC) with the Laptop unit and...

Staples has some 200GB hard drives on sale, but will it work in my Compaq S4020WM purchased at Walmart a little over a year ago? -E

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, I have a compaq presario 1688 with a screen that has lines on the upper part of the screen. I also have 1200 with a good screen that I can use for parts to replace the screen and was just wondering if the 1200 parts comatible with the 1688. Just wondering if anybody replaced a 1688 screen with...

I have an old Deskpro 4000 (5133) and I'm wondering if a PCI USB adapter will work in this machine. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Upgraded a Presario 4814 from Windows 95 to Windows 98. Everything works OK except there is no sound. Sound worked fine under Win 95. Any help would be appreciated. Location of drivers would also be appreciated. Hoby in Idaho please reply to the newsgroup

Am using a Compaq Presario 7PL290 (mini tower) with Win ME no problem but am going (have not yet) to do the Windows XP Pro upgrade, the upgrade advisor says my plane ole 10/100 base T NIC might need additional files (see below) but I didn't see XP driver(s) on compaq.com only ME/98 drivers, my xdsl...

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...

After encountering many BSOD (and trying all possible remedies - new HD checking RAM etc etc. I re installed Win XP Pro SP2. During install I had to use the F7 bypass - I don't recall having to do that before. However The unit seems a bit more reliable but one BIG problem... The OS doesn't...

Just bought a Presario S6000Z. It came with Win XP home and I upgraded to Win XP Pro (upgraded myself, not a Compaq upgrade). After the installation everything was working fine, but when I attempted to install XP's SP1A using Windows update, USB devices no longer worked (meaning, they didn't even...

I am trying to install WIn2K on 3000 with Dual PII processors. Am using System configuration utility ver 2.58 and wish to setup 6 - 9.1 Gb disk in RAID 5. The disks are connected to the embedded Compaq Wide-Ultra SCSI controller. THe problem that I am having is Windows setup is hanging when it...

can anyone tell me where I might be able to get some drivers for a Presario S4030NX. for the on board devices video, audio, also modem? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

How can I make games run full-screen? I'm using a Armada M700 laptop. In some games you can adjust the resolution higher to use full-screen, but then the game runs slower. - not good.. ex: Soldier of fortune 2, runs fine with 640x480 but does not use the whole screen.. --

Hello I am trying to install Windows 2000 on Proliant 7000 with 4 Processors installed But Itrs not recognize the Processors. Its shows on front LCD Proc 1 to Proc 4 Intsalled How to enable SMP support on Proliant 7000 Thanks