Now that all the votes are in, looks like a step at a time is in order. 1. Abandon Primary Ide, and Install Promise card. 2. Hook existing drive to Promise primary as master. 3. If everything still works, hook new drive to Promise as slave. If something is wrong at this point, change all to CSEL....

Machine is old Presario 7599 desktop. Milk was spilled on keyboard while computer was running. Plugged in new keyboard and system was locked up. After powering off and attempting to restart, the Compaq splash screen shows up on the monitor, and a flashing cursor in upper left corner. This stays...

Hi, I have a Presario 5150 K6-II 350 MHz with a hard disk of 6 Go which i would like to change. Anyone can you say to me what's the maximal size of tha hard disk allowed for this computer with Windows 98 and Windows 2000 please ? Thanks in advance.

Hi All: I have a Compact Presario desktop, and I just purchased Nortons anti-spyware 2005. The problem is when I try to install it, a window keeps coming up which says that I still have NIT 2004 still installed and I need to un-install it before I can continue. I have taken out everything which...

Hello I have a problem ... my machine won't boot up .. it shows only the screen where in the right bottom corner shows the type of the machine (Deskpro 2000) and in the upper left corner shows the ammount of RAM installed.What can I do?? Thank you Sorry for my English

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 2266 desktop and the quick restore disk has been accidentally damaged and is no longer usable. Is there anyone out there that has one they would be willing to sell or make me a copy of. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would love to be able to restore this...

Hi: I have a 5320 bought in Nov 2001. It recently started performing sluggishly and I thought of doing a factory restore using the recovery CD. However, the hard drive crashed during tis procee. My question is, if I buy a generic hard drive and install on this machine, will it be possible to use...

Hello if somebody can help me I do not have PENTIUM IV COMPAQ PRESARIO the problem is that when treatment to install Windows XP the machine is reinitiated to me not it can I install normal the Windows 98 and when treatment to install programs a little heavy is reinitiated the characteristics again...

I installed a Diamond Stealth 500 card in a 7360 running Win200Pro. Other than there's no configuration software the card seems to running fine. The problem is using games such as Star Wars:Pod Racer. The intros look fine but when it gets to the games the screen flickers making it useless to play ...

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Hello i have a evo n800v notebook with 40gb harddisk. the problem is that the disk is very loud when he isn't in use. during reading data he is quiet but when he has finished he makes some "click" noises. i had never problems with the functionallity of the disk. have someone the same problem? can i...

I'm trying to work on this laptop for a friend. I tried to load win2k, and I got an error about non-compliant BIOS for APCI. It suggested updating the BIOS. I checked the website, downloaded and ran the flash update - same error. Will this thing just not run win2000? But...in windows 98,...

Hi, I really don't know a whole lot about use prices for laptops, I have a chance to get a 4220t Armada with a be that holds the cd-rom and battery with JLB speakers, bateries are ion-lithium, screen is tft ad looks good, ram is maxed out at 96mb, floppy drive, a mini marble size tracking ball has...

Hi, I'm trying to install Win98 on this system. It currently has no OS. I wondered why my Win 98 boot CD could not install the CD drivers, then discovered that it is because this is a SCSI cd! So I was assured these were the drivers I needed, and loaded them onto the root directory...

I have an old deskpro, don't no what model but it is 133mhz P1 64ram utp and I changed the old with a new one and now I can't enter the bios. I searched the compaq site but I didn't find anything... anyone can help ??

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I have a Compaq Presario 2100 and when I turn it on it goes to the black screen with the red compaq letters and it freezes there. If you press escape or f2 or one of the other options it starts that operation but then never boots to windows. If anyone has seen this problem or can help please let...

Hello New to this Newsgroup so don't know if this is regarded as helpful or "minding other people's business" but there is a warning out about a newsgroup posting going around that poses as a home movie of popstar Michael Jackson but is in fact infected by a malicious Trojan horse. Details at the...

Ok, I Think I Know The Answer Is No To This Question Before I Ask It But Here Goes. Is There Any Options To Upgrade A Compaq Presario 2100 (model 2178ea) Apart From Memory? Ideally I'd Like To Upgrade The Amd Xp-m 2500+ Processor. If I Had To, Id Replace The Mainboard But I Think It Could Be A...

Hi Everyone, I have a Compaq Presario PC Model 5BW285. Pentium III 866 Mhz with 128 MB RAM I have noticed that the PC is very sluggish with lots of disk thrashing. Upon checking the available RAM using the MS System Information utility, there is very little left! 384 KB out of 128 MB. The...