A friend's little used 5301RSH suddenly failed to come on at all. Since it would not fire up, the only thing I could check on the power supply is that it had 5 vdc standby voltage. An ohm meter seemed to indicate that front panel switch was not making contact. I figured out which pins to short...

I need to find the motherboard for a Presario 7478. I think its called a camaro motherboard. Any help will be appreciated.

I have a Compaq Presario 1210 laptop. 96 megs of ram, 150 mhz processor, Win95 - works great. However, about a year ago, the PCMCIA card slot stopped working. Cards fit it, but the operating system won't recognize them. I've tried reformatting, putting on Linux, opening up the case and looking...

For the last week or so, a Deskpro EXM/815/P1.0 running Win2K sp4 black screens and shuts down unexpectedly - 100% repeatable - during nightly Ghost 9.0 backup. Starts up again manually in the morning. I ran the Ghost job and babysat it during the daytime to see what happens and it does as...

I have an older box with a type 7 socket cpu running 350mhz in a Compaq presario 5150 desktop. I was told by compaq support that I could upgrade that to a 550mhz AMD-k6-2. What they couldn't tell me was what jumper settings that I would have to change to utilize the new processor. Can somebody...

Hello! I have a problem with installing PCI sound card (chipset CMI 8738). My computer is Compaq Deskpro 2000 (Pentium MMX 200Mhz). I'm sure that the hardware isn't out of order. The computer does not detect the new device. Could anyone help me, please ? Marcin

Hello, This is more of an annoyance problem than anything else. I have a Compaq Presario 2550ca running Windows XP Professional, all the latest drivers from Microsoft and Compaq. After my computer falls asleep, when I wake it up, the wireless icon in the notification area says that I am not...

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I had to replace a hard drive in a freinds pc, it is a compaq 6300us i have all there orginal disk except disk 3. doe's anyone know where i can download a copy of this disk i would greatly appreciate it.

I have a HP Pavillion ze5185 laptop One of the keys has popped off and the white plastic attachment has broke Must i purchase a whole keynoard or are there any sources for keys or other remedies Not my unit so i will survive in any case

I have a Compaq 5430 US with a geforce 4400ti graphics card and tried to upgrade to a geforce 6200 256 AGP. The card and drivers work but I get a 101- Option ROM Checksum Error (Add -in card not working properly) error upon bootup. I have the default 5430US motherboard, and a 250Watt power supply...

Over the last weekend my wife bought at a garage sale a Compaq Prosignia 500 and a NEC monitor and alot more goodies all for $10.00, WOW but now after turning the big beast on what I have on the monitor is "Configuration Nonvolatile Memory Invalid Initialization Aborted" and what follows on the...

http://www.newgen.ca/content/product.taf?ContentID=134 Often the fan gets loud and annoying. Most of the time it is OK, but it is very annoying when it happens. I don't see any way to remove dust from the fan. The fan part appears covered completely in black plastic. Has anyone had luck cleaning...

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...

Anybody managed to get the machine booting without a keyboard attached? I'd like to use this tiny little box for under LINUX for routing and fileserver, but couldn't get around the "no keyboard press F1 to continue" message. I can't find any according switch in the setup, like ordinary machines...

Sorry for the emulation of the subject line of the prior thread, but it's appropriate. My Compaq Presario S4020WM purchased last summer from WalMart came with Windows XP Home and a myriad of unnecessary junk software & processes/services. I've got rid of almost everything unnecessary, but...

I have three desktops, running W2000 (address 192.168.0.1), W98 (DHCP), WXPHome (DHCP), with a 100 Mps link through a dual speed hub (3com). All have subnet 255.255.255.0 and same workgroup name. I cannot connect to this network a notebook Presario 1510EA (WXPHome): no response to ping, no file...

Hi, I have a Presario 80XL4 laptop and it's time to switch out the hard drive. I just got a 40 gig hd but the auto-detect stalls during boot. I thought it might be the BIOS but it turns out the latest update is March 2001 and the laptop already has it. Is there a size limit? The unit comes with...

I did some searching of the 'net and Google and read the FAQ here in the group, but so far have been unable to find any mention of my topic. I have a Compaq Presario 2700T laptop with a 20GB hard drive in it and I'd like to know if it's possible to replace the hard drive with something bigger. ...

I am trying to install Windows 2000 on a 5716. The first thing I tried was booting from Windows 2000 install floppys. When I do this, I get a Disk I/O error. Then, I re-formated the drive, installed CD drivers, and ran the install off of the CD. After copying all of the files, It re-booted and then...