I have a Comaq Presario 2195 laptop that has a broken power jack. I went to a computer shop today inquiring as to how much it would cost to replace the broken power jack. The tech told me that they've had bad luck with replacing the power jacks, but that they'd put in a pig tail connector. The...

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...

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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...

I'm having problems upgrading to 48MB. I've tried replacing the 16meg Dimms with a 32megs dimm but only 8 megs of the card is being recognized. The 32 meg dimm is a 4x64-10ns 4 chip SDRAM 168 pin 3.3V unbuffered with eprom. I've pressed F10 at startup to reset the BIOS but it always indicates...

I used to have this program, but threw it away in a fit of housecleaning. I found I needed it again today, and that HP has removed any links or traces of it. Well, after about a half hour of searching, I found it and downloaded it again. It might be prudent to get it and save it if you don't have...

I've installed a fast 7200rpm ATA 133 Maxtor disk in my Compaq Deskpro EP/SB Series, but the transfer is very slow. Will it help tom install a Promise Ultra ATA133 card to speed up the access? Afaik the Compaq Deskpro EP/SB Series is ATA 33. So I am under the impression it should make a...

I had 256MB of DDR PC3200 installed and wanted more. I thought I found a good deal on ebay 2 sticks of 1GB DDR PC3200 made my NCP. Ad stated that it was new. I install either or both of the sticks in either or both of the slots and get a beep and the computer won't start. Online chat with...

"bobG" wrote in message ... I deleted my BIOS in my Compaq Deskpro 4000n 5233MMX. Oops. I know I can live without it, but I'd like to restore the BIOS partition if possible. I've done some searching in groups, and...

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...

The Presario 7PL290 (Presario 7000) has two 9-pin cables with connectors from the front of the case. The computer has a firewire card with a keyed 9-pin connector and a similar 9-pin connector on the motherboard. I replaced the motherboard after determining that it was failing, but I did not take...

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...

Anyone know where I can find one of these processor's fairly cheap? It is for my son's pc. Thanks Russ

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 2266 desktop and the quick restore disk has been accidentally damaged and is no longer usable. Is there anyone out there that has one they would be willing to sell or make me a copy of. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would love to be able to restore this...

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...

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

We've relaunched our WiFi Hotspot Directory which is accessible via PocketPCs, Palms, Laptops and even iPods. I can send you this months edition which are welcome to distribute freely to your members. I didn't include it with this email as given the rash of virus' many people don't even open emails...

Hi, Can anybody send me or help me with finding where to download a repair manual for a 2700 Presario laptop? The links at the Compaq site are broken. Thanks, NL email:

My Compaq has a Pentium II 266mhz processor. It has been upgraded to 256mb of ram, new 80gb 7200rpm hd and Windows 2000. I know new computers are cheap now, but this machine still works great and I want to keep it. How fast of a processor will its old mother board handle ( even a 333 or 500 or...

I have a Compaq T20 thin client with NTe and would like to Flash WinCE onto it, when I try to do it with netxfer I get and error that says "Security Key does not match" anyone know of a way to flash this thin client with WinCE? thanks