Hello all...
I have a number of Compaq Deskpro 686P2, 686P3 and Evo D500, 510
series (686O2) systems. All of these seem to be pretty closely
related, and all of them have a setting in the BIOS known as the

I've had assistance here lately with my Deskpro EN SFF 886.  I had
been ignoring a sound like the hard drive switching itself on and off
for a little while now and tonight it sems the power supply has
blown.  There was a small pop and a smell of burning and the green

One of the donated computer I have on my work bench a HP XE783, the
donator removed the hard drive and the hard drive holder/carrier.
If you have an older HP in your parts bin I would like to aqquire the
hard drive holder/carrier part, so I can complete the repair of this

Hello again.  With the RAM replaced, and tests checking out, the
Compaq is working fine and I'm sure noticeably smoother.  I just
wanted, though, to check something about the RAM I was sent.  It says
SFRAM - usually it's SDRAM isn't it?  Is this okay?  The chip is about

I recently bought some eBay RAM from someone with a good rep there,
100%.  I've had the chip in for about 10 days and I thought everything
was fine.  It seems to show up, i.e from when I first put it in and
the BIOS amended itself.  And it shows up as having gone from 256 mb

I recently wrote looking for a replacement board for a Desktop
Presario 5700N.  Here's more details.  The Compaq replacement # is
1206595-102 which looks compatible with just about every   5700-series
model.  Thanks DKline

When trying to start it, on battery or AC, the blue power on light o
the button blinks on and off as does the whirring sound of the fan
Sometimes it does start and eventually freezes up or shuts itself off
I've pulled out each of the memory modules (2 256 modules) one at a tim