Hi I have an old 4400US with a celeron 1.3; I had previously upgraded it to 512mb RAM & a 250 GB hdd & I was wondering what would be the best option if I want to upgrade the processor as frugaly as possible. I recently saw a combo deal at newegg for a AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 San Diego 2.6GHz Socket...

Got an 80-gigger in there. Would like to put in a 120, 200, 250, or 300 - depending on what's on sale. Anybody know how to tell if the BIOS will support the larger sizes? -- PeteCresswell

Buying a new laptop this week - for price and features, the Compaq R3030US (or if I decide I really need a DVD burner, the R3050) seems to have everything I could ask for, at a price I can afford. But how good are they? I've heard some negatives about Compaq, but then again I've heard bad things...

I have a 12-year-old Compaq Presario CDS 520 desktop machine that (astonishingly) is still running after all these years - however, it's recently become highly tempramental as to whether it wants to power up or not, and I suspect the cause of this is that the CMOS battery needs replacing. The...

Last night I hurriedly went to connect the psu cable to my 2178ea and put it in another port by mistake. There was a slight crackle and the computer is now dead with none of the power indicator lights on. I want to salvage the contents of the hard drive and assume it wont be affected. Do I need to...

cant seem to id the model i have any ideas... have a armada 7400 6366t13x.... has internal modem... cannot get into bios with F10 as per man... also NO OS works with modem... maybe off in bios... can anyone point the way?

I know it's there for a reason, but I have my computer in my bedroom, and that power light is simply annoying, especially at night! Maybe if it weren't so bright... Anyway, I have a Compaq Presario SR1020NX, and I was wondering if there was any setting I could change to turn the lights out on...

What's the fastest processor I can fit into my Presario 5000 PC (Model No: 5WV254, currently fitted with an AMD Duron 700 MHz processor, and 448 Mb of RAM)? Would a more up-to-date processor enhance performance to any appreciable degree? I don't do games, just office stuff, photo-editing, audio...

hello, i have a very big problem.... If someone have a compaq armada m300 battery, please can tell me the output voltage of every connecting terminal? Thanks

Hi, I am having trouble sourcing a power supply in the UK for my old Compaq Armada 1750. Does anybody know where I can get one? Cheers Lenny

Greetings, I have added 2 new sticks of ram ea 128mb to my Presario 100P. Now it has 320Mb but it will not see more than 192 Mb. I can put each stick into the DIMM1 slot and it will see it ok singularly but when I fill all 3 slots I get 192Mb. All help greatly appreciated. TIA

I have a compaq presario 5150. I've upgraded it to a dvd-rom drive, cd-r drive and more memory. Now I need more hard drive space. I can't find 5.25 hard drives but I can get and adapter and just use a 3.5? I want to get 80 gb and put Windows2000 on it. Would it be able to handle those upgrades?

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I´m looking for a hard drive multibay adapter for the notebook : Compaq LTE 5100, any hint where I can get it ? Peter

thank you for your input on the parts my daughter was very excited that we could do this on Her pc . i spent the 30 bucks to get a 166 intel chip and 4 32meg sticks of memory from http://www.isellsurplus.com/ . i need to get thermal compound before i can add the 166 , but the memory is causing a...

We had a lightning strike nearby the other day, and I lost the sound on my Compaq 6320US. My old Compaq laptop had a system diagnostic program to test the system hardware, but I can't find one on this computer, or on the support website. I'm running XP Pro. Any ideas?

I am trying to help my daugther's nanny by upgrading her Presario to something better. I need to find out more details about the motherboard configuration but cannot find it anywhere, and compaq's website does not list that info. Basically, I need to know the fastest processor the mobo will...

Finally I managed to get my iPAQ synchronize with ActiveSync on my desktop via Bluetooth. Read about how I did it at http://www.logodesignworks.com/iPAQ-activesync-bluetooth-synchronization.htm Best of luck! Jeff

Hi, i have an old Compaq Professional WS 5100 dual PII-300 with no bios and without f10 partition. The problems it's related to the setup's diskettes: "F10 Setup and Diagnostics for Compaq Workstations / version 1.15 A (8 Oct 98)". When i try to run setup.exe, after booting from the diskettes,...

Hello. Is there anything unusual about replacing the hard drive on this laptop? Is part of the bios on the hard drive? I don't have the restore cds so if there are any files necessary that aren't on the window install disks I'd like to know. Thanks. Chuck