I bought a CD/DVD drive to replace the CD drive in my 5000T Presario. Removing the side panel was no problem but it looks the the other parts of the cabinet are riveted to the chassis. I can see no way to remove and replace the CD drive. Can someone please help? I'm afraid to get too ambitious...

Hi all, I have a Compaq Armada M700. It currently has 2 64mb memory modules installed, and I have just got a 128mb module off a friend who has just upgraded their laptop. Now their laptop is a no name clone and so is the memory. Will this memory work in my laptop at all? or do I need to...

Presario CDS 954 tower --------------------------------------- Back when my only PC was a pokey Dell 486sx33 I wanted a 486dx4-100 badly but could never quite swing it. Well, someone gave me a Presario CDS 954 the other day, and it sports the dx4-100. I would love to play around with it, but the...

I have been having problems with my desktop a Presario 54200nx refusing to shut down for about 6 months now.... And yesterday and again today my laptop (Presario 2900us) also refused to shut down... BOTH will hibrinate or go on standby.... but will not shut down... Going into DOS ... and typing...

I've got two sticks of 128 MB ram and have room for one more. If I add a stick of 256 MB, does the order in which the three sticks are installed make any difference? Can I just put the 256 stick in the third slot or must I put it in the first slot and move a 128 stick to the third slot? Compaq...

(Chris Simeone) wrote in message ... Can anyone tell me the correct Power Supply pinouts for a Compaq Presario 5204. J15 on the mainboard is a 6-pin connector. J12 on the mainboard is a 12-pin connector. The power...

Hi, I'm an user o old laptop Armada 1592 DT. It's OK for the things I do (Word,Excel etc.) but I've lately thought about uprading its memory and HDD so I've got some questions: 1. What it's the biggest supported HDD by this model (now it's 3,4 GB)? 2. Is the hdd upgrading proccess very difficult?

Keith wrote: I am currently setting up a Compaq deskpro 1000 for a non-profit and the video card that is installed is displayed as a PCI VGA card by windows hardware set up, however it has s-video and a TV-out connector. Does anyone know what type of video card is installed in the Compaq...

I have a drive which is not original to a compaq. I put the drive into a Presario 5000 series (circa autumn 2000). The sound is onboard. The chip is Via AC'97. I took the directory c:\cpqdrv from a running compaq hd, with working sound, and copied it to the new drive. I tried to use the inf file...

After upgrading my Compaq Armada 1700 to Windows Xp the sound card does not work and downloading drivers does not help. I can't even get into the Bios to change the plug and play settings. What can I do? Compaq Armada 1700 6300/T/5000/D/M/3 160 Mb RAM 40 Gb HHD

can anyone advise me on how to buy ram from ebay .. There's getting to be all kind of different types IE. SIMMS DIMMS SDRAM and I'm a bit in the dark in terms of things like bus speed downward compatability. Can I buy a higher bus speed thtn I need so that I can use it in a machine I might...

The RA4000 and RA4100 fibre array software warns you that you cannot expand drives when they run under Windows 2000. What is the observed behavior for such cases? I tried to do it with a small sample NTFS volume I created, and it worked without any problems at all. -- Will Internet: westes at...

I have a Compaq Armada 7800. With the power cord connected the laptop runs fine and power management reports only 3% of the battery is full and that it is still charging when in fact its not. I have a new battery and external charger so I know the battery is good and fully charged, also the...

I have a compaq armada 3500. I would like to go to the BIOS Settings. But clicking F10, Del or other keys doesn't work. Can someone help me? Thanks.

Had this problem, and saw I wasn't the first. "My M700 no longer powers up, with or without the battery. The battery led flashes 8 times and then the system switches off. The power led does not come on at all. Even with the laptop closed (ie screen down) and the AC plugged in with no battery...

I currently have Window Media Player 9 installed on my computer. No matter what I try it will not open up tho. So, can I just go to the Microsoft website and download Windows Media Player 9 again? Or do I need to uninstall media player 9 first? When I go to the install/uninstall program I...

Hello All, I'm new here. I have a compaq presario 1500 laptop. It's 2 years old. The problem I have now is that there are blue vertical lines everywhere on the monitor. I tried to reboot the computer and turned it off and on, but the lines remained there. Sometimes red lines also appear on the...

I have a Presario 5834 which was given to me free by a friend who no longer had use for it. I am having problems with the CD burner making coasters. The system came with system restore disks that load the factory installed software. These disks install the CeQuadrat program for creating...

Hi, A friend has a S5000nx (I believe) and wants to reformat and reload Win98SE on it. How can I get all the drivers that I will need? Has anyone here done this? thanks, George

No,it all depends on the processor and equipment installed,though most seem terribly underpowered.My 5423US is a Pentium 4 model,and only has a 235 watt psu,barely enough to do the job.Since most decent graphics cards require at least 300 watts these days,you'll probably need a bigger...