My daughter has a NX6110 laptop. There are two issues with it. 1). It can be grindingly slow especially at start-up. Is this because it's a celeron processor? I've only ever really had full blown P4 or Athlons so don't really have a means of comparison. 2). It periodically keeps "freezing" in...

i recently acquired a Compaq Presario 4770 200MHz. First I could not enter the BIOS setup by pressing F10 or anything else. I wanted the machine to boot the floppy first but the floppy seems to be bad as disabling the hard drive forces a different floppy drive to boot. After getting the new floppy...

I received a new in box HP 286776-B22 unit whose internal drive was marked as spare 404714-001. I can't find any technical documentation that shows what option numbers are sold using that spare number, and this is not the spare I have seen used for this option number in the past. Does...

Does anyone have a System Restore disk for a Compaq Presario Laptop 1400 Series? It is no longer available from Compaq. Can anyone help--please?? Thank you.

Does anyone know wher I can find a mouse pad ribbon cable . Thanks David

I have some Compaq Windows 95 OEM CDs that say only for use with System Restore CD. Looking at the 95 CD, it contains the same files in some directories, but in other cases a .cex is appended to the filename. For whom would these be of any value? For example, would someone with the same Compaq...

I reposted this message to add that my laptop O/S is XP home. I have a Compaq Presario 2700US notebook that I purchased in November of 2001. It has a 1.0 gig cpu,and 384 mb RAM. No new hardware. The problem is that the processor fan starts going full speed after a short time of the computer being...

Hi all. Its a PIII 450 MHZ or some such... Any one know why the BIOS is somhow trying to convince me that the new Seagate 80GB IDE disk is only 14.5GB ? The BIOS is from 1999 "686T2" I think it said. Hopeless or..? jk -- Every day above ground is a good day

Hello All, I have a very old Compaq Deskpro En Series system. I recently bought a Hercules Prophet 3D PCI graphics card and wanted to replace my existing graphics card. (Currently I have S3 video card in one of the PCI slots.) When I replaced my old video card with the new PCI graphics card then...

I have a Presario 5452 which I had to reformat. The video driver, on the motherboard, is not right...only gives me 16 color 640x480. What is the right driver/ what is the driver for the motherboard chipset? I can't find the motherboard chip specs. All help appreciated. thanks, mark

Hi everyone.I am new to this forum.Thouroughly enjoy reading everything that you folks publish+very much appreciate the information sharing.I have been using pc,s for many years but have just recently taken an interest in the nuts+and bolts end of them.I am old time gearhead so this stuff should...

I've been getting alot of run around,can anyone tell whats the largest hard drive i can install in my compaq ,the processor is a amd k5 i think . all help we be greatly appreciated.

The above machine is doing stirling service as a Linux backup system with samba. Memory is 128MB. It has two disks - the original 3.2GB and a 40GB plus a CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. The system is flashed with the latest bios. What are the limits on this machine both in memory nad disks? I tried the 40GB...

Attempting to do a QR on Presario 5330US. QR completes fine, no errors, reads all 3 CD's and then starts Window set-up. Tries to verify harddrive but gives me a message not enough memory. I skip it and then I start getting 'not able to copy file' message. I end set-up knowing something's...

Hey folks, It's a strange situation. I have a Compaq Presario and Road Runner service. When I'm downloading items from newsgroups there is sometimes a long pause between click and download. The download itself is speedy. It's just the wait until it BEGINS downloading. What could be causing...

I have 6 computers that were donated to a school I volunteer at, but I can't find a driver for the onboard LAN connection. All of the computers are Compaq Deskpro EN, P933. I downloaded every driver available from the HP site, but none of them have worked. If there's anyone out there with this...

Hey all, me again, I have an M300 with a Pentium 3 600Mhz chip. Any way I can overclock this without the need of extra cooling/modification? TIA, Karl.

Anyone else had problems with this modem being very slow (Agere Win Modem)and have latest drivers installed? Anyone have any idea's to help me out? Thanks for any help

Hi all, I'm off to uni soon (VERY soon) and have left buying a laptop til pretty late (woops!) - not good. I guess I thought it would be relatively simple, seeing as desktop PCs are (I build mine myself, so I get only the components I want). I was wrong. I have been advised to buy a HP Compaq...

Hi, I build a new array with new, NON compaq harddisks (IBM) on a Compaq Smart-Array Controller. All work fine at this moment :-) I know that the HD's fom Compaq have a special Compaq Firmware. - What exactly is different? - What will happen when a drive fail?