I'm getting ready to upgrade the memory in a Presario 5660 from 128 to 384. The system hasn't been formatted since it was purchased in December 1998. The system has Win98 on it now, but I will be upgrading it to XP. I will upgrade the BIOS, then format everything. I've formatted quite a few...

I replaced my M700's battery after it died and the new one charges up to 100% but will not power the laptop, and sometimes I have to remove the new battery to start the laptop. Battery has same part number as the old one but doesn't have a tiny strip in the opposite corner as the...

I have an older Deskpro SFF system. Model #ENS/P600/13b/9/64c. It uses the Intel 810e chipset. BIOS ROM is 686J1 v2.10. I'm wondering what is the largest hard drive it can use? Currently it has a Seagate 13GB HD. Is it subject to the 32GB limit? Does anyone know? Thanks much. Patty

i have a presario 1245 it boots intermittantly and wont recognize hd or cd. both spin up but fdisk wont locate and cant boot from linux cd either. i suspect bios error on ide . any ideas

Can some one who perhaps has this board tell me what kind of information this brad can provide me with. I am thinking about installing one into my Proliant 5500. Does it provide info about temperature, array status and things of that nature? Thank you, - Bogdan

Hello, I have a COMPAQ Presario 5640 that I want to install a bigger Harddrive into. The original one is ONLY 8 GB. I went to the computerstore the other day and they claimed that I could ONLY have a HD which would be MAX 32 GB in it. Is this true or can I have larger ? I am thinking about buying...

On my Compaq Deskpro, Microsoft XP has become unstable 3 times now. Keyboard and mouse become so sluggish that the only way I can shutdown is by pulling the plug, and a high-pitch whine is emitted. The event viewer found that it was an ACPI_ERR_AMLI_ILLEGAL_IO_READ_FATAL error, as found in this MS...

I am adding a 20G Maxtor drive to a 4824 (rev A). I have installed it, the bios recognizes it, but the machine won't boot. (It is booting from the original hard drive. The machine gives the Compaq splash screen, then says "OS Loading", then hangs.) The old drive is set as the master, the new drive...

anyone know a good source for cheap RAM. I am looking for 2each 128M sticks, P/N 323013-001. for my old 5700T which I am rebuilding/upgrading.

Occasionally I have a problem logging onto a user profile when I have just logged out of another profile. The system will either freeze on the login screen, or will bring up the background but no icons. I have to turn the computer off and back on. It only happens when I am logging off 1 profile...

Hi all, Newbie to this forum and I need help with a confusing problem. I have just converted a P3 1 Gig EN Sff with a tv out card for use as a media pc. I have bought an Acer Airkey IR wireless keyboard for it. With the keyboard and mouse connectors plugged in (both go to the IR box) the PC...

When this computer boots into windows, it gives an error saying 'vxdmgr32.exe' could not be found in C:/windows/system32 so all I'm wondering is where to start with an issue like this. That exe doesn't even exist on the hard drive anywhere. If you can think of any more info I've left out, let me...

I have a Presario 1200-xl111 notebook and need to know the correct way to remove my dying hard drive and replace it with a new hard drive. How do I remove the hard drive? Need instructions. CHEERS!!

Gday All I am about to buy a Compaq Evo N160. I am just curious to know if there are any known problems with this model ?? Thanks for all your Help Mucko

Hello Everybody! I want to upgrade the TFT display of my laptop (currently 1024x768) to something like 1400x1200 or 1600x1400. I don't want to ask compaq for the part, as it is too expensive, but, does anybody know who manufactures the compaq display and if I can buy a compatible / straight from...

Hi All The Screen Light On My ipaq 3870 Will Not Brighten Any Info Please Regards JB

Hello Would anyone know if the Compaq Armada 7400 notebook can handle 2 X 256 MB Ram sticks? Having trouble getting it to recognise this configuration. -- Echy

Six years ago neighbors bought a Presario at Radio Shack. They have lost modems and surge protectors and ignored my advice to bond their power and telephone grounding rods. Two weeks ago a nearby lightning strike wiped out everything tied to their phone line, including their PC. After it's...

School I work for has some Deskpro 2000s donated. In one that had W95, I reformatted the the hard drive and put W98 on it. Couplee of things. 1) I get this line across the screen. Shall I assume that the video card may be on its way out? 2) After installing the Ethernet Controller I can get...

Hi, Trying to install RH 8 on Presario with DVD and CD/ROM, 256M memory and standard graphics card, 30G drive. (W95 is sharing the space - partitioned with Partition Magic successfully). I load the bootable CD into the DVD drive. Install starts, asks which mode (I choose text) then it seems to...