I have this system with a Duron 900, 512MB RAM, and a BFG Ti4200. I want to put an Athlon XP 1800+ that I have in it, but I am not sure if it will work in this board or not, and Compaq's site doesn't list voltages for the chipset, or what possible upgrades it will take. I can live if it doesn't...

My sis has one of these boxes, and she asked me to take it home and clean it up - spyware, adware, all the nasty stuff that four kids and limewire can bring home. She thought she was doing me a favor by disconnecting everything before I got there, and she didn't realize that there were two...

Hi The fan is running a little too often for my liking so I guess it needs the dust cleaning out of it. Anybody got any info on how to strip the notebook down to get at the fan? Thanks Ian

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...

How many MHZ is the processor? How much RAM can it hold?

I'm trying to help a neighbor get his Compaq Presario 5151 running. Will someone please tell me how to get into the setup screen. This is the first Compaq computer that I've tried working on. On most computers that I've worked on, hitting the F8 key or Del key on boot-up will get me into the...

Can anyone tell me if the 5184 came with Windows 98 or Windows 98SE. Thanks, JOhn

Hello All, I have a Compaq Presario 5184 AMD K62 380 with 128 megs ram I would like to do a clean/fresh install of Windows XP Professional. The problem is this system is not bootable via CDrom or floppy but will only boot with the restore disk. I have checked the BIOS as well. Anyone know where I...

I acquired an old Presario 5184 recently. It had Win2000 installed on it. The OS has become corrupt and I'm trying to install Win98 on it, after repartitioning and reformatting the HD to get rid of all the old stuff. I'm seeing a couple of messages during boot-up that make me think there is...

How do I disable onboard video for a Presario 5184?

Hello everyone. I had a friend who wanting me to format his computer and reinstall his Win OS. I did and now I can't get the sound to work. There is no yellow or red sign in front of the sound in device Manger. If you go into the sounds and audio device the volume control pointer move all the way...

I have just accquired a Presario 5220 running XP. The computer runs well,but it has a few small problems. It has the original motherboard with onboard sound etc. The only add on is a network card that seems to work ok It also has just a plain monitor The problems a 1 It won't shut down...

Has anyone got a mainboards with or without nic for sale, i am in the UK. Regards Graham

My friend needs to upgrade his Presario 5221 memory. He already has 64MB in his computer. Is it possible to insert a 128 MB module without problems or should he use the remaining slots for 2 x 64MB modules? Thanks in advance. Frank

I have Compaq Presario 5221. My windows detects and installs sound drivers just fine, but windows doesn't find sound device. Can anyone help me, please. Thanks for any help.

I have a Compaq Presario 5225 with Windows 98, 320 MB of RAM and an AMD-K6-2 533 MHz processor. It has built-in AGP graphics on the motherboard. It has two PCI slots, one of which has a 56K modem and the other which has an Ethernet card for connecting my cable modem. I attempted to do a cheap...

Hi, I got a compaq presario 5240 and i want to make a clean installation of Xp on it. Anybody who can tell me how the enter the Bios, so i can set the dvd player as first boot device, and format the whole hd ? Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, having trouble defraging.....computer will only complete 1 to 2 % defrag....will never finish.... system: presario 5240, 18 gig, 96 ram (upgrading soon), win 98, amd processer. Any suggestions?

Hi- does anyone know what is the highest performing AMD CPU that this M/B can accomodate? AMD700/200 installed from factory and I was looking to upgrade to 1.4Ghz Thanks

Hi- does anyone know what is the highest performing AMD CPU that this M/B can accomodate? AMD700/200 installed from factory and I was looking to upgrade to 1.4Ghz Thanks