How good are Compaq desktop machines now that they are a brand of HP?
I had very good luck with them when they were a separate company but
it's been several years since I purchased one.
-- David

I have a Compaq Armada 1540DM laptop.  I purchased an Ethernet PC card
for it about a month ago.  I used it that day and it worked fine.  A
week later, I noticed a strong smell coming from the laptop, and when
the screen comes on, in the right hand corner, the display area is

This is in regard to my N610c laptop computer.  The <Shift>, <Alt> and
<Ctrl> keys have failed to function.  An external keyboard plugged into
the back of the computer works fine.  I can get uppercase letters with
caps lock, but that doesn't get me the characters over the numbers ...

I have a Compaq DL580 and it was seeming to work ok when i first first
plugged it in after getting it home. It booted and i got video and it
errored about the drive controller... I didnt have all of the drive
slots populated at the time so that could have been the reason, im not

Is there any way to silence that horrible beep when switching on my
old Compaq LTE 5300 laptop? I've tried looking in the BIOS, but
couldn't find anything.
Thank you,

Hi everyone, I have a Compaq Presario 2700US which is giving me a big
headache. For some reason sometimes it won't boot up. Actually it
just does not turn on the screen but won't work with an external
monitor either. The cdrom starts reading and everything but the

I have 2 same Compaq Armada E500 laptops.
In one of them i lost the power-on password and i can't turn it on.
What can i do?

I'm reinstalling WinXP into an Armada E700 laptop for a friend.    It had
got messed up pretty bad, so had to reformat the hard drive and start from
scratch.
The Compaq LAN drivers (SP22996) will not install because "...there is no

I seriously want to get my Compaq armada m700 to run Windows 3.1.  I
have no clue how.  In messing around with it, I trashed my WinXP
partition, so let's assume that I'll be starting with a blank hard
disk.  Idealy, I would like to end up with Windows 3.1 running on a

Any help with these bugs, either causes or solutions?
1610 Presario 80mb ram.
system freezes requiring hard reboot when touchpad cursor is moved at same
time as keystroke. win98se system reports no conflicts. hardware

I keep getting numerous printer spooler errors after trying to print.  I
have windows xp operating system.  I did the misconfig to increase my
speed at startup and may have done something wrong.  Can someone help
please?  I have tried all of the help and support options and they ...

I am having trouble sourcing a power supply in the UK for my old Compaq
Armada 1750. Does anybody know where I can get one?
Cheers
Lenny

Flame on...
Well, I just "checked my status" for a PC I bought on Black Friday and
guess what:
(between the dashes = website info re 'my status' :)

Anyone who can share an ISO image of the QuickRestore CD for a Presario
5838?
Can't find me CD...
//Hans

My wifes computer was having a problem in that it would go to the sign on
(XP Professional), and then reboot after you sign on.  I took the 40Gig
Drive and put it in slot 2, and bought a new 80Gig Seagate Drive and put it
in slot 1.  I then used the 3 disk CD recovery set and loaded ...