I am attempting to recover a compaq armada 1500c
(c366/t/4000/d/0/2) from a very nasty crash where it believes the
harddisk is non-system. I've looked at the disk with various tools
(Trinity Recovery is excellent by the way) ans it seems the partition

   Just my views on upgrades.
1.  Bang to bucks, RAM has about the biggest pay off followed by CPUs
2.  Know the motherboard and it's limits and you won't need to ask if it's
worth upgrading.

Friends don't let friends buy Compaq

Presario CDS 954 tower
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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

About six weeks ago I shipped off my Presario 1700T laptop for repair.  The
hard drive had some mechanical problems and the battery was dead.  Both
should have been covered under my extended three year warranty.
Just last week, I finally got confirmation that my laptop was received.

Curious..Some Compaqs carry the
"CL" suffix and others carry "US."
Anyone know the difference?
Thanks

Does anyone have an old 5240 QuickRestore disk?  I've tried ebay to no avail
(as of yet)......
thanks.....

I have a Compaq Presario 5000 and was trying to see if i could get a
faster processor for it. Been looking all over the net and couldn't
find
anything. I opened the case but couldn't get much info on any of those

I'm trying to figure out the damage that possibly resulted when this rig was
powered up with the red button set to 230 volts. It was brought to us by a
mother. Could the CPU be fried or more likely the Power Supply?......Ram,
Motherboard also.......any ideas from past experiences or ...

Is there a way to use my machine as is and upgrade the processor to a faster
unit. Mine is 1.3 now but a 2.0-2.3 would be nice! Thanks!

I'm taking a look at a friends Compaq for him and I'm having some
problems.  I personally haven't made the jump to XP yet (I'm saving for
a completely new system) so I'm not sure if there's an XP workaround for
this or not.

Is $300 (Cdn) too much to pay for the following PC?
750 MHz AMD? Duron T Processor
64 MB 100 MHz SyncDRAM
30.0 GB 2 UltraDMA Hard Drive

I have a Compaq 5108 (5000 series) I am trying to fix for a friend and I
am kind of stumped.
The box as 2 IDE controllers onboard.  The primary has only the main HD
(40Gb) and the secondary has a DVD Drive and a CDRW burner.

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

Folk;
I have a two years old Compaq Presario 1201T laptop running Windows ME.
I'm in the process of buying a PCMCIA ethernet card for my box.
The Compaq manual (if it can be called that) only says that I have