Compaq Presario 5WV294 Recovery Problem

one other thing ... I had an old clone pc that I scavenged for parts
and it had a store-bought copy of win98 with it! I loaded that and used
compaq/ drivers.com website drivers to get nic and video going. BUT ...
it sees USB ports but doesn't sense anything when I plug in a usb drive.
here's my question ...
I remember that SOME versions of Win98 had USB support and others
didn't - how can I tell if it's the version vs a bios/hw/driver issue
( compaq/hp site made no mention of usb drivers). I thought seeing USB
root hubs was good - but I never was a user of win98 to know "what's
normal".

Assuming that usb support IS ok, any reason why it wouldn't sense
512mbUSB mem stick? ( that I thought I'd use to load the nic drivers. )
It now boots , network and video OK, but no CDRW nor DVD sw - oh well. I
would like to have the USB ports work before returning it to her - the
rest of the sw is gonna be up to her - I TOLD her to back it up or buy
the restore CD's when it was new!!



"- Bobb -" wrote in message
. ..
I know this thread is 2 years old , BUT I was just asked by a friend to
help her with her PC.
This is the model number on the big sticker on the side ( that they
never removed ??) and the 40gb drive was formatted ( I don't know the
details but only a blank C partition now).

She said that it had Win2000 shipped with it and of course, she has
only the quickrestore CD - and since no D partition to data to recover
, it's a boat anchor. It's a 1ghz AMD athlon with 128 mb of mem and
she'd be better off to spend $250 for a new one but they don't have
the money and it would cost $100 to even put an OS on it. I told her
I'd try to help her out but no promises. So ... any dealers (we're
near Boston) out there that have old restore CD's for these ?? Any
online pointers ?

I checked Ebay, Compaq website, google etc and looking for pointers on
where she might find CDs for this thing ? for cheap money

Worst case, does someone know ... does it HAVE to be a AMD restore set
? If so , how would I know by looking at the CD's since I can't find a
part number for them online ? What I'm getting at - if I find someone
tossing an old Intel based presario - that had recovery CD's - would
those CD's work ?

Thanks,
Bobb


"Robert W. Rafferty" wrote in message
...
My wifes computer was having a problem in that it would go to the
sign on
(XP Professional), and then reboot after you sign on. I took the
40Gig
Drive and put it in slot 2, and bought a new 80Gig Seagate Drive and
put it
in slot 1. I then used the 3 disk CD recovery set and loaded it on
the new
drive (or so I thought). The computer works fine down, but I noticed
that
all my information is gone off the slot 2 drive (original drive) . I
originally had planned to move her files over to the new drive and
also her
address book, and email and use the old drive for storage. Does
the
recovery disk format the second drive also? If not, what do I need
to do
to see this data now?

Windows 98SE has USB support. Not sure about Windows 98 First Edition, 'cause
I've tried to avoid it and have succeeded to the extent that I can remember very
little about it.

The older USB 1.0 ports sometimes work but often do not with even low power USB
thumb drives. USB 2.0, introduced with later Pentium 4 Socket 478 systems,
handles all manner of devices which require power from the USB connector.

The USB drive problem is most likely because the USB ports are too darn old. To
test if the USB is working or not, plug in a USB mouse or keyboard, both known
to work well with USB 1.0.

I have a Pentium 3 notebook here that absolutely refuses to read a USB thumb
drive, but earlier today I worked on an older Compaq Pentium 2 or 3 computer
that handled a thumb drive perfectly, making it easy to transfer files to
another computer... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:53:42 -0500, "- Bobb -" wrote:

one other thing ... I had an old clone pc that I scavenged for parts
and it had a store-bought copy of win98 with it! I loaded that and used
compaq/ drivers.com website drivers to get nic and video going. BUT ...
it sees USB ports but doesn't sense anything when I plug in a usb drive.
here's my question ...
I remember that SOME versions of Win98 had USB support and others
didn't - how can I tell if it's the version vs a bios/hw/driver issue
( compaq/hp site made no mention of usb drivers). I thought seeing USB
root hubs was good - but I never was a user of win98 to know "what's
normal".

Assuming that usb support IS ok, any reason why it wouldn't sense
512mbUSB mem stick? ( that I thought I'd use to load the nic drivers. )
It now boots , network and video OK, but no CDRW nor DVD sw - oh well. I
would like to have the USB ports work before returning it to her - the
rest of the sw is gonna be up to her - I TOLD her to back it up or buy
the restore CD's when it was new!!

Sorry - I should have noted that it is Win98SE that I installed.
I don't have any usb kb/mice to try but I'm thinking that you're right
about "not knowing what this thing is". If I leave it in at boot time I
get a blue screen with Vxd error - have to hard power off. Reboot
without the usb drive and boots ok. I'll try pny.com to see if they have
an updated driver for the thumb drive. Thanks


"Ben Myers" wrote in message
...
Windows 98SE has USB support. Not sure about Windows 98 First
Edition, 'cause
I've tried to avoid it and have succeeded to the extent that I can
remember very
little about it.

The older USB 1.0 ports sometimes work but often do not with even low
power USB
thumb drives. USB 2.0, introduced with later Pentium 4 Socket 478
systems,
handles all manner of devices which require power from the USB
connector.

The USB drive problem is most likely because the USB ports are too
darn old. To
test if the USB is working or not, plug in a USB mouse or keyboard,
both known
to work well with USB 1.0.

I have a Pentium 3 notebook here that absolutely refuses to read a USB
thumb
drive, but earlier today I worked on an older Compaq Pentium 2 or 3
computer
that handled a thumb drive perfectly, making it easy to transfer files
to
another computer... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:53:42 -0500, "- Bobb -"
wrote:

one other thing ... I had an old clone pc that I scavenged for parts
and it had a store-bought copy of win98 with it! I loaded that and
used
compaq/ drivers.com website drivers to get nic and video going. BUT
...
it sees USB ports but doesn't sense anything when I plug in a usb
drive.
here's my question ...
I remember that SOME versions of Win98 had USB support and others
didn't - how can I tell if it's the version vs a bios/hw/driver issue
( compaq/hp site made no mention of usb drivers). I thought seeing USB
root hubs was good - but I never was a user of win98 to know "what's
normal".

Assuming that usb support IS ok, any reason why it wouldn't sense
512mbUSB mem stick? ( that I thought I'd use to load the nic
drivers. )
It now boots , network and video OK, but no CDRW nor DVD sw - oh well.
I
would like to have the USB ports work before returning it to her - the
rest of the sw is gonna be up to her - I TOLD her to back it up or buy
the restore CD's when it was new!!

U would be far better off spending $20 for a USB 2.0 PCI card.

HH


"- Bobb -" wrote in message
. ..
Sorry - I should have noted that it is Win98SE that I installed.
I don't have any usb kb/mice to try but I'm thinking that you're right
about "not knowing what this thing is". If I leave it in at boot time I
get a blue screen with Vxd error - have to hard power off. Reboot without
the usb drive and boots ok. I'll try pny.com to see if they have an
updated driver for the thumb drive. Thanks


"Ben Myers" wrote in message
...
Windows 98SE has USB support. Not sure about Windows 98 First Edition,
'cause
I've tried to avoid it and have succeeded to the extent that I can
remember very
little about it.

The older USB 1.0 ports sometimes work but often do not with even low
power USB
thumb drives. USB 2.0, introduced with later Pentium 4 Socket 478
systems,
handles all manner of devices which require power from the USB connector.

The USB drive problem is most likely because the USB ports are too darn
old. To
test if the USB is working or not, plug in a USB mouse or keyboard, both
known
to work well with USB 1.0.

I have a Pentium 3 notebook here that absolutely refuses to read a USB
thumb
drive, but earlier today I worked on an older Compaq Pentium 2 or 3
computer
that handled a thumb drive perfectly, making it easy to transfer files to
another computer... Ben Myers

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:53:42 -0500, "- Bobb -" wrote:

one other thing ... I had an old clone pc that I scavenged for parts
and it had a store-bought copy of win98 with it! I loaded that and used
compaq/ drivers.com website drivers to get nic and video going. BUT ...
it sees USB ports but doesn't sense anything when I plug in a usb drive.
here's my question ...
I remember that SOME versions of Win98 had USB support and others
didn't - how can I tell if it's the version vs a bios/hw/driver issue
( compaq/hp site made no mention of usb drivers). I thought seeing USB
root hubs was good - but I never was a user of win98 to know "what's
normal".

Assuming that usb support IS ok, any reason why it wouldn't sense
512mbUSB mem stick? ( that I thought I'd use to load the nic drivers. )
It now boots , network and video OK, but no CDRW nor DVD sw - oh well. I
would like to have the USB ports work before returning it to her - the
rest of the sw is gonna be up to her - I TOLD her to back it up or buy
the restore CD's when it was new!!

Good point. Agreed... Ben Myers

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:44:33 -0500, "HH" wrote:

U would be far better off spending $20 for a USB 2.0 PCI card.

HH

"Ben Myers" wrote in message
...
Good point. Agreed... Ben Myers

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:44:33 -0500, "HH"
wrote:

U would be far better off spending $20 for a USB 2.0 PCI card.

HH


I loaded the PNY driver and all is well.
PS It wasn't my PC to spend the $$ on and she doesn't have it - which
is how I got involved in the first place.

Update:
I did install Win98 Ok but couldn't find any model specific apps. BUT
during the holidays, I found another friend with a similiar model ( 5000
series) presario. I used her Easy Cd creator and PowerDVD factory CD's
to get the first one going and now EZCD and DVD player work as they
should on that second one too.

Bobb

"- Bobb -" wrote in message
. ..
one other thing ... I had an old clone pc that I scavenged for parts
and it had a store-bought copy of win98 with it! I loaded that and
used compaq/ drivers.com website drivers to get nic and video going.
BUT ... it sees USB ports but doesn't sense anything when I plug in a
usb drive.
here's my question ...
I remember that SOME versions of Win98 had USB support and others
didn't - how can I tell if it's the version vs a bios/hw/driver issue
( compaq/hp site made no mention of usb drivers). I thought seeing USB
root hubs was good - but I never was a user of win98 to know "what's
normal".

Assuming that usb support IS ok, any reason why it wouldn't sense
512mbUSB mem stick? ( that I thought I'd use to load the nic
drivers. )
It now boots , network and video OK, but no CDRW nor DVD sw - oh well.
I would like to have the USB ports work before returning it to her -
the rest of the sw is gonna be up to her - I TOLD her to back it up or
buy the restore CD's when it was new!!



"- Bobb -" wrote in message
. ..
I know this thread is 2 years old , BUT I was just asked by a friend
to help her with her PC.
This is the model number on the big sticker on the side ( that they
never removed ??) and the 40gb drive was formatted ( I don't know the
details but only a blank C partition now).

She said that it had Win2000 shipped with it and of course, she has
only the quickrestore CD - and since no D partition to data to
recover , it's a boat anchor. It's a 1ghz AMD athlon with 128 mb of
mem and she'd be better off to spend $250 for a new one but they
don't have the money and it would cost $100 to even put an OS on it.
I told her I'd try to help her out but no promises. So ... any
dealers (we're near Boston) out there that have old restore CD's for
these ?? Any online pointers ?

I checked Ebay, Compaq website, google etc and looking for pointers
on where she might find CDs for this thing ? for cheap money

Worst case, does someone know ... does it HAVE to be a AMD restore
set ? If so , how would I know by looking at the CD's since I can't
find a part number for them online ? What I'm getting at - if I find
someone tossing an old Intel based presario - that had recovery
CD's - would those CD's work ?

Thanks,
Bobb


"Robert W. Rafferty" wrote in message
...
My wifes computer was having a problem in that it would go to the
sign on
(XP Professional), and then reboot after you sign on. I took the
40Gig
Drive and put it in slot 2, and bought a new 80Gig Seagate Drive and
put it
in slot 1. I then used the 3 disk CD recovery set and loaded it on
the new
drive (or so I thought). The computer works fine down, but I
noticed that
all my information is gone off the slot 2 drive (original drive) .
I
originally had planned to move her files over to the new drive and
also her
address book, and email and use the old drive for storage. Does
the
recovery disk format the second drive also? If not, what do I
need to do
to see this data now?