I am trying to upgrade a HP pavillion a400y. Spec says it can take PC2700 up to 2GB with max of 1GB per slot. Right now i have 256MB installed PC2700 DDR. When i look in the bios it says installed memory 256MB/PC2100, mem bank 1 n/a mem bank 2 250MB/DDR When i add the 1GB DDR PC2700 the memory...

Lots of restore disks are avaiable from HP, but this www site seems to good to be true... Has anyone used them? www.restoredisks.com/index.asp JR

Have you tried: http://h71025.www7.hp.com/support/reference_library/viewdocument.asp?countrycode=1000&prodid=817&source=316314-001.xml&dt=13&docid=12916 Willard Reg Ronaldson wrote: This is the only newsgroup I can find on Compaq products so I hope someone can answer my questions. If not...

Are you still looking for batteries of IBM laptop? Are you still confused for where to buy a good IBM thinkpad batteries?If you say yes, just listen to me. My friend Bell bought a battery of ibm thinkpad 600e from http://www.ibm-laptop-batteries.co.uk ,a online store for ibm laptop.He told me it...

I have a Presario 5116EA that will not restore from the recovery disk. The OS is ME and is totally screwed, lots of blue screens of death, freezes up etc. I did swap the hard drive and loaded W2K and the PC behaves normally so no hardware problems. I have swapped back the hard...

Does anyone know if the print drivers file (SP10490.exe) from Compaq that works on Windows 98 also works on Windows XP? The Compaq IJ200 is suppose to be a rebadged Lexmark 1000/1100 ink jet printer and I do have the print drivers (CJ201100SE.EXE) for the Lexmark 1000/1100 ink jet which are...

Just inherited one of these, little box that can charge 2 batteries at once. Problem is, the orange charge lights don't stay on, they give some sort of code which I don't know the meaning of Battery 1 (known to hold a charge and last more than an hour) orange light stays on for a few minutes,...

I'm looking for a new laptop - probably used for a year or two - I need something with a longer battery life than 2 hrs, and also retains it's charge while sitting on the shelf - I've found the various Toshiba laptops we have loose their charge just sitting around - Any specific models to look...

Picked up a nice little 733MHz Compaq Deskpro small form factor box at a corporate yardsale recently. Original specs of 128MB, 10GB, 48x CD, Win 2000 Pro. Upgraded to 256MB. Nice computer. Opened up the chassis and saw a Western Digital WD400BB disk drive in it. Looked up the specs at the WD...

Help, I have a Compaq LTE5300 laptop with a screen problem. A white line has started in the middle of the screen. It started out about a 1/8 inch and is now about 3/8 inch. I didn't drop it or hit it. Is the screen no good or could it be a system problem ? I have a second question I have...

"Quaoar" wrote in message ... name wrote: "Quaoar" wrote in message news:Tc%Ha.1030582$Zo.236065@sccrnsc03... name wrote: Hello. On a compaq deskpro p800 running...

Hello, I would really appreciate your help. I have a Compaq Portable II (286 CPU) that I was given, working state unknown. When I plug it in and switch it on I hear a beeping noise and only the floppy drive light blinks on and off. The hard disk doesn't spin up, no monitor, or lights on kb About a...

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:09:23 -0500, admin wrote: http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=compaq * * * I find that mepis7, and Puppy Linux have save a lot of older systems, that have passed throught this space... I like the Mepis rolling update KDE linux, that is quite different than Ubuntu's make...

Hi, I tried to find the CPUs the subject PC would support on the COMPAQ site. They played HIDE better than I played SEEK. Can anyone provide this info or a link to the page where its located? Thank You, in advance, for any help.

I recently bought some eBay RAM from someone with a good rep there, 100%. I've had the chip in for about 10 days and I thought everything was fine. It seems to show up, i.e from when I first put it in and the BIOS amended itself. And it shows up as having gone from 256 mb to 512 when I look at...

** New info noted below Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1

Having a bit of a problem. PC won't POST and I get 1 long, 2 short beeps. According to this web site http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/compaqbeep.htm it's a video problem. However, when I drop in a PCI vid card and connect monitor to it I get 1 short, 2 long beeps which is, supposedly, a...

Hey People, I need help for a compaq 4409CL pc. It's running Win Xp home edition. I can get to the Desktop but there is no taskbar, no icons nothing except the wallpaper. I cannot right click on the desktop. I have tried the restore CD nothing happens. the only way to get to anything is by doing a...

Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1 For Compaq...

I have a Compaq 5430US running Windows XP and I'm having problems with my Multimedia USB Keyboard model# KUS0060 with smart card reader. I had to rig the keyboard to work and I'm wondering if it will give me problems down the road. Here's the story. My main hard drive failed so I bought a new...