I've been having ongoing problems with the power plug on my Compaq Presario 2100. Now the battery's dead. Does anyone know if there's an external battery charger you can buy for the 2100? Thanks!

I've been having ongoing problems with the power plug on my Compaq Presario 2100. Now the battery's dead. Does anyone know if there's an external battery charger you can buy for the 2100? Thanks!

When trying to start it, on battery or AC, the blue power on light on the button blinks on and off as does the whirring sound of the fan. Sometimes it does start and eventually freezes up or shuts itself off? I've pulled out each of the memory modules (2 256 modules) one at a time and even switched...

I had a disk read error on my Presario 2108US running XP Home and had to reformat and reinstall the OS. It now will boot and run fine but it takes 25 minutes to boot. I'm serious, literally 25 minutes to boot. Once booted it seems to run fine, not slow, connects to the Internet, etc. I looked in...

Very disappointed in Compaqs Presario 2110 (US). Is it me or is this perhaps the most problematic laptop ever released by Compaq? Some problems we have had with this notebook a Bios can't be upgraded because unit is shipped with no floppy bay, mouse is erratic, battery won't hold a charge,...

I have a Presario 2110ca notebook and need to update the bios. When I try to update them I get an error message: "This BIOS is not for your notebook pc." I have tried bios updates for most 2100-2110 notebooks but all say the same error message. My notebook says Presario 2100 on it but has a...

I purchased this laptop last May. I soon discovered that the laptop seems to produce a lot of interference limiting the effecting receive/transmit range of the 802.11b mini-PCI card. I literally can't be more than 40-60 feet from an access point if I don't have a straigh line of sight to the...

Just bought a new Compaq Presario 2172 Ahtlon that is advertised as 2500+ and is supposed to go at 1.87 GHz. When I go into System Information, it says 519 MHz. Why is that happeneing and what can I do about it. I have had the machine about a week. -- Nate Rosenthal

I have a Linksys 802.1B wireless router and a cable modem. It works fine because I have two other notebooks at home with PC Card Wireless that works fine. My wife's new Presario is not working quite right. I have the button pushed and have set up the connection and enabled TCP/IP. But I can't...

Hi, Anybody got Presario 2197 (which has USB 1.1 built in) working with a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card? I tried three different cards but can only get a speed of a couple of times of USB 1.1. Even worse is that an external hard drive (AcomData) can't be even recognized by any of the cards and the laptop...

Hi, I have a Presario 2197CA and equipped originnally with 2X 256MB pc2700 cl 2.5 ram. I thought I could get a 1.3GB ram laptop buy replcaing one of the ram with a new 1gb chip. Now I just bought a 1G DDR333 pc2100 cl2.5 ram chip and the bios won't recognize the new ram at all. I thought the new...

I have a presario 2200 laptop, 2months old, it will after being off a night reset the time to 12 am jan 1 2004. does this unit have a cmos battery or is the time onboard a chip. it certainly is too soon for a battery to fail. any other reasons for such a failure, the battery is kept...

Suddenly my Compaq Presario 2200 laptop has developed a "2 1/2 inch opaque white band running vertically from top to bottom of the screen. Against a white background it's barely visible but it's very apparent against any colored background. Anyone familiar with this problem? I'd welcome any...

Hi, I have three questions about a presario 2210, hope somebody can give some help. 1. At the moment my display runs on " high colour, 16 bits ". Is this the highest quality possible for the videocard on the motherboard? (or do i have to look for a better driver?)

I just inherited a Presario 2240 from a friend who knows absolutely nothing about computers, so I can't ask them this question. (They got a new system - Dell Pentium 4 with 512 megs - what an upgrade!) I know nothing about Compaqs, and couldn't find an answer to this question on the Net. I see 1...

I am working on a presario 2246 win 95. It doesnt see the CD-rom. I checked the device manager and noticed that the intel 82731 ide controller had an exclamation point. I tried updating the drivers. All that did was add multiple instances of it. None correctly. I decided to just slave the CD... It...

Can anyone supply me with the jumpers to upgrade the CPU on an old Compaq Presario 2266? I cannot find what jumpers to use to upgrade FSB and Voltage. Anyone know max cpu this presario can take? I would like to add an AMD K6-2 if possible. -- ----------------------------------------------

I recently had a Presario 2297 follow me home. It's kind of a cute thing and makes an excellent 'smart typewriter'. Now that I've sorted out the modem issue, it's a handy backup for 'net work. My question is - how do you make it recognize more than 64 meg of memory? Thanks, John...

When I turn off the AC adapter to my Presario 2500 the display goes slightly dimmer. Anyone know how to stop this happening? -- Paul Charlton www.paulcharlton.org.uk

A friend has this Laptop which needs to be cleaned of all the junk that she has accumulated over the years and (screwed up!). Does the Restoration CD allow a clean format of the HD and re-installation of the system & drivers? I have tried to search the Net for info on the process but no...