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 ...

I have a pentium 166mhz compaq presario 4712 sitting in my basement collecting dust. I would like to install mandrake linux on a spare maxtor 20gig drive in it, but I've run into some problems. In ...

The basic input/output system manages the operation of hardware in the HP Compaq dc7800. The PC allows users to make changes to the BIOS to alter how the computer and ...

QUESTION: I want to add a CD-ROM drive, but I cannot access the BIOS to add the drive. There is a Compaq setup program referenced on the Compaq Web site, but when I try it, it says that this program ...