Does anyone know what the approximate battery life is supposed to be on this unit? I get about one hour on a fully charged 18 month old battery.

Needing to upgrade the wife's computer but money is a bit tight. Was looking at the Northgate desktops in Staples. Either the Athlon XP 3000 or 64. Any opinions or experience with them? TIA HC

I have a 5wv235 (serial # 8047FPP410C9 )Presario with the original 10GB Hard Drive. I updated recently to windows XP- SP1 ( the original operating system was windows 2000 or ME not sure). Never upgraded the BIOS because apparently no-one is available for windows XP. Current Bios date: 10/12/00. I...

I have a Pressario 500 Series (5446EA), and want to upgrade the PSU to a more powerful one. I have been trying to find info from Compaq about the PSU, but they aren't very forthcoming. Does anyone have any information about the type of PSU in this computer, and possibly places that sell PSU's for...

I am looking for advice prior to installing the Windows XP SP2 service pack. I have 2 Compaq Desktops #1 Compaq Presario S3010CL-B (Sam's Club 7/3/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2200+ #2 Compaq Presario S5000J (Compaq Direct 9/13/2003) AMD Athlon XP 2400+ The machines are Windowx XP SP1 with all Critical...

I'm running a Compaq Presario 5868 with WindowsXP Home Edition and SP2 installed. I also use a dial-up connection. Whenever I hang up and try to connect again I get an error message telling me the modem is off the hook. Error 676. When I reboot everything is fine until I hang up again and get...

Hi, It spits out a 'keyboard error, press F1 to boot' if I boot without a keyboard plugged into the keyboard PS2 port. It doesn't seem to recognise the USB keyboard that is attached, so I plug a board back into the PS2 and press F1 and it boots up as normal. Is there a way to get it to recognise...

Was given a 5005 SR desktop. Looking for Windows 98 video drivers for the onboard video. Have gone to the Compaq driver page and found audio and other drivers, but no video. Anyone have any other source? Thanks Terry

My 1245 laptop has a few issues. The floppy drive has died and the battery is dead too. I can live with that (I use the 110 plug all the time anyway, probably what killed the battery anyway). I figure that a PCMCIA driven floppy will care for the drive problem.... will it???? Or should I use a USB...

Hello folks, Rod in 2002 posted a message which describes my problem exactly: I am trying to access the setup utility from floppys created by downloading from the compaq web site. This is on a deskpro 2000 5233mmx. There is no diagnostic partition on the hard drive. When I load the utility and...

Hi to all I have a old compaq deskpro ep c266/2.1 ntl Now i have instal windows ME on it. The problem is that i cant find the wmd drivers for it. I have seen it on the net for win 98 but not for ME. Can someone tell me where i can download it? Sorry for my english. Its not so good.

I posted about two weeks ago and asked if there was a reason for this machines slowness...HH and one other, told me that the Hard Drive is 5400 RPM, the video also slows the machine etc...thank you for your input..it did help but!!! Well I am going to change out the motherboard, hard drive, video...

Hi, I have a problem with my notebooks compaq pressario 1200. I don't know if I am in the good newsgroup for my question, if it's not the case I'am sorry for this mail. I bought my computer six years ago. It works under Windows Me but I would like to know if it's possible to change my version of...

Hi all, I have a friend who has a Compaq Presario, with a label on the tower that says 7360. She did a Quick Restore because of the blue screen of death, after being online and chatting at Yahoo. Now, the cd rom drive will not recognize any cd at all. I'm guessing a corrupt driver, but just...

I received a Compaq Presario 1700 Notebook (model number 17XL365) from my neighbor a while ago. The laptop's OS (Windows XP) was in bad shape, so I decided to reformat the whole hard drive. Big mistake. After formatting the whole hard drive, I found out that the Quick Restore CD only contains...

I have a couple of AC adapters for Compaq Laptops - Compaq Series 2812 18V 2.5A Mail me if interested MG UK **REMOVE** 'myhat' from my return email address before sending!!

I have a Presario 1200XL118 that will not turn on. The switch appears to be functional. I have replaced the RTC battery. When powered by AC cord and the battery is plugged in......I get a power light for the AC but nothing from the battery, neither green nor red - just nothing. Should I be...

I have a leftover 128Mb PC10 SDRAM CL3 stick Mail if interetsed MG UK **REMOVE** 'myhat' from my return email address before sending!!

SR1120NX -2.66 GHZ - 512 DDR Mem - 80gig drv, etc.... What I want to do, is replace the 80 gig - with a 160 gig (8 meg cache) and have my pref of # of partitions. Still maintaining the "recovery partition" & WinXP (supply on same). No (OS) cd`s were supplied with system (Normal,I guess?) I have...

Hi everybody, just bought an old Proliant 850R and installed Linux on it. Everything is fine, no problems. However, I did not find a way to enter the BIOS to see/change items. I can rember from my Compaq Notebook experiences that usually F10 is the magic key, but nothing happens. There is also no...