Why we pc tech's charge so much...

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:48 pm

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Death · Post by **Death** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:54 pm

omg is that a computer tower?! At first glance, I thought it was a monitor, then noticed the pci slots (or what appears to be).

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:58 pm

Yep, that's a PC tower with the side panel open, which aperently allows you to get into the computer.

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:08 pm

There's a reason Compaq hasn't built pc's like that in about 4 years

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:16 pm

Yeah no kidding. I've opened other compaqs and this one is the worse I've seen. Trying to find drivers for this dinosaur is also prooving to be difficult, especially since compaq no longer exists.

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rovingcowboy · Post by **rovingcowboy** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:47 am

did you try drivers dot com?

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:37 am

Compaq does still exist, believe it or not; it's just now a wholy owned subsidiary of HP. (Heck, if it didn't, I wouldn't have a Compaq Presario R3210CA that I bought after the merger)

Another driver suggestion is to browse over to the HP Canada site, click on Support and Drivers and where it gives you an option to search just put in Presario ****** where * is your model number.

Good luck

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tw2 · Post by **tw2** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:00 pm

HI Red
Work on one just like it the other day .glad you have the twin

mine was just a hard drive ,but you can still get drivers from HP not all but a few of them .what a pile of junk. good luck

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:43 pm

Managed to find them, someone at another forum just happened to know the exact drivers that model used. AC97 sound and intel graphics. This morning I power the thing on, BSOD.... I sooo don't miss win98, for it's random "I just feel like crashing today" moments. The best thing in win98 is scanreg /restore and sol.exe.

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tw2 · Post by **tw2** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:11 pm

yup nothing better then the BSOD to start your day off on the right foot .
it gets better as the day goes on ,as we all know

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