Hey People, I need help for a compaq 4409CL pc. It's running Win Xp home edition. I can get to the Desktop but there is no taskbar, no icons nothing except the wallpaper. I cannot right click on the desktop. I have tried the restore CD nothing happens. the only way to get to anything is by doing a...

I'm attempting to rejuvenate a non-booting Presario, 5423 US. The hints of life include *the green power light *one quick flash of the keyboard lights when the power is first tuned on *the spinning CPU fan *a few seconds of CD drives flashing, although when there is a CD in the drive, nothing...

Hi, I am running XP Pro and have Easy Access Buttons on my case, but I cannot find the software on my system. Anyone know where I can find the software? TIA, Karl

I have a 4000s I want to run without a keyboard or monitor. Things is, on every other computer i've seen, the bios had a setting for halt on error which if set to "none" would allow the machine to boot whether keyboard or monitor was present or not. Is it possible to get one of these to be setup in...

My protection software always includes Back Web Lite among its list of problematic spyware but does note that Compaq systems included it purposefully. My questions: Why did Compaq include it? Is it necessary or helpful? What happens if I delete the "offending" files?

Hi, wi got an used Compaq Presario 5540 (written on the front panel). The Board seems to be a Tekram TRM P6PRO A5 V 1.02. We installed Win2k and the software shutdown won´t work. The machine gives a blue screen, does a memory dump and reboots. I would try a Bios update. Do I need a Compaq Bios or...

Hi, I bought this Deskpro used in 2002. It's got 64 MB of RAM. The former owner said that this could be upgraded to 256 MB. This RAM is in two of three RAM slots on the mainboard. I wonder what sort of RAM (2*128 MB SDRAM ? 1*256 MB SDRAM ? ) could be put in there instead of those two RAM...

I just bought a SR1055CL-B bundle at Costco. It comes with a FP3717 17" flat screen. The monitor seems to have a very slight beep to it, about once a second. Why is this? if I play with the volume, nothing happens. Resetting the machine does not help. It's just loud enough to be a pain...

I want to add a 2nd hard drive for my Compaq N610C laptop. I have several laptop hard drives. I can't find a multibay adapter to put the hard drive in. I don't want to buy one of the multibay hard drives since I already have the drives. Is there some place that sells just the hard drive...

Hi I would like to know about the Compaq server. I am intersted to run oracle on it. Could some one tell me its serial no/model no. Which one is suitable for small running businness. requirement: Oracle 8i\win NT This will help me. Regards

How to enter bios-setup in this computer?

Dear all, I am attempting to recover a compaq armada 1500c (c366/t/4000/d/0/2) from a very nasty crash where it believes the harddisk is non-system. I've looked at the disk with various tools (Trinity Recovery is excellent by the way) ans it seems the partition table is very confused. I understand...

I'm trying to figure out the damage that possibly resulted when this rig was powered up with the red button set to 230 volts. It was brought to us by a mother. Could the CPU be fried or more likely the Power Supply?......Ram, Motherboard also.......any ideas from past experiences or stories...

Anybody managed to get the machine booting without a keyboard attached? I'd like to use this tiny little box for under LINUX for routing and fileserver, but couldn't get around the "no keyboard press F1 to continue" message. I can't find any according switch in the setup, like ordinary machines...

Hello, Has anyone tried to use a DVI - DVI cable with one of these displays? On the inside, it appears to have a DVI-D connector, but the vid cable that came with it has a regular D-Sub15 (vga) connector on it. Can I take a DVI-x cable and run it right from a DVI-D on a Geforce4 TI 4200 Card to...

I have a prosignia 300 compaq with a pentium 75. The prosignia have a embedded ethernet controller. When I watch the bios I see a strange address. Such like Port address: 0xC0000 - 0xEE000. I will load a driver but it doesn't work. I will install lantastic 6.0 and load the following driver:...

Recently purchased a Compaq 1700 Presario laptop used. When went to Compaq site to look up information on unit since came without books etc. there are multiple models listed. Unit has a 900 MHz Pentium III processor and win 98se running with 256 of ram and a 6 gig hd cannot read model or sn on...

My partner has a Compaq she inherited from her mother, lacking the instruction manual. We can't get the speakers to work. Tried a variety of different speakers, nothing. Everything else seems to work fine, just no audio. Please point us in the right direction, thanks. ~Cor

Hello all, I hope Ive got the right ng. I have a presario 6320us at my office. I got a new copier/scanner that reported I did not have a high speed usb port. I imagine it means 2.0. It reported during the installation that I could "click to know more" at the time. I did not want to do so as I...

Looking to replace a noisy, 7200 RPM CPQ 9.1 GB Ultra Wide SCSI (68-pin) HD, P/N 179288-001. What's the best current option? Thx.