Presario 5852 Problems

My sister has a Presario 5852 with all the original hardware except
for a new PCI Ethernet card I installed. Her husband installed
Windows XP on it & it choked--it couldn't handle it. I have wiped the
hard drive & am trying to reinstall Windows 98. The display now has a
bluish tint to everything & the Compaq logo at bootup is blue instead
of red. What the heck is wrong? And how to you access the BIOS for
this PC?

Thanks.
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Check the video card, you prolly unseated it when you put the nic card in.

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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My sister has a Presario 5852 with all the original hardware except
for a new PCI Ethernet card I installed. Her husband installed
Windows XP on it & it choked--it couldn't handle it. I have wiped the
hard drive & am trying to reinstall Windows 98. The display now has a
bluish tint to everything & the Compaq logo at bootup is blue instead
of red. What the heck is wrong? And how to you access the BIOS for
this PC?

Thanks.
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Kim/Dreamspinner3
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I took it out & tried installing a 32mb AGP card and that is when the
colors when crazy. So I pulled out the 32mb card & put the original
PCI video card back in---but still the same problem.

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 18:43:23 -0400, "TerryNC"
wrote:

Check the video card, you prolly unseated it when you put the nic card in.

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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My sister has a Presario 5852 with all the original hardware except
for a new PCI Ethernet card I installed. Her husband installed
Windows XP on it & it choked--it couldn't handle it. I have wiped the
hard drive & am trying to reinstall Windows 98. The display now has a
bluish tint to everything & the Compaq logo at bootup is blue instead
of red. What the heck is wrong? And how to you access the BIOS for
this PC?

Thanks.
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Kim/Dreamspinner3
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Bet you bent a pin. Check the cable.
"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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I took it out & tried installing a 32mb AGP card and that is when the
colors when crazy. So I pulled out the 32mb card & put the original
PCI video card back in---but still the same problem.

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 18:43:23 -0400, "TerryNC"
wrote:

Check the video card, you prolly unseated it when you put the nic card
in.

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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My sister has a Presario 5852 with all the original hardware except
for a new PCI Ethernet card I installed. Her husband installed
Windows XP on it & it choked--it couldn't handle it. I have wiped the
hard drive & am trying to reinstall Windows 98. The display now has a
bluish tint to everything & the Compaq logo at bootup is blue instead
of red. What the heck is wrong? And how to you access the BIOS for
this PC?

Thanks.
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Kim/Dreamspinner3
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Look in the pins on the end of the monitor cable, did you bend one?

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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I took it out & tried installing a 32mb AGP card and that is when the
colors when crazy. So I pulled out the 32mb card & put the original
PCI video card back in---but still the same problem.

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 18:43:23 -0400, "TerryNC"
wrote:

Check the video card, you prolly unseated it when you put the nic card
in.

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
.. .
My sister has a Presario 5852 with all the original hardware except
for a new PCI Ethernet card I installed. Her husband installed
Windows XP on it & it choked--it couldn't handle it. I have wiped the
hard drive & am trying to reinstall Windows 98. The display now has a
bluish tint to everything & the Compaq logo at bootup is blue instead
of red. What the heck is wrong? And how to you access the BIOS for
this PC?

Thanks.
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Kim/Dreamspinner3
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The 5852 should run XP just fine if the RAM is maxed to 384MB I't's a PIII
550 so it has enough processor. What do you mean by "choked"?
HH

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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My sister has a Presario 5852 with all the original hardware except
for a new PCI Ethernet card I installed. Her husband installed
Windows XP on it & it choked--it couldn't handle it. I have wiped the
hard drive & am trying to reinstall Windows 98. The display now has a
bluish tint to everything & the Compaq logo at bootup is blue instead
of red. What the heck is wrong? And how to you access the BIOS for
this PC?

Thanks.
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Kim/Dreamspinner3
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It only has 128mb ram and still has the original 4mb PCI video card.

I've read that the motherboard in this PC can't support a 32mb video
card--is that true? I have a spare Nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP video card
with 32mb of ram I could put her machine if it will handle it but I
read that the motherboard in the 5852 doesn't put out enough power to
support a card of that size.

What I mean by choked is that when my sister's husband installed
Windows XP Pro the machine stopped running right. The video card
wasn't compatible with XP and there are no XP drivers available for it
that I can find. Plus, I found out that he used a bootlegged copy of
XP and I'm sure that was part of the problem as well.

My sister just had a baby & she has no money at all to put into this
machine or any other and so I'm trying to help her out for free. At
least I got the machine back up & running with Windows 98 SE--her
husband doesn't like Windows ME and doesn't want it installed. I
thought ME was better than 98 myself....

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 06:30:33 -0400, "HH" wrote:

The 5852 should run XP just fine if the RAM is maxed to 384MB I't's a PIII
550 so it has enough processor. What do you mean by "choked"?
HH
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My concern about adding a 32MB graphics card to most any Presario is that the
Presarios most often use under-powered anemic power supplies. The nVidia
graphics chips draw a lot of power, and adding one may exceed the capacity of
the power supply. Unless there is a serious weakness in the design of the
motherboard, I doubt that it would have trouble supplying power to a graphics
card.

Just like any install of Windows XP, it is necessary to make sure there are XP
device drivers for EVERY chipset in the system, as well as printers, scanners
and other external devices. If XP is installed without some drivers,
performance is often crippled, or devices simply do not work at all.

.... Ben Myers

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 01:48:46 GMT, Dreamspinner3
wrote:

It only has 128mb ram and still has the original 4mb PCI video card.

I've read that the motherboard in this PC can't support a 32mb video
card--is that true? I have a spare Nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP video card
with 32mb of ram I could put her machine if it will handle it but I
read that the motherboard in the 5852 doesn't put out enough power to
support a card of that size.

What I mean by choked is that when my sister's husband installed
Windows XP Pro the machine stopped running right. The video card
wasn't compatible with XP and there are no XP drivers available for it
that I can find. Plus, I found out that he used a bootlegged copy of
XP and I'm sure that was part of the problem as well.

My sister just had a baby & she has no money at all to put into this
machine or any other and so I'm trying to help her out for free. At
least I got the machine back up & running with Windows 98 SE--her
husband doesn't like Windows ME and doesn't want it installed. I
thought ME was better than 98 myself....

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 06:30:33 -0400, "HH" wrote:

The 5852 should run XP just fine if the RAM is maxed to 384MB I't's a PIII
550 so it has enough processor. What do you mean by "choked"?
HH
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Uh, the 5852 shipped with a 16MB 2X AGP video card, a 3dFX Voodoo 3 - 1000.
Bump the RAM up to 384 and it should run XP fine with that video card. It
certainly did NOT come with a PCI video card.
HH

"Dreamspinner3" wrote in message
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It only has 128mb ram and still has the original 4mb PCI video card.

I've read that the motherboard in this PC can't support a 32mb video
card--is that true? I have a spare Nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP video card
with 32mb of ram I could put her machine if it will handle it but I
read that the motherboard in the 5852 doesn't put out enough power to
support a card of that size.

What I mean by choked is that when my sister's husband installed
Windows XP Pro the machine stopped running right. The video card
wasn't compatible with XP and there are no XP drivers available for it
that I can find. Plus, I found out that he used a bootlegged copy of
XP and I'm sure that was part of the problem as well.

My sister just had a baby & she has no money at all to put into this
machine or any other and so I'm trying to help her out for free. At
least I got the machine back up & running with Windows 98 SE--her
husband doesn't like Windows ME and doesn't want it installed. I
thought ME was better than 98 myself....

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 06:30:33 -0400, "HH" wrote:

The 5852 should run XP just fine if the RAM is maxed to 384MB I't's a
PIII
550 so it has enough processor. What do you mean by "choked"?
HH
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Would any brand 16mb AGP work in this PC then?
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