Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs. Replacing an IDE drive is ...

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Desktop Windows PCs have become boring commodity devices whose designers generally display as much ingenuity and boldness as politicians in an election year. If you think of George W. Bush and John ...

I recently got my hands on an older Compaq computer, more precisely, their Presario 5140. Now, I was hoping to replace the hard drive and put Win98SE and Redhat Linux on there to dual boot. It came ...

The Compaq Presario SR5510F ($430 direct) is cheap, has a lot of space in its hard drive, and is basically the computing equivalent of an order of McDonalds' Chicken McNuggets. Like the nuggets, the ...

Tens of thousands of Compaq PC users face potential compatibility problems with Microsoft's recently released Internet Explorer 4.0 Tens of thousands of Compaq PC users face potential compatibility ...