Hello I've got an old Deskpro 166 Mhz computer with on the label the following: serie 3564 (modelnumber??). My problad is the harddisk is not bootable anymore. I have an other harddisk but on the original disk is some system information witch I can't mannage to copy it to the disk I would like to...

School I work for has some Deskpro 2000s donated. In one that had W95, I reformatted the the hard drive and put W98 on it. Couplee of things. 1) I get this line across the screen. Shall I assume that the video card may be on its way out? 2) After installing the Ethernet Controller I can get...

I just rescued a DeskPro 2000 from a skip and it appears to be working fine except for a problem which occurred when I tried to add some cards to the machine. Basically as long as only the three slots (2 x ISA and one ISA/PCI) on the outside of the riser are used all is well. If either of the PCI...

Hi, My daughter was given the old compaq pc for free, so I decided to upgrade the hard drive for her. I replaced the original 1.2GB, with a 40GB maxtor and then my troubles began! Everytime I try to install win me, the computer hangs at the point after the initial scandisk (black screen - copying...

Hi! I've got a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (166MMX, 64MB-RAM) and I've added a Seagate 8.4 HDD.. Unfortunately, on boot i get an error: 1790 Disk-0-Error F1: Boot. I press F1 and everything's fine, my Slackware boots without any problems.

I´ve got an old deskpro2000 now running with 2 ISA network cards under Win98SE. Next problems and questions: I have one old 3.2 GB HDD holding the Win98SE system installed permanently on the on-board IDE interface. I have installed an ATA-100 Promise PCI board for bigger harddisks. For these I have...

The above machine is doing stirling service as a Linux backup system with samba. Memory is 128MB. It has two disks - the original 3.2GB and a 40GB plus a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. The system is flashed with the latest bios. What are the limits on this machine both in memory nad disks? I tried the 40GB...

Someone donated a Compaq Deskpro 4000 to our church. I am the unofficial tech volunteer trying to get it working. The video appears to be out. We tried it with a known working monitor and all we get is a blank screen. No video even though system appears to power on and hard drive lights up. My...

Hello! I have a Deskpro 4000 (rather old, Pentium 166MMX, 128 MB) which I use as a file server and firewall. It works quite find, the only thing disturbing me were the fans. I replaced the CPU-fan successfully with a passive cooler and I use a very, very silent Seagate harddrive. The only noise...

Hi All, I've got a trusty old DeskPro which I'd like to put a new HD and CDWR in since they're pretty cheap... Can anyone tell me if it matters what drives I get? Are there limitations which mean a new drive won't work? E.g. can I put an EIDE HD in there? Thanks a lot,

Hi There, I wonder if anyone can help me... I've got an old Deskpro and sometimes when I'm using it, the keyboard (and sometimes the mouse) freezes, the num-lock/caps-lock go out and there a loud, repetitive beeping from somewhere inside the machine. Usually, after a minute of so the beeping...

I have a Compaq Deskpro 2000 5166 with a system ROM 586C dated 08/16/1996. It only supports disks up to 2Gb. Am I correct in assuming that if I Flash this thing with the SP15800 ROMPaq from HP/Compaq, I can stick in a bigger disk? SSS, -- SSS, Steve / Strathclyde /...

Here I am again. Still trying to install a soundcard into my deskpro 2000 5166mmx with no luck. I have visited the compaq site and downloaded a number of files, and used the files to reboot my PC but it still will not see any PNP hardware. I am slowly considering throwing the thing out of the...

I'm trying to configure a DeskPro 6000 (Pentium Pro 200) but can't seem to get it to create the Diagnostic Partition. I boot with the Setup disks (1 & 2) and it sees the hard drive fine. I do a Save and Exit and then boot with the Diagnostic disk to Create a Diagnostic Partition and all i get is...

How can you access the BIOS on an old Compaq Deskpro? Already tried the usual stuff... DEL after POST, F4, F5, F8, F10... Nothing. Any suggestions Thanks, Gilbert

Hello, I bought Deskpro 200 5166 MMX for a router. Unfortunately it can't boot without keyboard, only show error message and wait for F1. Is there any solution for this problem ? -- Jacek_FH

I have a Compaq EXD C600 PC. I was wondering whether I can put in a significantly faster processor. Present one is Celeron 600. Mother board says Garcia MB on it. Any help most gratefully received thanks.

I have Compaq deskpro tower computer. It has a p3 550 cpu. I think the model number is Deskpro EP BX/P550. I was just wondering what the highest cpu I could put in. Thanks Jay

Just been given a DeskPro, the label says DPENS P450+/6.4/W5 UK. It is not fitted with a CD and appears to need a low profile model. Additionally the connector on the logic board marked CD appears to be non standard. Does this all mean that only a Compaq drive can be fitted to it. I've got it up...

i am installing a 256 mb 133hz sdram, and i get a error 164-memory size error. when i put the 64mb 100hz sdram in it is ok. i have tried 2 different sdrams and they both will not work..is the speed the problem or the size and also do i need to update the bios. thanks for any help...