I have a problem with my notebooks compaq pressario 1200.
I don't know if I am in the good newsgroup for my question, if it's not the
case I'am sorry for this mail.
I bought my computer six years ago. It works under Windows Me but I would

 I have a friend who has a Compaq Presario, with a label on the tower
that says 7360.  She did a Quick Restore because of the blue screen of
death, after being online and chatting at Yahoo.  Now, the cd rom
drive will not recognize any cd at all.  I'm guessing a corrupt

I received a Compaq Presario 1700 Notebook (model number 17XL365) from my
neighbor a while ago. The laptop's OS (Windows XP) was in bad shape, so I
decided to reformat the whole hard drive. Big mistake. After formatting the
whole hard drive, I found out that the Quick Restore CD ...

I have a couple of AC adapters for Compaq Laptops - Compaq Series 2812
18V 2.5A
Mail me if interested
MG

I have a Presario 1200XL118 that will not turn on.  The switch appears to be
functional.  I have replaced the RTC battery.  When powered by AC cord and the
battery is plugged in......I get a power light for the AC but nothing from the
battery, neither green nor red - just nothing.

just bought an old Proliant 850R and installed Linux on it. Everything is
fine, no problems.
However, I did not find a way to enter the BIOS to see/change items.
I can rember from my Compaq Notebook experiences that usually F10 is the

been told i should fdisk my hard drive to solve the problem i have trying
to system restore? how do you fdisk? i have compaq deskpro EXMs c850
system.trying to use the recovery disc and keep getting read error 0x0B
when almost finished.please some one help before i go mad. thanks

 If anyone can point me towards a way to run some kind of DOS drivers
for my soundcard (I have just the on-board card which came with the
Presario 5360).
I have tried using generic Soundblaster drivers, but it says it cannot

I've been with Compaq/HP online chat for almost an hour.. with no
success. I have a compaq presario 5660. I have the latest bios (1999
ver). I get into the Bios by clicking F10.
I cannot find anywhere in the Bios how to change the boot sequence. I

Hi all; a friend of mine has an ex works Deskpro EP desktop model, with a
500 MHz Pentium III processor and Intel 810e chipset.
Can anyone advise if I can fit a faster processor and tell me what the max
memory is. I have had a good look at the HP site and downloaded some of the

How to get into BIOS in Armada 1700 ?
Thanks.

have a compaq deskpro EXMs/C850 system running win 98 se. problem is my
kids crashed the system and i used full system recovery disc as i have
once before. this time not successfully. the cd runs then almost at end it
comes up with critical error.  0x0B Read fault. gives me the ...

I cant get an Abit Siluro T400 64MB AGP to even post on Presario 5000.
Nothing wrong with card as it works fine in two other pcs. I can get
to work: ATI Xpert@play 8MB AGP, Aopen Ti4200 128MB AGP, and a Matrox
8MB AGP but not the Siluro. Any ideas? Cant find bios update.

From the Presario Customer Communities home page:
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inform you that we are in the process of shutting down the communities in
the upcoming weeks. We look forward to serving you through our other online

Does anyone know the max processor speed this board will accept?
Best I can do is:
http://www.mitac.com/micweb/products/tyan/6513wu/6513wu.htm
which doesn't quite go that far.