I was given a Compaq D500 desktop as a gift. I want to upgrade the OS from Win2000 to Win XP pro or Home Ed. I do not have any of the original disks that came with the machine. Can it be done easily? Can anyone give me any pointers on how to do it on this machine? I am going to try to load the XP...

Hi All, I have a Compaq Deskpro EN, it's a 1GHz machine but I would like to make it faster. Are there any comments regarding worthwhile CPU upgrades or perhaps overclocking? I notice that when I am doing processor intensive operations, i periodically get CPU over temperture alarms which suggests...

I have been here before and already got some hints regarding and old Compaq Presario CDTV 528 (all in one piece model). I don't really want to sink more money than the price for a LAN card into it... Would it be possible to use the machine as a dedicated computer to run a P2P software like Emule or...

I know the video is on the motherboard, but can I upgrade it by adding a PCI (or some other kind of) video card? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.556 / Virus Database: 348 - Release Date: 12/26/2003

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Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1200 XL110 with standard 6.4GB hard drive that needs replacement due to increasing bad sectors. Is there a relatively painless way to upgrade this notebook to a 20 or 40GB HDD? Any help and info is appreciated. Thanks. Nick BIOS: PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.

I was looking at the www.compaq.com website for a SoundMax driver for a COMPAQ Deskpro sb series, P733, i815. The only sound driver that appears for that model is a Windows 2000 DOS driver and I need a W98 driver. The W2000 driver doesn't work, and I've tried a number of soundmax drivers for...

One of the nice features of the 4000 series fibre channel arrays was that you could get away with using generic hotswap SCSI drives in the arrays, as long as you had Compaq trays for them. Do the newer SATA RAID arrays have the ability to use generic SATA drives in Compaq hotswap trays? -- Will

Ever since I installed WINXP on my EVO D510CMT I can no longer get into the BIOS. Pressing F10 when the Compaq splash screen and prompts appear doesn't do anything anymore. Then, Windows kicks in as normal. I've tried various things - even disconnecting the hard drive to prevent an OS starting -...

I hope someone can help me, but I suspect this unit is beyond it. My nephew has an Armada M300 that turns on, but reports 1782-Disk Controller Error. I then get something about PXE-6 media-something-failure, although no network cables are conected. Finally, I get the, "Non-System disk or disk...

I have a Deskpro ENC P866 that won't recognize my hard drive anymore. It started when it wouldn't recognize the Memorex DVD R/W drive. It had been working but just quit working. I took everything apart and checked all the cables and connections. Everything looked ok so I put every thing back...

I have a Deskpro ENC P866 that won't recognize my hard drive anymore. It started when it wouldn't recognize the Memorex DVD R/W drive. It had been working but just quit working. I took everything apart and checked all the cables and connections. Everything looked ok so I put every thing back...

We seem to have difficulty in determining if the inserted battery in a Presario XL505 laptop is even charged...or even THERE!! We installed Win XP Pro over the original OS of Win 2000 NT and there's NO 'battery charge' icon located anywhere.... How do we install one?....and WHERE?.. Thx Infnet

Greetings: After many head-banging hours of frustration drilling through hp/compaq's confusing tiers of web pages and searching an ls -alR of ftp.compaq.com I can't find any SSDs. Also ftp searched the 'Net. We desperately need NT 3.51 SSD 1.17 (or at least the uniprocessor HAL 'uphal.dll' and...

this has been a nightmare, I bought this computer at Best Buy, but needed to put XP Pro on it for the simple fact that the box was going to be joining a windows domain, and now I can't find USB drivers for it and I've looked everywhere. So do any of you have any suggestions for me? Thanks in...

Hello Everyone, A co-worker asked me to take a look at at their Presario 1200 because it wasn't booting up anymore. They kept getting a message "Operating System not found". I thought that it was a simple case of the operating system needing to be re-installed. But to my frustration I am still...

I have a compaq deskpro ep/sb series which is a pentium 2 350 and I was wondering how to find out the model number and also I can't get a operating system to load properly, can anyone help thanks

I have a compaq prosignia 320. i had to use the quick restore disk and now the modem doesn't work. There are no installed modems in the control panel-modem properties. i tried installing a generic modem on both com1 and com2 but there is no dialtone when using either port. can someone tell me...

I have a Compaq laptop (R3120US) with a high speed wireless connection. XP says I have an excellent signal and am logged on. When I start IE6, OE6 (for newsgroups), or Outlook2000 that all tell me they can't connect. Any ideas? PS I'm sure this has something to do with it (can't be a...

Hi All: I have a Compact Presario desktop, and I just purchased Nortons anti-spyware 2005. The problem is when I try to install it, a window keeps coming up which says that I still have NIT 2004 still installed and I need to un-install it before I can continue. I have taken out everything which...