I'm sharing with you my secret of the ultimate comfort using a laptop. Working with a laptop desk helps cool my laptop and it's a lot more easier to handle. The painful experience of aching wrists, strained neck and back is a story of the past with ergonomic typing and viewing angles. I feel more...

I recently acquired an Compaq Armada M700 off Ebay. I've got Win XP Pro running on it. I got the latest power management software from the Compaq website running on it. I've got a battery is the system that reads 100% and when you pull the batter out and press the button on the battery, all the...

A while back I posted about a buggy presario I was using, a 1610 to be exact. Problem was system would freeze each time u moved touchpad and pressed key as same time, require hard reboot. Despite my skepticism, everyone here was so sure the firmware/drivers at the Compuke , now HP website would...

For your information: We recently installed WinXP on our new 80 gig Western Digital HD for our Compaq Presario 5245 that we bought new a few years ago: AMD-K6-2, 400 MHz, originally 96 memory, now 256 memory. We started having all types of problems with WindowsXP BSOD stop error messages. We...

Has anyone bought that $500 Compaq Presario now on sale at Walmart (AMD Athlon XP 2400+)? Is it any good? We have a Compaq Presario 5245 that we bought new a few years ago (AMD-K6-2, 400MHz).

The DVD drive in my Presario 1675 laptop died some time ago and I would like to replace or upgrade it. After some digging I found that the drive is a Toshiba SD-C2202. At the Toshiba Web site they list several models that include CD burners; for example, the SD-C2212. This drive, like the...

Has anyone tried installing a non-Compaq DVD drive in a Compaq laptop? I talked to Toshiba and they said that their newer drives should be interface-compatible with the SD-C2202 in my Presario 1675 laptop, but that Compaq may have changed the device ID info inside the drive.

I`ve used the Quick Restore disks on just about every Compaq I`ve ever owned..You should have no problem..But at one point it will ask you for the product code that came with your computer..If you don`t have that you will be lost

Hello..I have a friend who has a Compaq Presario 1681 someone gave him and he wishes to format it and do a clean install of Windows XP onto it...How would one format the hard drive of this particular computer and how does one start it in MS-DOS mode?..Thank you ever so much

Hi, I have a Compaq Armada 1540DM laptop. I purchased an Ethernet PC card for it about a month ago. I used it that day and it worked fine. A week later, I noticed a strong smell coming from the laptop, and when the screen comes on, in the right hand corner, the display area is brighter than the...

I have a Compaq 5BW, 5000 series computer, 733mhz PIII with 256 ram, system board is o6coh. I'm using an Intel 82810e graphics controller with 8mb video memory, want to get a 32mb or 64mb card. I need to know if my system uses an AGP or PCI card? And if upgrading to a 32mb or 64mb will work ok with...

Does anybody know where I can find a Restore CD for my Compaq Armada 1540DM Laptop?? Any help would be great! Thanks, Mitch~

Hi, I was wondering if there was a QuickRestore CD for the armada 1540dm. If so, could you please give me more information.... Thanks

Hi, I have a Compaq Armada 1540DM computer, running NT Terminal Server and Windows ME on the same drive. My problem was when I first got the laptop, it used to be able to boot from a cd. Then, here's me being stupid, I downloaded an old BIOS update and replaced a new BIOS update with an old one...

I have 2 same Compaq Armada E500 laptops. In one of them i lost the power-on password and i can't turn it on. What can i do? -- mitnik ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mitnik's Profile: http://www.futurehardware.in/member.php?userid=512 View this thread:...

Hey guys I had purchased a new 500watt power supply and was wanting to put it in my new case... but ran into a problem... connected the new psu to my compaq motherboard and nothing happened... it would though when I used the compaq psu. Well I have discovered that compaq uses a different standard...

Hello, how i can get to the bios in this laptop, whitch key i must press before turn on the power, i try press DEL, F2, and nothing. Please help me.

I have a Compaq 7360 (an older computer). The only thing I've have ever done to this computer was to install more ram. It worked fine for a couple months and then one day the computer wouldn't boot. I see the compaq logo and see the computer checking the memory. That's it, it just stops after the...

I have a Compaq 7360 (an older computer). The only thing I've have ever done to this computer was to install more ram. It worked fine for a couple months and then one day the computer wouldn't boot. I see the compaq logo and see the computer checking the memory. That's it, it just stops after the...

Hi, I was hoping to upgrade to Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005! Anyone knows where I can get an upgrade CD for my m380n? I was deployed in Iraq and I missed the upgrade offered by HP! I talked to them on the phone today and the ****ers refused to honor the upgrade. I am not mad...