I'm looking for parts for a Compaq Presario 4824 does anybody know a site were I can purchase parts for this particular computer... Titus Francoeur

Anyone who can share an ISO image of the QuickRestore CD for a Presario 5838? Can't find me CD... //Hans

Hi, I have just bought a UK Armada 7800 laptop off of ebay, but it has no power supply. I don't know what power supply to get. I've been on HP's website to find the part number (314957-031) but i don't know if this will work because most UK laptop power supplies have step down transformers on them...

I have a Compaq 5080US which is just sitting at the red logo splash screen. When it powers up the keyboard lights come on for a second and the floppy lights up for a second but it does not appear to try to boot from the floppy nor the hard drive. Pressing F1, F10, CTRL-ALT-DELETE...

If both the oboard and ATI graphics are AGP, only one can be recognized. If the onboard is AGP, the card will have to be PCI. HH wrote in message ... I want to connect one to the integrated graphics and another to a...

I have an old Armada 1750 ( which was given to me) and I would like to set it up as a wireless laptop via internet connection with the Westell 327W. Knowing a whole lot more about desktops, I have no idea what it is that I need for this laptop to produce a wireless connection. I have 2 cards:...

I'm trying to install an ethernet card in my 12XL212 but it will not recognise it? This is the second card it won't recognise, it wouldn't recognise one for my Minolta scanner. I don't have any other cards to try. Is this a common problem and is there a fix? Alan

I have a compaq presario 5710 (for quite some years). I had the following problem when using the Restore CDs to do a full restore back to manufacturer's original. Factory 002 48829kB Write error. Possibly out of disk space. Abort, Retry Ignore. Both Retry and Ignore will not work.

Hi, Can you please tell me if there is a key combination to get out of sleep mode or where I can download a copy of the user guide for a compaq presario SR1000. My colleagues machine appears to be permanently locked in sleep/hibernate mode. At switch on the moving "going to sleep" banner...

I have a Compaq Presario 900 with Toshiba DVD/CDRW SD-R2312. I can't make it boot a multisession bootable CD. Anybody know a workaround for this? Let me try to head off the obvious: It boots a single session bootable CDRW just fine. When I write the second session, it complains, but can be...

I have a Compaq 5140, running Windows 98 Standard Edition. When I open Solitaire, I receive an error stating the program has performed an illegal operation.... I have tried the microsoft support suggestions but the symptoms they describe are not exactly the same errors that I get. So no luck...

Does anyone have an idea what could cause a compaq presario 730us to hang up on the restart process everytime? I can go to the shutdown process and it will shut down properly and when I turn it on it will boot up just fine. It only happens when I hit restart. I am very preplexed with this...

Hi, I've a Presario 1200XL with a 566 mhz Celeron chip in a 370 socket. I am interested in upgrading the CPU. From browsing the group it sounds like the bios should recognise a P3, but before I get too carried away how fast can I go with Pentium or Celeron CPUs in the existing 566mhz set-up before...

I've just recently been afflicted with a problem concerning the Compaq FS740 model. I'm as surprised as can be when it happened, as I have no idea how it occurred. I was browsing the internet when the screen just suddenly changed the magnitude of its concavity (the screen took on a concave shape,...

I am looking to get another 512 MB RAM Chip to add to my Compaq 6470nx (2.6 ghz, winXP home). I can get the chip for $120 or less through vendors like Best Buy, CDW, or CompUSA but the HPshopping.com website sells the chip for $160. The HP site says their RAM comes with specific instructions for...

Hello! I have a Deskpro 4000 (rather old, Pentium 166MMX, 128 MB) which I use as a file server and firewall. It works quite find, the only thing disturbing me were the fans. I replaced the CPU-fan successfully with a passive cooler and I use a very, very silent Seagate harddrive. The only noise...

Can someone tell me what type of RAM I have. I want to upgrade.

Original drive has gone south. When looking for a replacement drive, I wonder of the size limitation of the BIOS . Would anyone have an answer, or a pointer in the right direction? Any suggestions? TIA

Compaq PIII 0.8MHz W98SE I am trying to help a Deskpro-owner friend with a sound problem using SFC's EXTRACT ONE FILE FROM THE INSTALLATION DISK and don't quite know which CAB to point to in the C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\???.CAB path. Apparently, the now-removed W95.Hybris.gen1 was behind...

How the hell do I get into BIOS Setup on a Presario 4712 to change boot order? Tried F1 & F10 and got message saying "no diagnostics partition". Original HD failed so replaced and need to install Win98 from CD. Compaq/HP site no help at all. Googled, but no joy. Thanks for any help! -- Be...