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Presario 1700 (17XL365) upgrade ignorance... by
Mike
I have a Presario 1700 (17XL365) that came with ME. 2 partitions, C and D,
(D must be the restore)
ME stinks and I want to put XP Pro (or W2K) on this machine.
Right now the machine barely runs and I don't want to go spend $2000 on a
new one if I don't have to.
I have saved all my drivers using the...
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February 20th 05 02:26 PM
by HH
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2 questions about an Armada E500 by
me again
Hi,
I have a friend who bought an E500 from a friend of his. I know nothing
about the machine but I'm asking these questions for him since he doesn't
have internet access with it.
It appears that the machine originally had Win98 but the friend put XP Pro
on it and made it a dual boot system and...
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My M700 Battery by
Ron
My battery was good for 45 minutes until I downloaded the compaq power
management from the compaq xp drivers site. When I hit the calibrate
button
the battery started to charge for about 5 minutes then my laptop shut
down.
Now it only boots on AC. The battery indicator shows a 100% charge but
will...
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February 22nd 05 02:33 PM
by HH
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compaq armada 3500 - how to go to BIOS by
Carmen Mendoza
I have a compaq armada 3500.
I would like to go to the BIOS Settings. But clicking F10, Del or other
keys doesn't work.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
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Compaq Presario 5204 maximum upgrade by
bobodeb
Hello, I bought my computer in 99, it came with a 4gb HD, by Maxtor, a
k6-2 350 mhz processor, and 64mb of memory, I have just purchased a
K6-2 550 mhz processor and am looking at a Maxtor 20gb ide HD, will my
present system board a socket 7 be ok or should I replace it with a
super 7 for the new...
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February 23rd 05 02:11 PM
by HH
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Problem Upgrading HDD on Presario M700 by
Maria Ripanykhazova
Anyone know what two flashing lights at the front means on installing a
blank HDD on an Armada M700? (Nothing else, not on pressing the power
button or on pressing sideways the other button)
There is nothing on the drive and I wanted to install an OS. It wont even
think about looking at the...
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Computer beeping by
DJ75
Hey friends,
I'm desperate for answers to my problem. I've had this Compaq Presari
R3000T laptop for 6 months now and have had the worst problems with i
which has been driving me nuts. I've called Compaq Tech Support, bu
they keep referring me to the driver CD's or reinstalling the OS whic
I've...
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February 24th 05 01:06 PM
by JJO
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Replace hard drive in a Presario 2700T laptop? by
David Casey
I did some searching of the 'net and Google and read the FAQ here in the
group, but so far have been unable to find any mention of my topic. I have
a Compaq Presario 2700T laptop with a 20GB hard drive in it and I'd like to
know if it's possible to replace the hard drive with something bigger. ...
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Problems with Compaq laptop by
John
It is running Windows 98SE with 96MB of RAM
1) Standby no longer works. I hear the sound when I press the button,
but thats it
2) Its become unreliable- I ran Norton Win Doctor and the problems have
remained, and as far as I know all viruses and spyware are off (I have
NAV and McAfee Anti...
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Upgrading a Compaq PII-450 by
Tracy
An out-of-town family member has a Compaq Presario purchased in
December 1998. It's a tower and includes a Pentium II 450 processor.
It has the standard 128 meg of RAM the system came with. Everything is
standard as it was installed by Compaq at the factory. I don't have
the exact system model...
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Restore Disk question by
JJO
I am going to be buying an SR 1300NX and am curious about the recovery
disks. If I want to format and reinstall XP, can I do a selective install
such as Windows XP only or do I have to do a full recovery install. And
keeping with that subject, I have a Windows XP Home CD and understand that I
can...
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February 24th 05 10:17 PM
by JJO
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Armada 100S power problem by
[email protected]
Hello everybody,
I have been using an Armada 100S model laptop for quite some time. I
have been using a proprietary AC/DC converter (not the original one
from Compaq fanufacturer) and as I was working the other day the
Windows system froze. This is something that happens often with
Windows 98. In...
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sr1300nx by
vulcan
any experts out there know what mother board this has and possible prossesor
upgrade path there is it has sempron 3000 works ok with memory and video
upgrade but is a prossesor upgrade posible. dont know what socket it is?
help
thanks in advance
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February 26th 05 12:14 AM
by vulcan
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Compaq FAQ by
HH
Helpful Links:
For drivers, software, manuals/docs
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/
For Quickrestore CDs:
http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp
For Compaq spare parts
http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1
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February 27th 05 02:56 PM
by HH
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Compaq 3000R not booting by
Michael Calwell
Hi Folks,
Am reaquainting myself with compaq servers after some years - need some
help!
Have picked up a compaq 3000R 450Mhz server with twin 9.1 GB disks. It
is in an unknown state - though I was told by the seller that it used to
run FreeBSD.
When I boots It spends five mins in the "Option...
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Amazing Experience . . . by
Kevin Childers
I recently had two most amazing experiences at the HP/Compaq web site.
Using their direct chat system, I communicated with two very knowledgeable
and extremely techs. I got the answers I needed in depth and without any BS
in under 5 minutes each. When the one didn't have the answer right at...
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now you must call MS to activate by
Echy
skydiver wrote:
"As of February 28, Microsoft will disable Internet activation for all
Windows XP product keys..."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1769531,00.asp
What does this mean? Well, activation used to be quick and automatic via an
internet connection for OEM Windows XP....
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February 28th 05 10:25 AM
by Echy
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No video on Compaq Deskpro SFF by
Jonathan Eales
I had traded-in a non-working Compaq Deskpro Small Form Factor system.
800MHz P3/128Mb/15GB/CD-ROM.
This does not give a video signal from either the integrated video card or a
PCI graphics card that I inserted.
No sound beeps but green LEDs on the motherboard, fans working, floppy seek
and hard...
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February 28th 05 08:46 PM
by JoeC
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