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December 30th 04, 02:51 PM
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7596 refuses to boot...
I have an old Compaq (7596) that until yesterday evening worked fine BUT I have noticed that the floppy dirve was making some strange sounds the last few days.... Anyhow now the word compaq flashes on the screen and I get a blinking white mark on the top left of the screen and thats as far as it goes...and the light on the floppy stays lite up no matter if I have a disk in the drive or not... Tried to boot from my "Windows ME" CD ...nothing.. (the computer is running ME BTW... Tried to get into bios by hitting F8 or F10.. nothing.. .. I suspect that the floppy is shot... and the machine wil not get any further then the "A" drive looking for the system files... (btw) putting in a boot disc in the "A" drive does not work either... Question .(s) 1. correct way to get into bios... to alter the boot order? 2. If I need to replace the floppy...can I just go out and purchase a standard 3 1/4 in floppy ... since my experience with compaq's is limited I do not know 3. Assuming I have to take it apart I might as well increase the ram up to 512...(it has 256 now)...what type of memory does this machine use... Thanks... Sorry for the dumb questions but I am not really a Computer Tech ...for sure... Bob Griffiths 
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December 30th 04, 05:37 PM
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1. F10 at the Compaq logo screen.
2. You are lucky. The 7596 uses an industry standard 3.5" floppy drive. 3. The 7596 uses PC100 syncDRAM. Each of the two slots can take up to a 256MB Low/Single density DIMM. Try: http://www.crucial.com Here is a link to the Maintenance & service guide to the 7500 series Presarios: http://www.compaq.com/athome/support/msgs/7500/ HH "Bob G." wrote in message ... I have an old Compaq (7596) that until yesterday evening worked fine BUT I have noticed that the floppy dirve was making some strange sounds the last few days.... Anyhow now the word compaq flashes on the screen and I get a blinking white mark on the top left of the screen and thats as far as it goes...and the light on the floppy stays lite up no matter if I have a disk in the drive or not... Tried to boot from my "Windows ME" CD ...nothing.. (the computer is running ME BTW... Tried to get into bios by hitting F8 or F10.. nothing.. . I suspect that the floppy is shot... and the machine wil not get any further then the "A" drive looking for the system files... (btw) putting in a boot disc in the "A" drive does not work either... Question .(s) 1. correct way to get into bios... to alter the boot order? 2. If I need to replace the floppy...can I just go out and purchase a standard 3 1/4 in floppy ... since my experience with compaq's is limited I do not know 3. Assuming I have to take it apart I might as well increase the ram up to 512...(it has 256 now)...what type of memory does this machine use... Thanks... Sorry for the dumb questions but I am not really a Computer Tech ...for sure... Bob Griffiths
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December 30th 04, 10:44 PM
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disco the floppy drive, see if it will boot.
"Bob G." wrote in message ... I have an old Compaq (7596) that until yesterday evening worked fine BUT I have noticed that the floppy dirve was making some strange sounds the last few days.... Anyhow now the word compaq flashes on the screen and I get a blinking white mark on the top left of the screen and thats as far as it goes...and the light on the floppy stays lite up no matter if I have a disk in the drive or not... Tried to boot from my "Windows ME" CD ...nothing.. (the computer is running ME BTW... Tried to get into bios by hitting F8 or F10.. nothing.. . I suspect that the floppy is shot... and the machine wil not get any further then the "A" drive looking for the system files... (btw) putting in a boot disc in the "A" drive does not work either... Question .(s) 1. correct way to get into bios... to alter the boot order? 2. If I need to replace the floppy...can I just go out and purchase a standard 3 1/4 in floppy ... since my experience with compaq's is limited I do not know 3. Assuming I have to take it apart I might as well increase the ram up to 512...(it has 256 now)...what type of memory does this machine use... Thanks... Sorry for the dumb questions but I am not really a Computer Tech ...for sure... Bob Griffiths
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December 31st 04, 03:55 PM
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Anyhow now the word compaq flashes on the screen and I get a blinking
white mark on the top left of the screen and thats as far as it goes...and the light on the floppy stays lite up no matter if I have a disk in the drive or not... Had the same thing happen. Paid Compaq $45 for them to tell me to format and reinstall windows. Pat
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