I can't figure out what happened. I turned the thing off ,moved it to the other side of the room and now there's no video.I hooked up the monitor to my lap top and it works fine. When you turn on the monitor if it's not hooked up to the machine I get a message Check video cables. Then when I hook...

Can someone recommend a decent 64mb agp video card for this box? it came with an 8mb. The display has black streaks to the right of any graphics, it won't restore the drivers and I keep getting an error message stating the device is not functioning properly. I think the card is toast. Thanks Jim

Hi! I want to install winxp on a 20 GB hitachi travelstar put into a compaq armada 1560d notebook (166Mhz, 80mb ram). Problem: cannot boot xp, 8GB lock from bios; winxp detects 20 GB, How can I get my notebook booting from this 20 GB HD? Tanks for info an greetings Wolfram!

Hopefully someone can help me. I bought this computer from Wal-Mart about 6 months back and have had nothing but problems. Compaq Presario Model SR1803WM 3.2ghz Celeron Processor 512mb Ram 60Gb Hard drive Cd burner/CdRom No floppy No Windows CD

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...

I have a Compaq Presario 5004US with Windows ME. I have tried to adjust the modems connection sound by going to control panel and sliding the bar to the OFF position and typing in AMT0 (zero) in the extra settings (advanced tab), with no results what so ever. The sound is really irritating and...

Hello I am looking for help locating drivers for this machine...uses Windows 98---seems like all is OK except for the modem. I would appreciate any assistance. I have gone through all of what I could find at compaq, but probably have missed it. I appreciate the time. Thanks

I have a Presario 6010 US that just shut down on me the other day. I stepped out of the room for a little while and it had just shut down, and won't re-start. When I depress the power button, it used to turn green for a moment, now there is a blinking red light just to the left of the power...

Hello Norton Anti-Virus bundled with Compaq 700 Laptop's seems to have a incompatibly issue with SP1 and SP2... NAVSHEXT.DLL conflicts with system services.

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Someone recommend a laptop, please. My budget is about $3500.00 I'm replacing an Armada 7800 300HZ with two batteries in laptop all the time and a wireless linksys WPC11 3.0 NIC. I have a DVD and FLOPPY that I insert when needed. I want a big screen 15" and I need higher resolution than...

Can anybody help me with my fainting Presario desktop? This S6010V Presario desktop with XP Home and all the latest service packs and updates freezes after I use the CD drive. It cycles, freezing for ten seconds to a minute, then works for five seconds, then freezes, and then works, and... well,...

This is typical of the situation where the monitor is not being detected by plug-n-play. Go to start, control panel, display properties, advanced, monitor and see if you can change the monitor to the one attached. May have to look in SoftPaqs for monitor update patch. If brave or knowledgeable, can...

Graphics work on an armada??? Isn't that kinda like racing lawnmowers? "Louis de Stoutz" wrote in message ... Hi Folks, I have the following problem with the screen on my Compaq Armada E500:

I was recently given a Presario 4704. The specs are pretty lousy by today's standards, only 16 megs RAM and a 1.5 gig hard drive and a 200 MHz Pentium 1. I'd like to use it to play back VCD's. Is this feasible? If so, where can I find the proper codecs and a video player for this machine?...

I have a Compaq Presario 5030, in which I have installed Windows XP Pro. with no problems. What I am having a problem with is locating an update for the BIOS for this model. I've looked out on the HP website with no success. Could anyone please help me with this? Does anyone know where I might...

Hello all... I have a number of Compaq Deskpro 686P2, 686P3 and Evo D500, 510 series (686O2) systems. All of these seem to be pretty closely related, and all of them have a setting in the BIOS known as the "UUID". This setting is disabled by default, and Compaq's in-setup help isn't very helpful,...

What can I say? I saved it from an untimely end at a computer recyclers. It's completely alive but unhappy about the state of its CMOS battery. Specifically, it asks me for a configuration disk. I can "press F1 to continue" and it will boot, but...I'd like to configure it if I could. Amazingly...

Hello all... I recently came into the second of two Compaq Deskpro EN systems. This one is a Pentium III 866. I almost came home with a whole pallet of them...as the sellers were tired of looking at them and asked me to make an offer on the whole pallet. I didn't, even though I could conceivably...

I realize it's been ~4 years, and the only explanation I have is that I was feeling nostalgic, remembering better times in alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq, wandering through the Google Groups archives when the subject of one of your messages struck me as interesting. On November 2nd, 2004 at 8:17 PM,...