My compaq Presario 2175US came with the 60 day free trial of Nortons 2003. What is best, subscribe after the 60 days or buy a boxed version.

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i have a compaq presario 1277 notebook and it wont trun on. when i plug it in, the green light in the front of it comes on, but that is it. the battery light does not and when i press the power button, nothing happens. can anyone help me??!!! PLEASE!!! blake haley

I have a Presario 1525US and I just got a second battery, basically because the battery is so bad when you are using it without ac power, I only get like 1:15 to 1:30 hours of use from a single battery before I have to recharge again. So when I switch battery's after one is drained, do I have to...

I was given an old Presario 1245 notebook with dual scan. I gave it to my daughter. She seems happy, but the battery is completely gone. I can get a million hits for companies that make replacement batteries, no problem. But, any objective answers for perhaps a 2nd hand one that ~will~ hold...

Anyone else have problems with A compaq notebook with lid cracking near the hinges? under normal usage?

Good day, I want to install Win ME on this machine for a friend of mine and found, I think, all the drivers I need (inf, sound, video). The last thing is the 15.4 " WXGA screen which I cannot find any driver for and which I don't know if it will be supported by ME or not. Any help would be greatly...

I'm looking for a notebook with a 17" widescreen monitor that has its hard drive available as a plug-in module that is easily removed and replaced. We want to have three separate boot devices: for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, and it's very important that we be able to quickly switch...

Okay, I have this Compaq notebook 800, it just wont start! I dont remember doing anything to it. any help, appreciated thanks felicity

I am using a preinstalled XP Home on my Compaq Presario 5000. I found out that Ntbackup is not installed, but is available on the XP Home CD. Unfortunately, Compaq only provided a recovery CD, no system CD. It's not on there. I searched C and D on my HD and it's not there either. Anyone know of...

I'm new to laptops so please bear with me a moment. I want to buy a new computer so I can install Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server on it. I'm getting ready for MS Certification and I need to setup a study lab. I would like to have a laptop for mobility and entertainment purposes. Here's my...

My daughter has a NX6110 laptop. There are two issues with it. 1). It can be grindingly slow especially at start-up. Is this because it's a celeron processor? I've only ever really had full blown P4 or Athlons so don't really have a means of comparison. 2). It periodically keeps "freezing" in...

Hi, I just receive my wonderfull HP Nx7000 706A (XP Pro) with the DVD+RW drive witch is a SONY DW-P50A. Every thing goes perfectly : CD read CD-R (burn OK) CD-RW (RW OK)

hi all, has anyone ever upgraded a presario 5000 from me to xp professional that can give me some pointer to make it go smoothly. from what i have read so far, it appears to not go very smoothly at all. the system has the following equipment installed. - amd athlon 1.1 ghz processor - compaq...

Yes they were correct. I'll just save the money for a new comp! -- Lupuss

Well turned out the upgrade didn't work. :-/ The comp wouldn't start up with the new Processor. Blasted compaqs and their no upgrades policy -- Lupuss

Thanks a lot, that was just the answers I was looking for :) I've found a 500Mhz PIII, I'll get it this afternoon. Again thank you -- Lupuss -- Lupuss

Thank you very much! but are you sure the motherboard can support a PIII? -- Lupuss

Hello, I've got an old Compaq Deskpro, with a Pentium2 (Slot 1) @ 350Mhz, the motherboard is a Compaq 041ch (it's the Ep 6350 Serie). I'd like to overclock it, but I don't really kow how. I tchanged the jumpers (the ones marked "processor speed") so it shoul go @ 450 Mhz but apparently that doesn't...

Having an odd issue on a Compaq EVO 500 SFF System seems to think it is part of a network with some form of user/group policy restrictions applied. Running Windows XP Home Owner is not a tinkerer and has no idea how any restrictions could have been applied to her PC. Owner only noticed...