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I really don't want to mess with the bios on his machine. I'd rather just get another 80 gig drive. I know it will recognize that. I just am wondering if it will accept a 100 gig drive without updating the bios.

In addition to the reset button I would like to know how I can find out if this mobo will recognize a 100 gb hhd. My friend would like a second drive and I see a sale for a 100g seagate for $40 after rebate. Anyone know if this mobo can accept a larger drive without updating the bios? Thanks

You can use any brand RAM that corresponds with the motherboard. It is most likely PC133 SD RAM, but it could be PC100 SD RAM No it's the PC133 .... so a micron memory should work fine correct? One other thing I am noticing. The power switch. This model doesn't have a reset button and the case I ordered does. There are far more pins on the mobo than wires on the plug to the power switch. I'm wondering if I can get it to reset? I'm quessing since it doesn't have a reset button, then compaq didn't put anything on their board for a reset button. Thoughts, comments? Thank you for your t

Gotta ya ...... can anyone tell me if I can use a brand name memory to upgrade this machine or will the compaq mobo only see compaq memory? Thank you for your time.

Yeah your probably right about damaging it. I'll go out and get a can of that air spray today. Thanks for the help. When I get the case and swap things over I will let you know how it turned out.

Your link to the example micro ps was to a different page. I was wondering about getting a ps that fit their case with over 250 watts. Thanks for that info. My friend has a more powerful video card that the original I according to a power calulator he need at least 350 watts.I have no plans to change the mobo. All I want to do is take out the inners of this compaq and put it into a case with a 400watt ps. I can understand why I would have to reinstall the OS if I change the mobo. I just couldn't see why I would have the reinstall the OS for swapping cases. I still would like to get inform

Why do I have to reinstall the OS? I was told if the PS burns out it would not damage anything. According to them everything should be as it was. There should be no reason to reinstall the OS. What would wipe it out? I only want to remove the fan to clean it and the heat sink .... nothing more. I don't see how it would effect the OS.

So I have to ask....why are you going thru so much trouble for an easy fix??? It's so much easier to modify the existing case to fit the new PS than it is to swap cases out, and it will, as Pete mentioned, cause you other troubles down the road. The Chassis is an integral part of the system and changing this out with another is going to cause it to not be recognized by your recovery CD, thus losing your OS install capabilities. I think you're going about this in a completely wrong way here, and my advice is to STOP before you go too far and really bugger things up! It will be easier to look ar

Anyone know how to remove the heat sink and fan? It's pretty grimy and dirty. I think it should be cleaned. I tried to get information from the chat live tech with compaq, but he wanted me to take it to a service center. .... not ...... This is a wierd heat sink. It's round. I've only seen square ones. There is a green clamp over the top, I try to see how to move it, but I don't want to get out of hand and break it. I want to know for sure how to remove it. If you have any info on this let me know. I search the site and could find nothing. The tech said they didn't have any online manual w

I have the link. The model is different, you can see in the picture. It is some help, but no information on how to remove the hhd in my model. Thanks anyway. UPDATE ..... I got the hhd out. There was a screw on the side of the first rack, then I had to swing it like opening a panel from the side then pull it out of the slots in the second rack. Same procedure with the second rack and out came the drive with it! Now I'm still working figuring out the slides holding the other drives. ANOTHER UPDATE ..... Okay I got the drives out! It was a matter of holding the tabs in on the front of

Yes! That's it exactly! Were did you find it? Does it have information on how to remove the drives and HHD? Pulling out the hardware is going to be harder than I thought. The hhd is vertical for one thing and the rack that holds the floppy is blocking me from sliding the hhd up. There is a back on the rack so sliding the hhd up is the only way to remove it. The racks holding the floppy and other drives might be welded together. I can't tell for sure. Rivets are definately attaching it to the front of the steel frame holding the rack in place. The case panel slides off it's not like the m

It looks like there are a lot of plastic guides that have to be push back I think. I might need an extra set of hands!

My friend has this case. So far I haven't been able to find a photo of the case. His power supply failed and it is expensive to replace the supply with compaq's model. I thought it would be better to change out the case with another with a higher power supply. Now that I have the case from my friend I don't see how to get the DVD, CD or Floppy out. It has some kind of plastic slides attached instead of screws. I don't see how to get the front case panel off, to see if I can get the hardware out that way. Are there anyone with exprience opening compaq cases? Can you show me how to get th

My friend says he wants UBS ports in the back and front .... are there any cases like that on this site to fit his hardware or are the UBS in the back are on the mobo? Thanks for the link

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Thanks for the link. I found the replacements, but the price is too high. It would be cheaper to purchase another case. Now I need to know what case I can use. This is a Compaq Presario 5330US. Here is a link giving the specs. I'm considering this case ..... will it fit? Also is there a chance that other components were damaged? Thank you for your time.

My friends have a Compaq Presario 5000 series. Their power supply burned out. Is it possible other components were damage? Also I've tried searching for a replacement power supply. The way the case is made the screws won't line up with any PS they have to get the replacement from Compaq, but so far I haven't had too much luck finding it. This is the replacement # 255712-002. It's suppose to be a 250 Watt supply, but I get a 235 watt with that number. How can I find a replacement? Also if a replacement is too costly I was thinking of buying a new case with power supply, that way I can go

When I did that it would only state that the device is unknown ..... anyway I found the drivers I installed the software for the mobo and that clear up everything. The device manager is happy now. Thanks

No there is a - sign with a yellow question mark next to "Other Devices" below that there is another question mark with an exclaimation mark over it and it states "PCI Device". That's all she wrote. Another question ..... do you know if windows 2000 pro has a firewall? If so where is it? If not can you recommend a freeware program? Thanks

In the device manager it is located under "other" devices. I don't know what it wants, or what it is. :confused:

I'm not sure ..... .... I don't think I have one .... it's the device manager that say I don't have a driver for it, but it doesn't specify want PCI device I need.

I just installed windows 2000. The device manager shows that I don't have a driver installed for the PCI device. I checked windows update with the reinstall driver wizard, but it could not find it and I have no software for it as far as I know. I checked the driver site, but found nothing. Where do I get the driver for this? Thank you for your time. PS .... sorry about the double post .... when I first tried to post I got a "page not found" message, so I did it again and got the double post.

Yes I'm begining to suspect it's a hardware problem. That is usually the reason xp will lock up. He says at times the autoplay icon will pop up looking for a cd to play. I forget how to you get xp to go to the bios? I though it was the delete key, but it's not. I think I can talk him through that. I will end up telling them of a friend in their area to call for help or go there myself to check it out. Thanks

My friend isn't comfortable with opening the computer that is something I would do and I live over an hour away and don't know when I will come into town.

My friend has windows xp home edition. He says when it boots up it tries to read the cd drive yet there is nothing there and it keeps trying reading it, then locks up. My friend says his activtities are limited. No matter what he does it locks up. He ran AVG, ad-aware and spybot and found nothing. Could it be a driver issue? Could the cd rom be going bad? I don't know the whole situation so if you need more information let me know and I will contact my friend and post the information.