Can someone tell me what the "Fn" key does on a Compaq keyboard and how to use it? I just bought a Compaq CPQ125KB keyboard and noticed a key marked "Fn" located below the ENTER key. In the brief manual that came with the keyboard there is no mention of this key. Would appreciate any information. ...

Hi group. I've got a 5441 that has been wiped clean and reloaded with Win98. Restarted it and had the crappy VGA video and no sound. Went to the compaq site and downloaded the video and sound drivers for the system. Installed the video driver, rebooted, and that's now fine. Tried to install the...

Hello THe I have a Presario 1247 laptop which I believe it has a Trident Cyberblade 3d graphic card. I cannot find a driver for either windows 98 or Me. Any help in the subject would be appreciated. Thank you,

I 'm looking for the drivers, settings for a Compaq Presario 1600 146xl (laptop) Designed for Win 98 SE but the Restore CD is damaged. I Installed a normal Win98SE but can't find the correct settings for sound - USB-ethernet and DISPLAY I 'me specially looking for settings and drivers for my...

Hi all... I have a Compaq Presario 1500 notebook, P4, 2.4 GHz, and it spontaneously powers off when using certain programs. Before it shuts down the fan gets pretty loud, so I'm assuming it has to do with heat? Any suggestions on what to do or how to solve this? Thanks! Jeff

I've DL the SP2824.EXE (I had to use a Mac w OS 9 to access the internet) I've tired using the file on a flopy with the 4770 during boot up -- no joy. I've tried copying the file to a flopy then executing on a pc in the DOS mode -- no joy. I've also tried to copy the file to the C:\ drive on a...

I have to Compaq laptops. One Armada M700 and one Armada 100. What RAM should I buy? PC100 or PC133? Mvh Brian

How can I make games run full-screen? I'm using a Armada M700 laptop. In some games you can adjust the resolution higher to use full-screen, but then the game runs slower. - not good.. ex: Soldier of fortune 2, runs fine with 640x480 but does not use the whole screen.. --

I have an old Compaq 7594 that I upgraded to 1.1 gig processor and the stock 64 meg ram. Running a 40 gig HD with XP and the original compaq cd rom off of the second IDE cable. (Was) running original compaq bundled software on a 20 gig HD and an HP dvd300i burner off of the first IDE cable. The dvd...

the keyboard on my compaq presario 1200XL laptop has failed, after being attacked with cranberry juice... I can find plenty of places to buy a replacement keyboard (part no 171003-031). Trouble is I can't find any instructions on how to remove the old key board and fit the new one. can any one...

Hello. I have a Compaq DeskPro 4000 PC with 64MB of RAM and a 6GB HD. I wanted to know what Motherboard Compaq used in this system. Mine has a Intel Pentium II MMX in it, which is the "Cartridge" type. Thanks in Advance, Nick

Hi I've got a "C series 810C" Handheld and it's not working well. When i turn it on it displays the wallpaper for 2 seconds and then the image dissapears, and the screen just goes white. what can i do.

Hello, Has anyone tried to use a DVI - DVI cable with one of these displays? On the inside, it appears to have a DVI-D connector, but the vid cable that came with it has a regular D-Sub15 (vga) connector on it. Can I take a DVI-x cable and run it right from a DVI-D on a Geforce4 TI 4200 Card to...

would just like to share, I have discovered the .zip password for this disc. (let a .zip password cracker chew on the files for several days before i gave that route up) after trying lots of permutaions, i just decided to try all the numbers in the filename, omitting the 'b' at the end. with the...

I am looking at a non-working Presario 1200 for a friend. A green light is lit when power is conected (from the brick), but nothing else works - it cannot be turned on. Maybe a fuse, maybe a bad power-on switch.. or something else. So I got myself a Torx 8 screwdriver and undid the 6 screws I...

Hi all, I've got a compaq Armada 1580DMT from my mate recently. But the power lead is missing. Is anyone know what's the DC spec of the input. or can you tell me the equilavent lead that's current on the market. I can see from the back of the laptop, it's a 3-pin type socket. Thanks very much. Od

Keith wrote: I am currently setting up a Compaq deskpro 1000 for a non-profit and the video card that is installed is displayed as a PCI VGA card by windows hardware set up, however it has s-video and a TV-out connector. Does anyone know what type of video card is installed in the Compaq...

Bought my 1st Compaq - a SR1210NX. Should be adequate for email and light surfing. However, I seem to have 2 problems. Took one back and had Circuit City give me another - same model. Same problem. I can not imagine I was given 2 PCs with the same flaws. Sooooo, the problem may be mine. Here...

My laptop is a Compaq Presario 1700 17XL 461 model and originally has 128MB (64MB * 2 slots) on it. I was trying to upgrade memory and put 256MB memory on one slot. But the system would not boot and gave the message saying, "Invalid memory type, Serial Presence Detect, Invalid checksum, System...

"jmpimaster2000" wrote in message ... Is anyone else getting this ERROR? Just started this afternoon. Remote Procedure Call (RPC) NT Authority\System I am using WinXP Pro.