I have an old Compaq Deskpro. Not sure of the model number because
there is nothing specific written on the case. I got it to boot a few
times and it was running Windows 95, Pentium II (I think it was 450Mhz
but not sure), 32 mg RAM, 9-10 gb HD.

I had a disk read error on my Presario 2108US running XP Home and had to
reformat and reinstall the OS. It now will boot and run fine but it takes 25
minutes to boot. I'm serious, literally 25 minutes to boot. Once booted it
seems to run fine, not slow, connects to the Internet, ...

thats basically it...i just bought a laptop off of my friend...he had
never used headphones with it...it is a compaq r3240us...so whenever
i plug in headphones, the sound still comes out of the comp
speakers....im pretty good with computers and have messed with the

      I have a 6GB Seagate hard drive with an HP label on it.  I tried
adding it to my ancient Compaq 4506 with an existing 3.2 GB hard drive
but, alas,I encountered a problem.
I can't get the hp hard drive to be recognized!!!  And I don't mean

I have a Presario 710 US. It has an Athlon 1 Ghz processor, Windows XP, 256
RAM and a 20 Gb Hard drive.
I recently bought a used hard drive but it was having the same problem with
the old hard drive. I thought it might have been a bad hard drive so I tried

Hello, my name is Walter Maldonado. I am 15 years old and have
intermediate expertise in computing, except today when I had a
problem. I need an expert's hand with this. I installed a 802.11g
Wireless PCI card perfectly in my system, and I started having a

Any ways of either running the fans at lower speeds (I was thinking about
lowering voltage, since stopping the fans would cause a shutdown)
That machine will be in a rack, along with my switch, UPS and a home-made
disk array. So it doesn't need jet-engine fans to cool those 4 poor ...

I currently have a 40GB hard drive for this PC which is almost full. I
think it is an UATA100.  If I get another hard drive, can this model
PC only take AT100 and not AT133?  Is there any hard drive size
restriction?  It is a relatively old model.  What type of RAM can it

Hi, I have a Compaq Deskpro EP/C466 with an Intel 810 chipset. It is a
Celeron 466MHz with 256MB RAM. I am looking on the net about upgrading
the processor to a Pentiun III but couldn't find anything. It is too
difficult because it is an "old" computer.

I am working on a Compaq Presario 6000 desktop that would not start up
when brought to me. I found a complete set of Recovery CDs and ran them.
The PC set itself up then will not start back up after shutdown. The
error message says Windows was not shutdown normally and wants to ...

Hello there. I have a Compaq Deskpro EP C466 (Celeron), Intel 810
Chipset and I installed a Voodoo 3 2000 card and a 3COM 3C905C-TX
NIC.
Using Win2000 it works fine, without trouble. But when I try to use a

I'm going to expand my laptop's memory and I'm not sure what memory chip
I need. Should I buy 128MB SODIMM EDO or 128MB SODIMM SDRAM? It's
written in Manual that my notebook (Armada 1592DT) requires EDO DRAM
but I've heard that some motherboards accept both types (EDO and