Need QuickRestore CD numbers 2, 3 and 4 for the Compaq Presario 6350US. TIA Claude

Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1200 XL110 with standard 6.4GB hard drive that needs replacement due to increasing bad sectors. Is there a relatively painless way to upgrade this notebook to a 20 or 40GB HDD? Any help and info is appreciated. Thanks. Nick BIOS: PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.

Hi, I recently got a Presario 2700. I installed XP pro, and everything is fine, except that the buttons at the top don't work. (For instance the volume control buttons don't do anything and even the power button can't be reprogrammed, it just shuts right off.) I've looked all over but can't...

Hello there, I bought a used Evo N800V laptop recently and found a very annoying defect... The screen has got a vertical band where the image is not shown correctly, but "distorted". It doesn't seem to be a problem of dead pixels (and the LCD panel itself doesn't seem to have been hit). The...

Hi, I need a replacement motherboard for a presario laptop 1210us with an AMD processor (about 800mhz). So as to broaden my search, does anyone know about compatibility with other models in the 1200 series, or any other series? Thanks

I have a Evo desktop that appeared to have a blown power supply. I replaced the power supply and now the power led is flashing at a one second interval when turned on. What I can find on the internet points to a bad ROM and one poster had this problem and flashed the BIOS to fix it. I reset the...

Hi, I have an *old* Compaq LTE 5280 that I'm trying to set up for a friend. Nothing fancy...load up 95 or 98 and get it on the net. (preferably 98 so I don't have to worry about partition size issues) This laptop has interchangeable floppy and CD-ROM drives. I can only have one in at a time....

Can anybody help a newbie, to work out how to upgrade my AMD K6 380mhz? I have replaced the CPU with a AMD 500mhz but the computer still recognises it as a 380! The Bios is of no help, so are there any jumpers that need to be changed. Also what is the Max amount of RAM the computer will take and...

Hi,have one of these with a smashed glass.The actual display is undamaged.Is it possible to remove/replace the glass? TIA Mick

It runs with windows 98. I installed a new sound card and works fine but how do I uninstall the other one? I tried going to Device Manager and remove it from there but everytime I reboot my computer it will install itself again. Thanks Maureen

Is there an easy to see all sofpaqs that have been released pretaining to a ceartin model number?

When I tried to add a spare Maxtor HDD that I have laying around, I got the message "1720 - Hard Drive detects imminent failure" during bootup. I tred to confirm the problem with Maxtor's diagnostic software, Powermax, and it did not find any problems. I also tried switching from primary IDE to...

Was given an old computer system that I'd like to reinstall the original configuration into. Could someone post any and all disks/CDs for this computer. Are there any websites other than HP's? I posted to alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.old and got a reply that this compaq NG might be able to answer.

When I bought my Compaq Presario 5000T desktop with XP Home almost two years ago it came with a Recovery CD with a Compaq logo and a three-CD set labeled QuickRestore, again with a Compaq logo. What's the difference and what should these be used for? From the names I hope I never have need for...

Inherited a Compaq Presario with Bad Motherboard Capacitors. Did not realize that the Bad Caps were probably causing problems for a long time. Was blaming Windows! Am wondering how may other Compaq owners are having or have had this problem? Hard to believe I am the only one! Did a search but...

I'm trying to open the case of a Compaq Presario 1456VQLN laptop. Have removed some screws from bottom of case but it still doesn't open. Mel Levine

Looking for help - my Compaq armada e500 currently has 256MB memory but I want to upgrade to 512MB. How do I install? Advice on how to do this would be appreciated! -- Cal2006

hi gang, i hope this is the right forum for this problem. whenever i start up my puter i receive an error message saying RBA has encountered a problem. i then have the option to send or not send the report. can someone please tell me what RBA stands for, what it does and can i solve this problem....

I need to know how I get into the bios on this computer, I cannot get the sound to work after installing Windows ME ....I have downloaded the drivers and everything from Compaq , put seem to have problems with the usb bus also. Can someone tell me how ...the delete key doesn't do it.

I have got an old and outdated "Compaq LTE 5100" portable, with Windows 95 PLUS on it. Machine works OK, but when I connect to my printer "HP Deskjet 600" I get nothing out on the printer. When I connect the same printer to an even older "Toshiba" portable I also have, then printing functions as...