Hi All, not sure if this is going to make sense, but here goes, I have 3500 running win2k fully s/packed and h/fixed (according to microsoft) it has an external ps2 mouse bu th eproble occcours equally on the internal pointer or a USB mouse, and here is the problem: The mouse clicks randomly,...

I'm thinking of getting an old Presario 5000 (5WV254) and installing a new motherboard, CPU and RAM - keeping the drives, the PSU etc. and installing '98 Is this doable? I'd be happy to have something running at around 2GHz, and drive transfer speed isn't that important. Can anybody suggest...

I found a presario 7360 (Via Chipset, K6-2 500)on the street, but it does not have a power supply. I notice that it may use micro power supply. i want to move the board to another case and the motherboard does fit a standard 20 pin atx connector. My question is Does a standard atx power supply...

I have an older Pavillion XL766. I want to upgrade the memory. The documentation online says there are three memory banks - each capbable of taking 256mb of ram for a total of 768mb. I'm sure this documentation was published before 512 and larger modules were even made. My question is will the...

Yes they were correct. I'll just save the money for a new comp! -- Lupuss

Hi all, I'm trying to install a USR wireless card (USR5410) in my Presario 1210 laptop (Pentium 150 Mhz, 128 Mb Ram, etc). According to USR, the minimum spec is a Pentium 100. The laptop won't detect the card being inserted but it does detect it being pulled out (beeps). I've done a fresh install...

I have a presario 2200 laptop, 2months old, it will after being off a night reset the time to 12 am jan 1 2004. does this unit have a cmos battery or is the time onboard a chip. it certainly is too soon for a battery to fail. any other reasons for such a failure, the battery is kept...

Yes there is a cmos battery and it surely does sound like it's dead. KC From: "Billy Radio" Subject: presario 2200 laptop time loss Date: Sunday, February 06, 2005 6:20 PM I have a presario 2200 laptop, 2months old, it will after being off a night reset the time to 12 am jan...

Hi, I have a Presario 80XL4 laptop and it's time to switch out the hard drive. I just got a 40 gig hd but the auto-detect stalls during boot. I thought it might be the BIOS but it turns out the latest update is March 2001 and the laptop already has it. Is there a size limit? The unit comes with...

Hi, I have an *old* Compaq LTE 5280 that I'm trying to set up for a friend. Nothing fancy...load up 95 or 98 and get it on the net. (preferably 98 so I don't have to worry about partition size issues) This laptop has interchangeable floppy and CD-ROM drives. I can only have one in at a time....

I'm the lucky (?) owner of one of these units. AFAIK, it didn't come with a 5.25 floppy installed. But I need to install one to read some 1.2 mb floppies I have. I've got a floppy, but I need a mounting kit. Does anyone know where I might try to find a kit? An antique Compaq club or antique...

Hi all. Anyone know how to open up an Armada 1520d so I can change the fan? Regards Jonas B

I am looking for drivers for a compaq SD-612B DVD-ROM for Windows ME. I have looked in a number of driver sites and also the Compaq website. The only driver I can find is for XP. if anyone knows where it find this I would be grateful. Papa

This is a post to document problems I had installing Windows XP on an old Compaq Presario 7461 (but probably applies to other models). 1. Install Windows XP goes through first stage (copy from CD to hard-disk) the fails to reboot. Basically both the hard-drive and the CD-ROM were wired to the...

Can this model of Compaq use ECC memory? I ask only because there is a lot of it about! Also, what CL should I use? CL2 or CL3? Thanks, Paul DS. -- Please remove the "x-" if replying to sender.

I am not a pc guru, I have a compaq LTE 5250 that was given to me a couple of years ago. In the last 2 years I have managed to get a cdrom, hard drive, and floppy drive from ebay(that's why it was given to me)I upgraded this from windows 98 to XP..actually the hard drive I am using now is out of a...

I am looking at a non-working Presario 1200 for a friend. A green light is lit when power is conected (from the brick), but nothing else works - it cannot be turned on. Maybe a fuse, maybe a bad power-on switch.. or something else. So I got myself a Torx 8 screwdriver and undid the 6 screws I...

I need the pinouts for the LED/power switch connector on my old Compaq mobo. HP tells me the info is not available and the service centers won't give me the info. Can anyone help? Dominic

Hello, I have a Compaq Presario 6024US that came with an Intel Pentium 4 1.8Ghz processor (mPGA-478, 400Mhz FSB,Willamette core). I would like to know what my best case scenario would be for upgrading the processor. In other words, what's the fastest P4 processor I can hope to find to replace my...

Explain the symptoms. If the hard drive was previously used in an NT, 2000 or Linux system, the old partitions must be deleted and new ones created and formatted before installing Windows. Is the hard drive known to be defect-free? Did you run diagnostic tests of the drive? ... Ben Myers On...