Davy, A friend of mine is searching for a laptop for her son for college. My daughter has a dell and I have this compaq here but I'm still finding it hard to determine what manufacture makes a solid laptop that lasts. I haven't owned an apple or a sony to compare to so that makes helping her...

Gday All I am about to buy a Compaq Evo N160. I am just curious to know if there are any known problems with this model ?? Thanks for all your Help Mucko

I just wanted to take the time to thank you both for sharing your knowledge and time to help me out on the problem I had with installing the F-10 partition. The way you both described worked very well, and the system partition is installed. Matter of fact, it is a good thing that it got...

Hello again, all. I am seeking advice and information on what type of 9mm or 12mm HDs I can install into my Compaq Armada 1750. The only thing I'm sure of at this point is that IBM Travelstars, the ATA/IDE kind will work. What I would like to know is do any of the newer models of laptop...

I have been here before and already got some hints regarding and old Compaq Presario CDTV 528 (all in one piece model). I don't really want to sink more money than the price for a LAN card into it... Would it be possible to use the machine as a dedicated computer to run a P2P software like Emule or...

Hi, I got two Compaq Presario 500 machines for free and would like to prepare them for some junior high school kids in the neighborhood. I have loaded Windows 98SE and MS Word, and would like to enable them for email use. The problem is that they came with telephone plugs to connect a modem....

Problem is that battery charges up to 99% then stops there. This means that the battery discharge and recondition option in the CMOS boot-setup will not work because the computer believes that it is not yet charged. Any suggestions? Thanks

Help? DOS software does not run properly. WHen you hit Shirt-Alt-Enter, Windows should take you to a full screen DOS mode. I have two problems on an Evo (1) Somes up in text mode using just the central 640x480 pixels of

Am looking for a quickrestore for a Compaq Armada 7730MT. Was given this laptop by a co-worker who did not know what the problem with it was. After getting it up and running I decided to reformat and reinstall Windoes 98. Bad move. :oops: Tried Compaq and they insist they do not have the disks...

I have an old compaq system, that a friend would like to use, however the powerpack needs replacing. The powerpack does not seem to be a standard one, it seems thinner and has a corner "cut off". Does anyone know where I may be able to get one of these, if still available? Thanks David

Is there an instruction manual anywhere showing how on earth you get an additional memory chip easily into a Presario 4508? Mine has 16 meg onboard and a 16 meg DIMM in it. I am trying to run 98 for my 6 year old son who needs a computer which can run programs all of which seem to be set up for...

it works fine with a charged battery , but my battery is dead and the ac adaptor doesnt charge it or power up the laptop,with or without the battery., can someone give me some advice , could it only be that i need a new battery,is the laptop suppose to work with the ac adaptor alone. thanks in...

i have been on the phone for 3 hours trying to order the restore disks part #5069-4739. all i get is a runaround and transferred to india and back. most info i could get was the part number. my pc is a presario 6333om desktop. bought 4 years ago. hard drive crashed and had to replace. original...

looking for source of restore disks for my compaq presario 6000 desktop model 6333om. compaq (hp), shuffled my call to 6 departments only to fess up that restore disks are available, but no one knows where! current part number for the set is: 5069-4739. tried to use web to order, but they wanted 12...

I have replaced a motherboard for a friend on a Compaq Presario 7000 series. The new motherboard front panel pins do not match exactly the molex connector supplied by Compaq. I can extract the pins/wires from the molex, but i need to know what colors go to what on the motherboard. Thanks, -myk

The RAM which I need is this with the compaq SN# 244399-001. The Kingston equiv. is this one with the Kinston part Nr:KTC-SO133/256 and this is equiv. with 3 not 1 compaq part numbers the 232449-B21, 232449-B21-KT, 244399-001. My question: are all this three compaq part numbers only a different...

Does anyone know how/where I can get thr UIABOMWR.EXE utility for Compaq? thanks for any help

Please help a newbie ...I have a CP 700 which had Widows XP.. ..hard drive went bad a month after warranty expired.. bought a hitachi HD and installed it.. it checks as good via scandisk and it partitions and formats ok with downloaded boot disks from web. The problem is that the 3 Quick Restore...

allright i have a laptop presario 1700 , 600 cpu, i thought of upgrading the cpu, i pulled out a working 800 mhz from another presario 1700, i swapped cpu's , the laptop boots , but i do not see anything on the screen , no sound, simply nothing i powered up the 2nd laptop , same results. i...

I have a desktop called pressario 5900T. I upgraded my OS to winXP from win98. After this upgradation, I am not able to connect the computer to TV. In the display I don't see TV monitor installed. What is the problem? I guess, the right drivers are not installed. Where do I find the right...