I received a new in box HP 286776-B22 unit whose internal drive was marked as spare 404714-001. I can't find any technical documentation that shows what option numbers are sold using that spare number, and this is not the spare I have seen used for this option number in the past. Does...

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

We use the APC Symmetra UPS in our server room and lab, and I like it a lot. It has hotswap battery modules that you can just plug and play. You don't disconnect wires and you don't issue any commands to put the system in some special mode. The system autodetects both removal and insertion. ...

Is there any way to force drives that are inserted into a 4214R drive array to autostart? Apparently the host is sending the start unit to these drives by default. I have an application exposing drives through fibre channel where the start unit is not sent by the host, and I need the drive to...

Of most interest to me right now is where do I find the USB drivers for the DL585. I download and tried the AMD OPTera 8000 series chipset drivers, but the PCI hotplug driver from that install hangs the system and corrupts Windows 2000 to boot (blue screen on reboot). If anyone has tips on what...

What is the cheapest Dell or Compaq server that fits these requirements: 1) 2U or 3U rackmount configuration 2) At least six hotswap drive bays 3) 64 Bit CPU capable of running Windows 2003 4) Can take a minimum of 12 GB of memory

Does HP finally make a small desktop or portable enclosure for one to four hotswap SAS or SATA drives (2.5 or 3.5 inch)? I want a way we can have our hotswap HP SATA and SAS drives be used in portable SAS / SATA enclosures for transferring data between computers. -- Will

Does anyone have the HP spare number for the filler blank that goes into the MSA 60 storage enclosure? HP support gave me 389015-001, but when I order this I get something totally incorrect for the MSA 60...wrong size wrong style, not hotswappable. I downloaded the MSA 60 maintenance manual,...

I'm looking for a storage consultant in the South San Francisco Bay Area to do occasional short jobs testing storage arrays, bringing them up to latest firmware, etc. I'm very flexible on hours, and this could even be done by someone with a regular job during off hours. Time would not exceed...

I replaced a hard drive for a friend in his Compaq Presario 5000 and it would not allow me to use the recovery CD. I believe this is due to the hidden file that compaq installs on its hard drives. I got around this by just imaging the hard drive onto the new one. Now, the guy got a virus that...

If anyone is interested in a used 6.4gb Toshiba MK6411MAT with a caddy to fit a Prosignia 160 or Armada 1700 plus others.. Contact: I am interested in packaging & shipping charges plus whatever you think it is worth??? Willard

Have you tried: http://h71025.www7.hp.com/support/reference_library/viewdocument.asp?countrycode=1000&prodid=817&source=316314-001.xml&dt=13&docid=12916 Willard Reg Ronaldson wrote: This is the only newsgroup I can find on Compaq products so I hope someone can answer my questions. If not...

I just got a Presario 2100 that I needed in a hurry. As a result I bought it from a chain store and it came standard with Winblows XP. I tried to load Windows 2000 professional which I legally own a copy of and prefer to use. When I re-booted after the OS load 4 drivers for the system were missing...

The CD-Rom on my sons compaq w/XP home stopped working. He recently decided to get DSL only to discover that the CD does not work so he can't use the disk from Qwest. We tried several things last night but I discovered so many problems that we did a system restore. Do we need to let everything...

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,...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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?...