Compaq

[jmecor]

Compaq : Com - F*ck,
They're lucky Hp bought them.

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[jmecor]

PDA only, that's what help them to survive in tech.

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<i>COMPUTERS</i> need <b>UPGRADES</b>; <i>UPGRADES</i> need <b>MONEY</b>,
"but" <b>MONEY</b> - heck, <i>it's no easy task. 😱 </i>
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[richardweights]

second post, i got one too( old p2), is this the support line???? help!!!, it would be nice if i could get a tnt 2 m64 agp to work, ah heck, on the up side it still runs an its good for beginners,"well hi to all", back to jumping through hoops

 

[rjwiley]

floppy drives???? uh no....
power supply???? uh no....
motherboard????? bios only.... but many computer manufacturers use there own....
usb connections??? uh no.....
power button???? uh no....
I suggest readin up or cracking open a computer before you just start slamming....

I may be a bit late on this, but better late than never.

Ok, here goes nothing...

I work for the company that handles the onsite service Compuke I mean Compaq uses for replacement parts. I have "cracked open" many many compaq computers and happen to fall under ZaNtHeR's requirement before one is allowed to start slamming.

With that said lets talk about the devices again.

floppy drives - Depends on the model, some have no faceplates because the bezel is the faceplate. You can pull it out and it would function just fine in any PC. It would just look like crap.

Power Supply - I'm not sure what they're using now, as I'm not doing the PC repairs anymore, but I know the one complained about in this message. This power supply has an AT like connector on it with another cable that is primarily orange and black wires. It's been so long since I've seen them, I forget what they're used for, but I have not see any other power supplies like it. It would work just fine for an AT MB if you had an old 486 or early Pentium you were still running, but the wattage on these power supplies are bare minimum to run the PC as it is, so I wouldn't trust it enough to put it in an older PC.

Motherboard - Well yes the bios of course. You can't configure much of anything in it at all. It also depends on the model, some are configured ATX and some are not. They are configured specifically for their case, which would probably work in another case if you just had the back panel removed altogether and you took the power supply with it.

As for USB connections and power button, well, it's been so long I really cannot comment them cuz I just can't remember how they're configured.

All in all, I think we all know that Compuke, I mean Compaq sux, so does HP, Dell, Gateway, IBM, Sony, and whoever else is still making prefab'd systems. Although Dell and Gateway are much better in the fact that the majority of their stuff is swappable. (Excluding MB)

BTW - Who else is still making "named brand" systems? Geez, I think a good majority has gone out of business.


Take Care,
RJ

 

[dcmopar10]

Ok i work for circuit city and we had this young lady that bough her computer with her own hard earned money, and 15 days later her hd crapat out, our return policy is only 14 days manager was a real a** he din't want to approved the return but what the heck we over rid it. But well thats not the point she exchanged it for a lil higher end one the sr1220 a think and she wanted to upgrade the ram on it, and when we opened the computer up to put more ram in it the stick that it already had in there was flying inside the case. Amasing compaq quality is not sux, i've also seen a couple of hp's cd rom drives crack cd's.

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[Pavelow]

My experience with Compaq is mixed. Here is my timeline:

Nov97: Purchased Compaq Presario 9660, P1 166mhz, 2gb Seagate, 32mb FastPageRAM, Floppy, 4x CDROM, and 15-in Monitor...$1300
Nov97: Found out no speakers, should come with the monitor like the package showed. Tech said speakers should be with the PC. NOPE...was not. Apparently I bought the previous year model PC where the speakers would be with the Monitor, but I bought the current year Monitor where the speakers were supposed to be with PC. Catch 22!!! The tech happened to also be a TSgt in my USAF. He stole speakers out of a box and handed them to me!
Mar98: Tried to upgrade to 2d/3d Diamond Stealth video card. Unable to turn off on-board video. Took the card back.
Mar98: Bought 12mb Wicked 3d Voodoo2 add on card. Worked no problem.
Mar98: CD-Rom Dies. Same USAF TSGt (Compaq Tech at AAFES) replaced it with 16x CD-Rom FREE.
Apr98: Upgrade to 104mbFPRAM. No other RAM will work on this MB. I get only a 15% increase in performance even after limiting my swap file.
May98: Hard drive fails. My Compaq tech, the USAF TSGt, replaces it for free.
Jun98: Bought PowerLeap 233mhz overdrive CPU with MMX on board. Only solution for CPU upgrade on the proprietary MB! Increase my performance about 10-12% even though I expected 20%.
Jul98: Tried to upgrade the sound with 16-bit SB ISA card. Brought my system to a crawl. Took back the card and had to live with 1/2 duplex onboard sound.
Aug98: Considered upgrading OS from Win95a to Win98. After several hours of reading the forum, I decided against it. Bottom line was Win98 was difficult to get going and slowed the system down.
Sep98: Upgrade with add-on 8.4gb WD HDD. Took several hours of reading the Compaq forum, but I got it to work after partitioning into four 2.1 gb drives.
Jun99: After looking at upgrade problems and proprietary items, decide to freeze this PC in time and wait to buy new PC
Mar01: Bought new Dell 8250, P4 2.4ghz, 512RDRAM, 120gbATA, 19-in monitor, etc. Nice.
Jan05: Both PCs still working fine and networked together with RJ-45 cross over. Everything is working on the Compaq. My wife does not want to give it up. She refuses to learn WinXP. She is in effect in Compaq twilight zone! Ha!

Pavelow

Dell 8250, i850e 4xAGP 2.4ghzCPU 512mbPC1066RDRAM 120gb & 200gbATA
GeF4MX420 SBL5.1 SamSung48xCDRW LiteOn851SDVDRW
RJ-45 to Compaq 9660, 233mhzCPU 104mbFPRAM 12mbVoodoo2 Win95a

 

[Zoron]

What's to 'learn' with WinXP? It's Windows... same thing with a slightly different look. However, even that can be changed so it looks like Win 2000 / ME. Tell her not to be afraid.

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[Patchworkblue]

Thanks for info.

Women--can't live with them, can't have heterosexual same-species intercourse without them.

 

[Lonewolf19]

EVERYONE I've know whose owned a compaq has had ridiculous amounts of problems with them. For your own sake and sanity, NEVER BUY A COMPAQ!!!