Hello again, I have some problems when shutting my computer down using windows2000. The problem is, when I want to shut it down, it ends up with the screen saying "It is now safe to turn your computer off". It does NOT turn itself off completely like Windows98 did which I had before. Now, I...

I have a Compaq Presario S6000V with a FP15 Flat Panel Display LCD screen. Recently, on startup in the morning, my monitor blinks. It would be black and then blink so I could see the desktop and then go black again. It was a 5 second cycle. Black for 5 seconds - Flash the desktop and then Black...

I have in my Compaq Presario 5000 the program Microsoft Works. I deleted things and the program don't work anymore and other programs I have needs this one to work Microsoft Picture it). Can't even unistall it. I have to restore my computer with the recovery cd to be able to reinstall...

It runs with windows 98. I installed a new sound card and works fine but how do I uninstall the other one? I tried going to Device Manager and remove it from there but everytime I reboot my computer it will install itself again. Thanks Maureen

Hi, A problem from the beginning with this type of computer. The store has no solution, so maybe an expert here has an idea where to search for the problem? Windows XP SP1 the computer restarts instead of shut down. Yesterday I installed SP2, but that didn't help. systemnr: DF166A an AMD Athlon,...

Looking for a sound driver for a compaq presario 7200/7600 series pc...anyone know of where I can find one..I don't seem to be able to locate...

Hi, I recently got a Presario 2700. I installed XP pro, and everything is fine, except that the buttons at the top don't work. (For instance the volume control buttons don't do anything and even the power button can't be reprogrammed, it just shuts right off.) I've looked all over but can't...

A friend has Compaq ME system with a IJ600 printer. The odd thing is that he can print somethings, others time he tries to print the system goes through it Compaq oddities, and nothing happens with the printer. Where should I look???? Thanks, --max

I am currently fixing a compaq for my sister and run into a problem. The drive was formatted with 2 partitions, one for OS and one for system recovery. I have put windows 2000 on the recovery partiton and it boots up fine. Now when I try and read the other partition, only some files/folders show...

Does anyone have any horror stories about Maxtor Hard Drives (20 or 40 GB)? I would love to hear them and be consoled. B-

Having had crashes in the past, I was happy to see a site go up taking a survey of Maxtor Hard drive failures. They will contact you with the final results if you provide contact info. It might be interesting to see how many had issues with warranty replacements. The website is at...

I have a Compaq Presario R3000 laptop (R3065CA). I am soon to be travelling to Japan and will need to have channels 12, 13 and 14 enable on my wireless. It has the Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance. Any suggestion on how I can accomplish such a thing? Maxx

My English it`s not good. I`m finding information for subject: Compaq Presario 5520. Help me!!!

Hello there, I bought a used Evo N800V laptop recently and found a very annoying defect... The screen has got a vertical band where the image is not shown correctly, but "distorted". It doesn't seem to be a problem of dead pixels (and the LCD panel itself doesn't seem to have been hit). The...

Hello there, I bought a used Evo N800V laptop recently and found a very annoying defect... The screen has got a vertical band where the image is not shown correctly, but "distorted". It doesn't seem to be a problem of dead pixels (and the LCD panel itself doesn't seem to have been hit). The...

I'm trying to find out what the maximum ram my 6195EA can use is. The motherboard is a model 07d0h. There's 2 memory slots, each of one bank, on the board. It came with 512MB (2 x 256MB modules). I tried taking out one 256MB and replacing it with a 512MB one, hoping to get 768MB, but the...

I asked about upgrading my laptop from ME awhile back. When I bought the laptop it had ME installed on it. It also has the hotswapping floppy drive/CD-DVD drive. ME stinks and I wanted to go to XP. Following some good advice, I bought a new harddrive and XP Pro. I replaced the hard drive, booted...

Hello Does anyone know where I can find a manual for the compaq LTE Lite 4/25C. I need to replace the internal battery and do not know how to disassemble. thanks mc

I have a compaq 4/25c with a 2818 speedpaq 14.4 modem which works fine. This modem has 2 plug ins. What is the 2nd plug in for (not a standard phone plug)? I see on the web they call this modem an expansion module, whatever that means. I have no manuaks for this computer but if anyone has one I...

I was installing windows xp on my laptop. The CD gave error and the setup was interuprted and finshed. However the hard disk was formatted. Now i am trying to do new installation with another cd. As soon as the setup starts it gives error that 'Windows didnot found any removable hard disks' and...