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Hoping for good advice from the assembled multitudes to help get my old
Compaq Presario rehabilitated:
This Presario 5000US has 2 internal HDDs, a CD player and DVD burner
onboard. I use the Compaq keyboard, a Logitech optical mouse and Dell
E173FPB flat panel monitor.
Situation: When I booted up the box, I saw the red Compaq logo and
WinME Splash Screen. Then I got a 16 color 480x640 resolution generic
Compaq background. The system booted, but there was no mouse pointer
on the screen and moving the mouse did not highlight any icons. I
switched to an old 9-pin roll ball mouse to the same result.
Using the Compaq recovery disk, I tried System Restore. I was told to
remove all diskettes and reboot. There was no change in the system.
My Emergency Boot diskette gave me an MS-DOS A:/ prompt. No help for
me there.
I ran msconfig and saw the system was in safe mode. I was able to
switch to regular mode. No change.
By running the Logitech driver diskette, I regained mouse
functionality. I ordered a system restore via the msconfig command.
The newest restorable checkpoint was 2 months old. Upon rebooting, I
was told that the system restore was unsuccessful. Several different
restore points gave me the same message.
I have tried to change color and resolution via Control Panel Display
Settings. Due to screen resolution, I cannot get to the "OK" or
"Apply" buttons at the bottom of the settings window. I have received
a message when closing this window that changes only are effective upon
reboot, but rebooting still givens me 16 colors and low resolution. I
have checked and the right monitor driver seems to be in place.
To make a long story endless:
I realize that I have some serious onboard issues and that drivers and
preference or HKEY files have become corrupted. I am trying to get the
resolution (and color) adjusted, so that I can try to work the system
back towards operability, run Pc-Cillan and other protection software,
etc.
1111. Any clues/ideas what gremlin has take up residence on this
computer? Would hauling the old Compaq CRT monitor out of storage make
sense, for any reason?
2222. I have an OEM Windows ME Systems disk. Is it possible to
restore the system without affecting all of the data files, pictures,
etc. on the hard drives? I realize that I will likely need to reload a
ton of program software, patches, etc. and this is acceptable, if need
be.
Again, thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions.
Hoping for good advice from the assembled multitudes to help get my old
Compaq Presario rehabilitated:
This Presario 5000US has 2 internal HDDs, a CD player and DVD burner
onboard. I use the Compaq keyboard, a Logitech optical mouse and Dell
E173FPB flat panel monitor.
Situation: When I booted up the box, I saw the red Compaq logo and
WinME Splash Screen. Then I got a 16 color 480x640 resolution generic
Compaq background. The system booted, but there was no mouse pointer
on the screen and moving the mouse did not highlight any icons. I
switched to an old 9-pin roll ball mouse to the same result.
Using the Compaq recovery disk, I tried System Restore. I was told to
remove all diskettes and reboot. There was no change in the system.
My Emergency Boot diskette gave me an MS-DOS A:/ prompt. No help for
me there.
I ran msconfig and saw the system was in safe mode. I was able to
switch to regular mode. No change.
By running the Logitech driver diskette, I regained mouse
functionality. I ordered a system restore via the msconfig command.
The newest restorable checkpoint was 2 months old. Upon rebooting, I
was told that the system restore was unsuccessful. Several different
restore points gave me the same message.
I have tried to change color and resolution via Control Panel Display
Settings. Due to screen resolution, I cannot get to the "OK" or
"Apply" buttons at the bottom of the settings window. I have received
a message when closing this window that changes only are effective upon
reboot, but rebooting still givens me 16 colors and low resolution. I
have checked and the right monitor driver seems to be in place.
To make a long story endless:
I realize that I have some serious onboard issues and that drivers and
preference or HKEY files have become corrupted. I am trying to get the
resolution (and color) adjusted, so that I can try to work the system
back towards operability, run Pc-Cillan and other protection software,
etc.
1111. Any clues/ideas what gremlin has take up residence on this
computer? Would hauling the old Compaq CRT monitor out of storage make
sense, for any reason?
2222. I have an OEM Windows ME Systems disk. Is it possible to
restore the system without affecting all of the data files, pictures,
etc. on the hard drives? I realize that I will likely need to reload a
ton of program software, patches, etc. and this is acceptable, if need
be.
Again, thanks in advance for any ideas or suggestions.