Compaq

Hello there, recently I just got a computer from a friend of mine to be fixed. However, among the many laptops and desktops I've fixed, this is proving to be a rather strange one. It is a Compaq Presario CQ42-304AU, full specification and details of it can be found here ...

It is maybe 10 years old but I want to boost it a bit. I am thinking of a harddisk replacement, compile times are too long, hardly runs lubuntu, worse lite. Where to buy a compatible and fast harddisk ? Maybe ram too though I think 2gigs are fine.

Hello to all of you, I have a laptop that has gone crazy without having seen something like that before, I've done all the classic tests to see if she has anything but everything does the same I tried out first by removing the charger and the battery (and cmos battery) I left holding down for...

Hello,  since my HP Compaq 2510p battery is now completely wide, I am looking for a replacement. Although Google spits out several things really seriously not seem to me to some pages but.  www.all-laptopbattery.com/hp-compaq-2510p.html although such does not look wrong, but a missing address...

I got a Compaq persario c500 plug in chArger the charge light flashes hit power button it wont power on

I have a compaq laptop I tried resetting it well now nothing comes on the screen you can hear it running but the screen stays black and doesn't do anything

i have been having this laptop from my childhood and i have a sentimental emotion towards it.recently it has slowed down.it has an AMD procesor.can somebody pleae tell me whether it is posible to upgrade my processor and ram??????????

I want to play GTA 4 on Compaq presario cq45 laptop and I am a big fan of it please give the reply yes or no if no then what I should do to play it

I have an old laptop which beeps incessantly upon booting. I figured out that a stuck space key is what causes this. I tried disabling it using MapKeyboard (described here: http://blog.enrii.com/2007/11/25/disable-a-certain-key-in-your-keyboard/) but it still kept beeping when I restarted it. Do...

So I have had this laptop for over a year, and recently the screen on it starts flickering and glitching whenever I try to move it. It shows that it is trying to output something but its virtually impossible to tell what it is. I connected it to an external screen and that screen is fine.

I have an old Compaq NC6000, it works but I suspect the battery is getting weak. I can't find anything online that explains all the information in the battery status in the BIOS setup. BSN, obviously the serial number of the battery 00159, and the date 10/14/2004. Then there's C1 C2 C3 ME CC T...

I picked up a Compaq Armada 1750. How can I get past the corporate login?

Hello, I have a HP Compaq 6820s laptop with Core 2 Duo T5470 cpu in it. I would like to replace it with something better because it feels slow. The 4 best cpus that are listed in manual are : T7700, T7800, T8300, T9300. However, there is one that isn't listed in manual, the T9500. Basically...

and occasionally when it isnt plugged in. iv also had some issues with it running the cpu, disk, and memory at 100%, even after going and disabling bucket loads of stuff,. it wont turn on when its plugged in, and iv got to try a handful of times to get it to come on when running battery power...

I'm new at trying to fix tech things and I am wondering if someone can tell me : Will a Compaq Presario CQ60 410us lcd screen display fit into an Asus K52F BIN6 and work properly? Thank you for helping. I tried looking all the specs up and compare, but I have no idea if it will fit.

Hello there, I am having some issue with my old Hewlett-Packard Compaq 6910p, the issue are as below: 1: The wi-fi was disabled after a major service and I am having trouble to re-enable it. I have browsed the internet for solution but still no luck, none of it work. 2: The chipset was very hot...

I have a old laptop hp compaq cq42 and I want to ude it as a desktop monitor

I got a HP Compaq 615 and I wanna improve it's wifi connection and I found this dongle on ebay http:// Is it faster than the one in my compaq? I want it to be as small as possible and that dongle seems pretty small so yea...

I have reinstall window 7 32bit on my laptop model compaq persario CQ 57 TU 300.but unable to find network adapter driver.please suggest

My laptop is a Compaq 615 with 2gb of ram I wanna add another 4gb to get 6gb...

Looking for a way to increase volume without earphones or external speaker. I have working laptops, both of which have insufficient volume for my use. Both of them are running Win 7. I'm looking for a way to boost the volume so I can watch movies, videos and listen to audio books. I would...

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Compaq presario r3000 onstalling window xp home but no disk drivers on hard drive and corrupted files

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Hello Tom's I think my computer may be a bot-net for a DDoS attack. Is it safe to keep my HDD (with steam games, LOTS OF PERSONAL FILES, ect intact and just Wipe the OS drive and re-install windows? Or does every drive have to be wiped clean? Even if I'm not part of a bot-net, I still like...

i got a HP compaq 615 it doesn't work it turns on but only fan spinning and 5 capslock blinks can i use the re-flowing method to fix it? i tried resetting the cmos but that did not work for me So re-flowing it is i guess

Any recommendations for adding an external GPU and PSU for an HP Compaq 6000 Pro SFF? Looking for a 2 GB card and at least a 1000 watt power supply if possible. Full specs: http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=4024462&docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-c01883661...

cannot find how to start my webcam please explain how computer novice so simple terms please

I have H.p Compaq nc6320. No display only mute and power l.e.d are working no start sound nothing. And the mute button is won't turning off after pressing it. It becomes completely unresponsive. I reassembled it but no luck I also try to heat up the GPU chip with a hair dryer but nothing. I also...

Hi ya i am tryng to reset my laptop compaq cq61 to its factory setting by pressing F11 but it says no operating system found

Compaq Presario C700 I have replaced the LCD screen and the inverter. The screen flickers ALWAYS, even while posting through BIO and safe mode screens. Any ideas?

After putting in my password the screen just shows a loading welcome sign and doesn't go to another screen on my compaq presario cq50?

I have a compaq laptop that i received a few years ago and i want to take the pictures from the photo gallery and export them to another device, but I don't know how.

My hp laptop recently has stopped working after being played for 10 hours straight. It couldn't be the adapter because I've tested it working fine. Can anybody suggest me what can i do to fix this problem? The laptop has power light for 0.2 second, no fan, has charging light before powering...

I installed a new cpu into my compaq presario cq60 and when it turns on it dosent fully load and just shuts down. I have tried this with the battery out but it still dosent work any help would me great

After Power Down the orange WiFi & HD Lights Stay on my Compaq CQ61. Will run the battery down. Have changed battery. Didn't notice when this started. Everything else works fine.

So I have an old laptop that has been owned forever pretty much. I know it's old but I would still like to salvage it. It came with Windows 98 but it has since been upgraded to Windows 2000 Professional about a decade ago. It started getting blue screen errors about some hive file error or...

I undid the screws on my Compaq laptop but the bottom is not moving. It is buzzing so I hoped cleaning the fan will help. What needs to be done in addition to screws removed? THANKS.

Another question about my thrift-shop-find Compaq Presario 12XL300. I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Windows Me on the laptop, but something that didn't cross my mind was drivers. I searched Google for drivers for this laptop, and the top result was a Compaq/HP website, but it said "Model...

Need step-by-step instructions (& pictures) to disassemble and clean Compaq 6910p laptop

Compaq Presario 1800T is an old laptop I know, but I really want to try to get it working again. My issue is there's nothing on the screen, and external VGA isn't working. Since HP isn't showing all the laptop's specs, here is some of them. - Pentium III proc. - ATI 3D Rage M-128 If you need a...

I am currently wanting to upgrade my son's Compaq Presario CQ61 411WM laptop to 4gb of RAM from 2gb and I also want to possibly upgrade the current graphics card in it, which is the ATI Radeon HD 4200. What are my options? It lags so bad since upgrading to WIn 10, which I am now majorly...

Hi, i am using a laptop CQ42-168TU cpu is core i3 M 350 which gets 90 degrees celcius within a few minutes after starting windows 7 and becomes very slow. if i reinstall windows, it works smoothly for some weeks then the same temp problem occurs. what could be possibly wrong with the laptop...

i need to find the wifi button since i looked around the internet and it says most likely my wifi switch is off but i dont know where that is please help also the internet connection works when i connect it to ethernet

cant turn on compaq evo n800c

I just got this. I turned it on, it worked. I turned it off and back on it worked. I turned it off again now, I get the HP Screen which says "PRESS ESC FOR STARTUP MENU". If you press nothing it goes to a black screen with a flashing grey _ in the top left corner. How can I get this to boot...

I need help. I don't know the power on password. I can't even boot from a CD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj1KqhiRc3I

I have an old power adapter I found it is a hipro hp a0652R3B can I use this with my sb 100 compaq computer ?

so i've had this laptop for years and used to get games online (such as minecraft, terraria, the binding of isaac, etc.), but ever since someone did something to "make the laptop run faster", i can't even download certain things, and most of the low-requirement games i have wont even start. does...

hi, i have compaq presario cq42 and my problem is when you press start button, light at the power button and wifi button(F12) is on, but the screen was blank. and the light still remaining on without any blinking or flashing..already try to press delete and F1 button but still not function...

After hanging it got overheated , removing power supply is only solution to restart it.

How do I reset my Compaq CQ60-61DX NOTEBOOK

e r d f these keys don't work on my key boad any suggestions please?

I have two old laptops- First one is a compaq presario v6000 core2 duo (prob: gets too slow most times, sometimes has issues connecting to wi-fi) Purchased in 2008 Second one is a dell vostro core2 duo, (prob: screen hinge damaged, gets slow at times) My main work is to write reports for a...

After installing windows 8, my graphics appears blur. this i believe is associated with the low vga capacity of my laptop

Hello everyone. I have this laptop, but the main battery is dead and it works only while plugged. So my problem is that everytime I unplug computer, and then plug it again and start, it shows me an error "163-Time & Date Not Set", and then the time is 00:00 1.1.1980. I already replaced RTC...

i m very new to this field but love to do experiments on computer's but this time i'm afraid of as this laptop belong to my friend...so please if someone read this so please reply how to fix a "PRODUCT INFORMATION IS NOT VALID"....should i go with changing os or updation or Anything else...

I'm new at computers. Just learning. It's an Intel Pentium and has Windows Vista. I was learning to use it, I took a break, closed the lid, and then later when I lifted nothing displayed on the screen. I don't understand 'FEED'.

Hi , i have a hp compaq presario cq61 and when i turn it on, the screen is black. I was looking the beep codes for hp but didnt found anything. Caps lock and num lock led beeps goes like this: beep..beep..............then nothing then again beep..beep..... and it goes on like this. Hope you guys...

So I've got this old Compaq Presario C500 from a customer. I went to boot it, I can hear the fan come on, the hard drive sounds like it's spinning up, but nothing ever really starts. No BIOS beeps, nothing on the screen, it just never gets to POST. I've Googled around and one suggestion is a...