I've got a Compaq AP500 professional Workstation with the following specs: Dual PII 400Mhz processors 512MB RAM Two 4.3GB Wide-Ultra SCSI-3 drives ELSA Synergy II AGP video + onboard video 32X IDE CD-ROM 325 watt Compaq proprietary power supply (1 year old) One honkin' huge, heavy tower case

I am a MAC user that also uses and owns a couple of PC's. I would like to upgrade my Hard Drive in one of my PC's from 80GB to 400GB. I have the Hard Drive. On a MAC I know exactly how to Clone my HD to the new drive. On a MAC I use SuperDupe to move all my stuff from one drive to another. IT...

Hi, Someone in this group gave me some good instruction on upgrading the Armada 1750 that someone had given me. I upgraded the memory and now have 192 mb. That was easy, but I'm not confident enough in getting the right hard drive, say from eBay, or elsewhere because I'm not familiar with...

I have a Compaq Presario desktop 5834. I want to upgrade it the best I can. I know nothing about upgrading motherboards and processors, but I have added memory (128 for a total of 196), a PCI video card, an Ethernet card, and a TV tuner/capture card. This is what I would like to do and if you...

I have a presario 6420nx that I am very fond of. It is running the AMD 2200+ 1.8, and I have a 2600+ 2.13 laying around. I wonder, would it be a problem to swap this in? Will there be BIOS or CMOS issues?

Hello, Does anyone know of newer 3D video cards that will fit older Compaq Deskpro P3 machines with the proprietary AGP slots that only take AGP cards with a partial metal back with the video cable connector high on the card?

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...

I'm trying to upgrade a Presario 2266 Internet PC from scratch. I do not have any of the recovery disk or drivers yet. I'm trying to get it ready to send to my grandkids in the Philippines. I have replaced the CPU with an AMD K6-2 350 and am trying to find the correct jumper settings for the...

Hi I have a presario 7000 (model number 7EL1kmatct0) it runs Windows XP service pack 2, has 128 megs of Ram, an 80 gb harddrive and has a NVidia TNT video card. I saw a Radeon 9550 (with 256 MB of video RAm) for sale and I was wondering if it would work in this computer.

How do you update the firmware on the AIT50 Hotswap tape drive? I would prefer a Windows-based utility for doing this if one exists. The Compaq tape drive floppy set of seven floppies is just hanging on our Proliant 6400R, and I don't see a way to get it to do the upgrade correctly. -- Will

I just wanted to take the time to thank you both for sharing your knowledge and time to help me out on the problem I had with installing the F-10 partition. The way you both described worked very well, and the system partition is installed. Matter of fact, it is a good thing that it got...

I have a 5430US and I can see where I can download a self extracting file on Compaq's site to fix the problem, but if I can't even boot the computer then how am I supposed to install the patch to repair it? Also is this a good indication that the HD is failing or is it simply a bad sector...

Hi, After a new install on a new HD of win 98 SE , in the Device Manager I find under other devices an unknown device, both with yellow question marks. I have installed the drivers for sound, display, mouse, keyboard etc. etc. all working fine, and I now wonder which device causes the a.m. entry in...

I've just acquired one and I'd like to defenestrate it. Knoppix 3.2 won't boot, and Partition Magic 8 fails when I try to shrink the Windows XP partition to open some space for a distro that expects an empty partition.

I've had assistance here lately with my Deskpro EN SFF 886. I had been ignoring a sound like the hard drive switching itself on and off for a little while now and tonight it sems the power supply has blown. There was a small pop and a smell of burning and the green light's out for good, with a...

Currently I have a burnt out armads M300 around the front audio jack U40 and C148. The ic was so badly charred that I cannot identify the part number. I am pretty sure that the burnt ic is the problem but to replace a mother board would be too expensive. Please advice U40 partnumber

I have a Compaq Presario model 7110US. How do I find out what kind of RAM is in it? I want to add more RAM to my system. Thanks. ----- Kim/Dreamspinner3 Visit My Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/dreamspinner3/

How to obtain two desktops when I connect second monitor in windows 2000, I have armada E500, whit win98 it's not a problem to get it, how to do this in win 2000 ??

I have a Compaq Armada E500 (PIII/600mhz/10Gb) with the ATI Rage Mobility graphics chip, running WinXP Prof.. I can't get the (composite) TV-out to work... well it does, but it's only in black and white. Does anyone have any ideas what's going wrong? Have software that i received with the Compaq...

I've got a problem sending the video signal out to a tv via svideo connection. I have the cable and my notebook (win XP) has a svideo out. My TV has a svideo in. When i try to send the video signal out, changing xp configurations, the tv flashes just for a second and then it cames black as...