I have a Compaq nx6115 laptop. When I press the power button, the fan whirs for about a second, and the hard drive access light comes on. Then it cuts out (fan shuts down) and then this is repeated about fifteen times. Eventually it stops doing this and the fan stays on, but no hard drive...

(Chris Simeone) wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me the correct Power Supply pinouts for a Compaq Presario 5204. J15 on the mainboard is a 6-pin connector. J12 on the mainboard is a 12-pin connector. The power...

Keith wrote: I am currently setting up a Compaq deskpro 1000 for a non-profit and the video card that is installed is displayed as a PCI VGA card by windows hardware set up, however it has s-video and a TV-out connector. Does anyone know what type of video card is installed in the Compaq...

I have been having problems with my desktop a Presario 54200nx refusing to shut down for about 6 months now.... And yesterday and again today my laptop (Presario 2900us) also refused to shut down... BOTH will hibrinate or go on standby.... but will not shut down... Going into DOS ... and typing...

Sirs, i have an Armada 7790 dmt that i put windows Xp on and after witch i find thats its not a supported system, So I will have to use windows 2000 pro or 98 How do I install either Operating sys.with Xp Installed already. And what kind of modem was used in this Computer?I mean the Make of...

After upgrading my Compaq Armada 1700 to Windows Xp the sound card does not work and downloading drivers does not help. I can't even get into the Bios to change the plug and play settings. What can I do? Compaq Armada 1700 6300/T/5000/D/M/3 160 Mb RAM 40 Gb HHD

Hi, I'm an user o old laptop Armada 1592 DT. It's OK for the things I do (Word,Excel etc.) but I've lately thought about uprading its memory and HDD so I've got some questions: 1. What it's the biggest supported HDD by this model (now it's 3,4 GB)? 2. Is the hdd upgrading proccess very difficult?

I have a drive which is not original to a compaq. I put the drive into a Presario 5000 series (circa autumn 2000). The sound is onboard. The chip is Via AC'97. I took the directory c:\cpqdrv from a running compaq hd, with working sound, and copied it to the new drive. I tried to use the inf file...

can anyone advise me on how to buy ram from ebay .. There's getting to be all kind of different types IE. SIMMS DIMMS SDRAM and I'm a bit in the dark in terms of things like bus speed downward compatability. Can I buy a higher bus speed thtn I need so that I can use it in a machine I might...

Had this problem, and saw I wasn't the first. "My M700 no longer powers up, with or without the battery. The battery led flashes 8 times and then the system switches off. The power led does not come on at all. Even with the laptop closed (ie screen down) and the AC plugged in with no battery...

My son has an old computer, a Compaq Presario 4716. We are going to upgrade the memory and also need to upgrade for the games he plays. I have read that many have problems with new cards with this particular model, or updating old Compaq computers in general. Can someone point me in the right...

I've got two sticks of 128 MB ram and have room for one more. If I add a stick of 256 MB, does the order in which the three sticks are installed make any difference? Can I just put the 256 stick in the third slot or must I put it in the first slot and move a 128 stick to the third slot? Compaq...

I currently have Window Media Player 9 installed on my computer. No matter what I try it will not open up tho. So, can I just go to the Microsoft website and download Windows Media Player 9 again? Or do I need to uninstall media player 9 first? When I go to the install/uninstall program I...

I have a Compaq Armada 7800. With the power cord connected the laptop runs fine and power management reports only 3% of the battery is full and that it is still charging when in fact its not. I have a new battery and external charger so I know the battery is good and fully charged, also the...

I have a Presario 5834 which was given to me free by a friend who no longer had use for it. I am having problems with the CD burner making coasters. The system came with system restore disks that load the factory installed software. These disks install the CeQuadrat program for creating...

The RA4000 and RA4100 fibre array software warns you that you cannot expand drives when they run under Windows 2000. What is the observed behavior for such cases? I tried to do it with a small sample NTFS volume I created, and it worked without any problems at all. -- Will Internet: westes at...

Could someone tell me which motherboard Compaq 5BW160 has? Would it be possible to change the BIOS to one provided by the motherboard manufacturer instead of using the Compaq's BIOS? Thank you!

I have a compaq armada 3500. I would like to go to the BIOS Settings. But clicking F10, Del or other keys doesn't work. Can someone help me? Thanks.

I just bought a used 7800. I have 2 questions: 1.There are 2 volume control keys above the power switch on the chassis. How are they controlled? Is it software? I cannot find software on the HP/Compaq site that controls them, and they do not appear to adjust the volume. 2. It has an internal...

No,it all depends on the processor and equipment installed,though most seem terribly underpowered.My 5423US is a Pentium 4 model,and only has a 235 watt psu,barely enough to do the job.Since most decent graphics cards require at least 300 watts these days,you'll probably need a bigger...