I have a Presario 5452 which I had to reformat. The video driver, on the motherboard, is not right...only gives me 16 color 640x480. What is the right driver/ what is the driver for the motherboard chipset? I can't find the motherboard chip specs. All help appreciated. thanks, mark

Hi ! I would like to know how can i open a compaq presario 725. I've already seen and put off some screws but i don't manage to open my case ! Please help, -- Laurent

OK I was in the process of reformatting my computer with the recovery cd's. I was half way through the first one. Now my cd rom drive is shot. I try to start my computer but its saying operating system not found. What can I do?? I do have a USB cd-rom drive if that's any help. Right now my laptop...

During a boot up(win98)..I received a message O S not found..Bestbuy did a diagnostic check and told me that compaq does not load a full System restore on the single restore disk(oem)..They tell me it is a 2 disk set?? My restore disk when installed comes up in spanish..Says something about...

These are on sale for a pretty good price and would like an opinion. Is it worth it or should I wait for a Dell to go on sale. BTW I need one pretty quick as my desktop has gone TU. Thanks Dave

Needing to upgrade the wife's computer but money is a bit tight. Was looking at the Northgate desktops in Staples. Either the Athlon XP 3000 or 64. Any opinions or experience with them? TIA HC

I've been looking at the presario 2100Z I've read good/bad things about it. System specifics are the AMD Athlon-M 1.87 ghz processor with 512 mb ram,dvd/cdrw, and 30 gb hd and sxga+ video. I went with the ehanced video in lieu of a 40 gb 5400 rpm drive as I'd rather have the better video than...

Buying a new laptop this week - for price and features, the Compaq R3030US (or if I decide I really need a DVD burner, the R3050) seems to have everything I could ask for, at a price I can afford. But how good are they? I've heard some negatives about Compaq, but then again I've heard bad things...

(win98) During boot up i Received a message OS Not found (Compaq 5002us) I had a diagnostic run , and was told My restore disk will not work (comes up in spanish)..I was also told that compaq does not ship a entire restore disk with this comp..That i will need a 2 disk set , Because i have a...

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I have three (3) sets of Compaq Restore CD's . 1st CD: Compaq Deskpro EN and EP series with Intel 810/810a Chipsets. Intel Celeron 500, Pentium III 733 MHz processors and eariler versions. Version 4.4. Requires Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 CD. Part # 138602-005 2nd CD: Compaq CD For Microsoft...

Spoke to one of HPs Road Warriors today. Helped him get set-up for some sales event on the road and what not. He (an reportedly his coworkers) are really happy with their brand new HP laptops. No surprise there, given every sales guy loves a new toy, but the when I asked about the OS, it wasn't...

Not happy with Nero--any other shareware or good but cheap cd burning software out there that anyone could recommend? Making a lot of coasters with Nero--hoping to find something else that works better (either that or I have a mystery problem with my PC and burner. Getting a lot of SCSI/ATAPI...

Sorry for the OT, but this is an odd question at best and I looking to solicit an answer from the best sources I know of. For business reasons, I am looking for an adapter so that a VGA monitor (15 Pin) can be connected to an older PC using EGA Video (9 Pin). Not sure such an item exist, but I...

Recently got over my brand loyalty to Dell and bought a HP Media Center. Looking for HP newsgroups for tips and tricks, but can't seem to find any.

Hi all, Been offered a Presario 1260. Was wondering if it's possible to get the system to use more than 160MB - I know the limit is quoted everywhere on Compaq materials, but was wondering if it's an issue with official support, BIOS reporting (which you can force some OSs to ignore), or a...

I have a Compaq Presario 5700N and am wondering about the possiblities of overclocking this machine. Also it has windows XP installed and will not restart without pulling out the plug or resetting the surge protector. And ideas about this. Thanks DKline

I wrote an earlier message regarding overclocking this machine. Thanks for the suggestions. This machine runs XP very well and since there is no chance of overclocking this is there a way to put a faster Celeron processor in it, would it recognize it and run at the new speed? There doesn't seem...

i bought my laptop about 2 and half years ago and now the problems are starting. It seems that the laptop keeps overheating to the extent that the plug that goes ino the back of it for the power supply has melted please please can someone help me!!!!!

I have a Compaq Armada 7790 dmt notebook laptop ! Where can I find a owners manual for it ? -- This is me!