Picked up a nice little 733MHz Compaq Deskpro small form factor box at a corporate yardsale recently. Original specs of 128MB, 10GB, 48x CD, Win 2000 Pro. Upgraded to 256MB. Nice computer. Opened up the chassis and saw a Western Digital WD400BB disk drive in it. Looked up the specs at the WD...

I'm looking for a new laptop - probably used for a year or two - I need something with a longer battery life than 2 hrs, and also retains it's charge while sitting on the shelf - I've found the various Toshiba laptops we have loose their charge just sitting around - Any specific models to look...

Just inherited one of these, little box that can charge 2 batteries at once. Problem is, the orange charge lights don't stay on, they give some sort of code which I don't know the meaning of Battery 1 (known to hold a charge and last more than an hour) orange light stays on for a few minutes,...

Are you still looking for batteries of IBM laptop? Are you still confused for where to buy a good IBM thinkpad batteries?If you say yes, just listen to me. My friend Bell bought a battery of ibm thinkpad 600e from http://www.ibm-laptop-batteries.co.uk ,a online store for ibm laptop.He told me it...

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Does anyone know where to purchase a QuickRestore for a Presario 5304 It came with Win98 SE. I need this computer for school and dont have $$$ to spend on a new one. -- --------------------------------- --- -- -

Help, I have a Compaq LTE5300 laptop with a screen problem. A white line has started in the middle of the screen. It started out about a 1/8 inch and is now about 3/8 inch. I didn't drop it or hit it. Is the screen no good or could it be a system problem ? I have a second question I have...

Hi, I tried to find the CPUs the subject PC would support on the COMPAQ site. They played HIDE better than I played SEEK. Can anyone provide this info or a link to the page where its located? Thank You, in advance, for any help.

I am trying to upgrade a HP pavillion a400y. Spec says it can take PC2700 up to 2GB with max of 1GB per slot. Right now i have 256MB installed PC2700 DDR. When i look in the bios it says installed memory 256MB/PC2100, mem bank 1 n/a mem bank 2 250MB/DDR When i add the 1GB DDR PC2700 the memory...

On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:09:23 -0500, admin wrote: http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=compaq * * * I find that mepis7, and Puppy Linux have save a lot of older systems, that have passed throught this space... I like the Mepis rolling update KDE linux, that is quite different than Ubuntu's make...

"Quaoar" wrote in message ... name wrote: "Quaoar" wrote in message news:Tc%Ha.1030582$Zo.236065@sccrnsc03... name wrote: Hello. On a compaq deskpro p800 running...

Hello, I would really appreciate your help. I have a Compaq Portable II (286 CPU) that I was given, working state unknown. When I plug it in and switch it on I hear a beeping noise and only the floppy drive light blinks on and off. The hard disk doesn't spin up, no monitor, or lights on kb About a...

I have a Compaq 5430US running Windows XP and I'm having problems with my Multimedia USB Keyboard model# KUS0060 with smart card reader. I had to rig the keyboard to work and I'm wondering if it will give me problems down the road. Here's the story. My main hard drive failed so I bought a new...

Bought a new Compaq Presario last month and because of some problems, I am told I need to do a complete Restoration. Problem is, I never got any Restoration CD or OS CD with this system. Was I suppose to???? Got the system at Orifice Depot. Regards and thanks in advance.... LS

** New info noted below Helpful Links: For drivers, software, manuals/docs http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/ For Quickrestore CDs: http://qrcons.orderz.com/page1.asp For Compaq spare parts http://vztxesppro3.cce.hp.com/hpparts/Default.asp?mscssid=035V7F6T9K0U9JCT3BQC64L4GC57AGB1

Hey People, I need help for a compaq 4409CL pc. It's running Win Xp home edition. I can get to the Desktop but there is no taskbar, no icons nothing except the wallpaper. I cannot right click on the desktop. I have tried the restore CD nothing happens. the only way to get to anything is by doing a...

I have a Presario 5116EA that will not restore from the recovery disk. The OS is ME and is totally screwed, lots of blue screens of death, freezes up etc. I did swap the hard drive and loaded W2K and the PC behaves normally so no hardware problems. I have swapped back the hard...

I recently bought some eBay RAM from someone with a good rep there, 100%. I've had the chip in for about 10 days and I thought everything was fine. It seems to show up, i.e from when I first put it in and the BIOS amended itself. And it shows up as having gone from 256 mb to 512 when I look at...

Author:name ) Subject: locating driver for integrated audio on deskpro Newsgroup:alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq Date:2003-05-03 17:07:06 PST Finally managed to solve the problem. The system did recognize the integrated audio as "AC'97 Intel 82801 AA" or something...

Reposting to other groups too. Technically not a "recall" but it is. Do not toss that Compaq/ HP laptop or batter nor pay anyone to fix the PC until you READ THIS: While at the HP site checking my battery issue: ...