I am looking for a dvd drive for my Compaq 1688 laptop. It has a cd drive in it now. Does anyone know which part # will work in a 1688? I have replaced the AMD K2-400 mhz processor with a AMD K2+ 475 mhz, replaced the 4.3 gig hard drive wth a 30 gig hard drive and maxed the memory at 192 meg. If I...

He formateado el disco por varios problemas ahora no se como volver al estado original tengo el CD de recovery pero no se hacer Alguien me puede ayudar Gracias

I recently obtained the below computer and I want to add a side chassis fan through a 4 control fan speed controller (listed on ebay). The Power Supply has unusual connectors. Any suggestions on connector adapters for 4 pin molex to the power supply connectors. Then the speed controller would...

Can not find MotherBoard manual on the internet, also checked with HP. Need information on CPU fan connection (blue, green, yellow, black are the wires). The best I could find, a different forum thinks that it supplies 1 amp (as most MOBO supply 1 amp) and the fan draws less than 1/4 amp and is...

a friend dropped off his compaq presario desktop 5251 after wiping the harddrive by vaccuming out the case (got the vaccum to close to the hard drive). im attempting to reinstall his system for him but i dont have any of the original software. i have no problem installing xp pro on the machine. ...

Wondering if anyone has information about the best hard drive replacements for compaq presario laptops. In particular, presario 700US series, and also regarding any compatibility problems experienced when installing new hard drives, not from compaq. Any help would be appreciated.

Just bought a new Compaq Presario 2172 Ahtlon that is advertised as 2500+ and is supposed to go at 1.87 GHz. When I go into System Information, it says 519 MHz. Why is that happeneing and what can I do about it. I have had the machine about a week. -- Nate Rosenthal

I know that Compaqs and HPs are pretty much the same. Saw a Compaq 2172 that is comaprable to the HP 4502. In the specs I noticed that the HP had a soundblaster 16 sound card and it wasn't there in the Compaq. Is it in the Compaq or not. One would think that it is, but..... -- Nate Rosenthal

Want to upgrade memory in Presario 2172us notebook. Want to use same brand. Would prefer to buy memory before opening machine. Does Compaq use one brand . Is there a way to find out Thanks

Have a donated computer with a HP 7200 series cd burner installed. I don't have anything in the way of software. Where can I get drivers for it. HPs website is not exactly the forthcoming.

School I work for has some Deskpro 2000s donated. In one that had W95, I reformatted the the hard drive and put W98 on it. Couplee of things. 1) I get this line across the screen. Shall I assume that the video card may be on its way out? 2) After installing the Ethernet Controller I can get...

I'm asked to fix a friend's Compaq Presario. The machine had a virus, and the hardware works fine. The last time I fixed it, I used the recovery partition. I asked him to order the recovery CDs from Compaq, and they did. I attempted to restore the machine from the discs Compaq sent, and...

My original Seagate 10G is damaged, so I am trying to replace it with WD 120G drive as a master. However, regardless of various permutations of jumper settings, when I try to install any OS, it fails on a blue screen error. I haven't upgraded any BIOS s/w or anything. Can somebody please point me...

Also were can I purchase a boot disk. Titus Francoeur

I need help with this problem of mine for the pass 3 days.First I tried to re-install windows but persists, then I tryed re-installing the file by going to the recovery console no success. I've tried every possible way! I tried to delete boot.ini by doing Del C:\Boot.ini but says access is denied...

The Video Card that I really want to get is called a ATI Radeon X1900 XTX 512MB GDDR3 PCI Express(16x) Dual DVI Video Card.But costs over $600 at Tigerdirect.com I think it will go good with and Socket 939, A8N nForce SLI (Scaleable Link Interface) Ultra Motherboard, with a AMD (Advanced Micro...

My Computer's Hard Drive Keep's saying Disk Read Error and I tryed reinstalling windows but persists...What do I do now? Titus Francoeur

I'm looking for parts for a Compaq Presario 4824 does anybody know a site were I can purchase parts for this particular computer... Titus Francoeur

i have compaq deskpro 4000 . when i tries to enter the setup it demand for compaq diagnostics diskette . i have lost this. pls tell from where to get this or download this and prepare this diskette bye nkg

Hi all, I looking for front panel USB pinout There is 4 / 5 pins on MB http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/9996/012hs0.jpg] And same number of pins on my new case connector http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7108/02so8.jpg] I`d download user manuals from HP.com, but still can't find USB pinout