Ars Technica

How to tell if Compaq put the BIOS on the hard drive?

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 ...
HeraldNet

H-P and Compaq PCs add portable hard drive

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 ...
Ars Technica

Will a Compaq Presario 1200 notebook take a 9.5 mm hard drive?

I don't know because I haven't been able to open the thing up yet, but I want to order a 20 gig IBM drive ASAP to replace the 6 gig drive it came with.<P>I think it takes a 9.5 mm drive from the ...
Houston Chronicle

How to Add a Solid-State Disk (SSD) to a Desktop Computer

Running a solid state drive on your desktop computer has several advantages over using a traditional hard drive. Your computer boots faster, shuts down much more quickly and programs open faster. In ...