Posts by crewguy

Compaq C500 laptop won't turn on. When I plug in the charger the charge LED lights solid for just a millisecond, then flickers.I completely disassembled the unit, down to the main board. I removed the charger port from the unit and...

This drive is from an HP Pavillion. It is a Sata II 250 gig. My problem is- I don't know which replacement drive to order from Newegg. The pinout is different from my other HP, in that this one uses a different method to connect to the...

Jsut got this lappy. Need mor ram. 256 in now. What type and amount ofram can I go to with this lappy? I think it has a P750 CPU.

Here's a great big Thank you to those that contributed to this thread. I completed the reformat and XP install on my Gateway yesterday. Everything is all good now!