Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1200 XL110 with standard 6.4GB hard drive that needs replacement due to increasing bad sectors. Is there a relatively painless way to upgrade this notebook to a 20 or 40GB HDD? Any help and info is appreciated. Thanks. Nick BIOS: PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.

A friend has a Compaq Evo desktop computer (circa 2002) that won't boot up. It gives the beep sequence, 1 short, 2 long and also the Num-Lock LED blinks continuously. According to the documentation for this particular computer, these symptoms indicate it's probably something to do with mixing ECC...

I have a Compaq Plus with a floppy and hard drive. I have floppies and dos. I can't seem to get to the hard drive. Is there a special floppy I need to boot with? configuring the bios ? Thanks .

It is a built in phone modem right? If you don't know what kind it is, then the only way to find out is to open up your tower (hopefully not a laptop, those get tricky) and look on the card. Then google for the manufacturer's website and see if they offer the driver online. Good luck!

The office has a Presario 6430NX that refuses to boot up first thing in the morning. A reboot during the day is normal. Compaq Technical Support says the motherboard is about to fail. When I hit the power button the CD drive lights flash, the fans start up and that's it. The power LED stays...

Hello there, I bought a used Evo N800V laptop recently and found a very annoying defect... The screen has got a vertical band where the image is not shown correctly, but "distorted". It doesn't seem to be a problem of dead pixels (and the LCD panel itself doesn't seem to have been hit). The...

A friend has Compaq ME system with a IJ600 printer. The odd thing is that he can print somethings, others time he tries to print the system goes through it Compaq oddities, and nothing happens with the printer. Where should I look???? Thanks, --max

Hi, I have an *old* Compaq LTE 5280 that I'm trying to set up for a friend. Nothing fancy...load up 95 or 98 and get it on the net. (preferably 98 so I don't have to worry about partition size issues) This laptop has interchangeable floppy and CD-ROM drives. I can only have one in at a time....

Is there an easy to see all sofpaqs that have been released pretaining to a ceartin model number?

I've got a Compaq Presario X1007EA and after reinstalling Windows XP HE everything works fine except 4 irritating bugs(?): 1/ When Windows starts, the Taskbar only shows wwhat it feels like showing. It happends (rarely!) that every program/service that starts with Windows shows an icon in the...

We have been going crazy to solve this problem. The machine every once in a while skips its power on password, and goes to the novell login screen. The mouse and keyboard are locked up and the keyboard lights light from left to right in a rotation pattern continuously. We have to shut it down,...

I bought a Compaq Presareo tower computer used and it has Windows ME on it. The problem is it did not come with any of the original disks. Can someone tell me where to get the restore disks? Remove from my email address the no spam. Ted

When I tried to add a spare Maxtor HDD that I have laying around, I got the message "1720 - Hard Drive detects imminent failure" during bootup. I tred to confirm the problem with Maxtor's diagnostic software, Powermax, and it did not find any problems. I also tried switching from primary IDE to...

I have a Evo desktop that appeared to have a blown power supply. I replaced the power supply and now the power led is flashing at a one second interval when turned on. What I can find on the internet points to a bad ROM and one poster had this problem and flashed the BIOS to fix it. I reset the...

I recently had a Presario 2297 follow me home. It's kind of a cute thing and makes an excellent 'smart typewriter'. Now that I've sorted out the modem issue, it's a handy backup for 'net work. My question is - how do you make it recognize more than 64 meg of memory? Thanks, John...

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hello ppl, I have a compaq presario 1245 laptop (pentium2) and I used to be able to enter the euro sign by pressing the ctrl, alt and "5" keys at once, but now it doesn't work anymore. Any ideas on how to solve this or what the prblem might be? I am using windows ME. thanks in advance! E

Currently, all slots filed with 128K sticks. Is this the max or can I use one of those adapters that lets you stack more than one chip in a memory slot?

Hi,have one of these with a smashed glass.The actual display is undamaged.Is it possible to remove/replace the glass? TIA Mick

I have got an old and outdated "Compaq LTE 5100" portable, with Windows 95 PLUS on it. Machine works OK, but when I connect to my printer "HP Deskjet 600" I get nothing out on the printer. When I connect the same printer to an even older "Toshiba" portable I also have, then printing functions as...