I screwed up bigtime..I have a 7770dmt and I am familier with desktops
but laptops are new to me..
I booted and formatted an old 7770DMT laptop hard drive with a win98
startup disk in the floppy drive .And wasn't thinking.When it went to

Due to an 1801 Microcode patch error, I believe I need to reflash the bios
in my Compaq Deskpro 933, but obviously want to make sure I d/l the correct
bios. Looking at the HP/Compaq site it's not clear to me how to determine
this. Anyone have any suggestions?

I works at computer repair shop. Recently within a week, I received 3
Presario 2200 laptops from differrent customers. They all have the same
problem! Just dead. If you plug the power adaptor in and push the power
button. The battery light will flash once (or sometime three). I've

Just got a replacement mobo for a Compaq Deskpro EN P33. When attempting to
boot, I get an 1801 - Microcode Patch Error message  with an F1 To Boot in a
blue box at the bottom left corner.
When I hit F1 it doesn't successfully boot, it just goes through the same

I was recently given a Presario 4704. The specs are pretty lousy by
today's standards, only 16 megs RAM and a 1.5 gig hard drive and a 200
MHz Pentium 1.
I'd like to use it to play back VCD's. Is this feasible? If so, where

Putting a replacement mobo in a Compaq Deskpro EN PIII WinXP Home,
theoretically identical to the original mobo, will I have to reinstall the
O/S? Not sure if there are identifiers in a particular mobo that the O/S
needs to "see".

There is only one short beep after computer is booted up the the error
message comes on the screen ... 162 System Options not set.  Could
someone PLEASE help me out with this !  I am to the point of putting
a new meaning to "crash my computer"  :crybaby:  

Working on one of these old boxes, setting it up for home use, came across
this weird problem. If I leave the power cord in, even with everything else
disconnected, the machine still manages to boot itself up more or less 15
minutes after shutdown. I'm guessing PSU or motherboard ...

Sorry my last message posted before i finished.
I need a serial number for a compaq presario 2266/2278
I have a compaq presario 2266 and I am trying to do a system
restore using the original Compaq QuickRestore CD.

I am a moron. I have an old Compar 1200 XL505
The battery has been dead for a year now.
I purchased a new battery
The battery charges up ans says it is at 100%. Wehn I run on battery

I have a friend whose Compaq Presario recently crashed due to buildup
of viruses. The recovery partition did its job and the computer works
again - albeit slowly and with lots of freezing and glitches. I talked
to him and we decided to completely format the drive and reinstall

I know there are already a lot of posts about this error message, and
therefore I'm almost sure it has to be the CMOS battery  that causes
ther problem.
However, since the boot stops completely after giving this message (not

i cannot access BIOS of compaq deskpro 2000.

I have a 12-year-old Compaq Presario CDS 520 desktop machine that
(astonishingly) is still running after all these years - however, it's
recently become highly tempramental as to whether it wants to power up
or not, and I suspect the cause of this is that the CMOS battery needs