Does anyone know of a HP  newsgroup where technical questions can be
posted for feedback?

I have an old Compaq (7596) that until yesterday evening worked fine
BUT I have noticed that the floppy dirve was making some strange
sounds the last few days....
Anyhow now the word compaq flashes on the screen and I get a blinking

Hi! I want to install winxp on a 20 GB hitachi travelstar
put into a compaq armada 1560d notebook (166Mhz, 80mb ram).
Problem: cannot boot xp, 8GB lock from bios;
winxp detects 20 GB,

I have a Compaq ENS P450 with Windows98SE - where to finde the lastest
Windows 98SE driver for Compaq NC3161 Fast Ethernet NIC ? The driver I have
at the moment is from 5-5-1999 !! Is it a Intel network adapter?

Could anyone give me advise on whether I can upgrade my present M700 Laptop
without having to buy a new machine.
1) It only have 600 MHz, I would like to increase this if possible. Is this
possible and if so, how do I go about it?

i installed xp professional on my kids pc that came from compaq with a
visioneer 5800 usb onetouch scanner.
does anyone have one of  these devises and know how to get them to work
with xp professional on a compaq 5004us. i have been farting with this

I recently bought a used Compaq Deskpro EN.  It came with Win 2000
loaded and a recovery disk (not a full operating system.)  I bought the
computer with the intent to partition the drive and load Mandrake Linux
10.  I'm not familiar with Win 2000 and I have a full install of Win 98

DEJ57 Wrote:

I have a Compaq Presario 5225 computer. It came with an AMD K6-2 380
processor. Recently I replaced the processor with an AMD K6-2 533
processor I obtained off of EBay. It works except that the computer
still thinks it is a 380.

I have a S5000NX that was purchased last Christmas, with 128 megs RAM,
PC2100, according to specs.
If I want to upgrade and throw in a 512 DDR stick, is there any special ram
brand I need, or can any generic PC2100 stick work?

I have a compaq Deskpro EN.  I recenty did a system restore, but it did not
restore the video drivers for this system.  How do i fine out what video
controller  is in this system.   I went out to compaq, but it had a long
list of drivers for this type of system.  the system is out ...

I've got a compaq presario r3000z laptop, purchased in september 2004.
It won't read 1GB SD&MMC cards in the integrated card slots. Smaller
cards are fine, up to 256MB. I don't know about 512MB, as I haven't got
one that size to try. So far as I know I have the latest driver for the

can some please, please help me.
i just installed a new video card (sapphire atlantis 128se) into my kids
pc. i uninstalled the nvdia drivers then shutdown the system,removed the
old card, put in the new card in. i turn the machine on and there is no

My daughter-in-law has an S6000CL with integrated video. I am installing an
AGP video card to improve performance and just want to be sure of the
process. I have read conflicting information about disabling the onboard
video. Some have said that it will be disabled automatically ...

how can i tell if the bios for a persario 5004us is partial stored on  a
non dos partition.
does ant know of a link that i can look at. im searching hp/compaq's web
site now.