bump (sorry, my father is desperate to get it working..)

The model is Compaq 1700T.
Thanks.

Can anybody help? The comp doesnt have built in wifi, so it needs the whole router set. I have that...but it doesnt wanna work!

Tried it...it couldnt find anything..

Hi,
My uncle gave my dad an old compaq laptop, and I have a dlink router+adapter to use with it (my uncle used the same model before too.)
I reinstalled windows on it so now its a fresh xp media...

Sorry i didnt respond. It was overheated.

My sister has a strange issue with her Vista laptop. 2 days ago her firefox froze up and then the whole laptop shut down, but everything was fine since. Today, it happened again, then when she booted...

Prety much just XP.
Im using SP2 disk.
Its currently formatting at his house, like complete format.

Hey, Im donig this for a friend.
I inserted the XP cd and the setup popped up. But it wont let me click on Install windows XP (i wanted to select upgrade). So I created a new partition with 10 GB of...

Desktop
XP Media Edition
SP2.

Ok hi, im back again.
Im getting a BSOD every like 10 minutes sometimes, since my comp was turned off for the night right now it works ok, but who knows, it can happen any second.
I wrote down the...

solved. Had to push the CPU cooler harder in.

I did...its solved nvm

Hey guys
I got a huge problem. Yesterday I had to shut off my computer because before it was on stand by but when i turned it on i had to enter a password for my user which i dont have, it does that...

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Hey, remember me? I'm back with no signal! *dun dun dun dun* *dramatic music*

I rebuilt my computer... Heres what I've changed:

New Motherboard: Asus P5N-E Sli
New Video Card: e-GeForce 8600GT...

Lol. Well I'm outta here ^_^ Thanks all ! :P

Lol you too. Thanks Caperjack and Scott Burry!

I am extremely happy to click on the link "Mark As Solved". I have messed around with the Ribbon Cable and guess what? I start seeing the names of my hard drives pop up all over while the computer...

look you guys have been most helpful. in one day i went to 3 places. Got banned on one for no reason O.o, on the other one noone ever replied on the other but here i got lots of help. Now I know...

uh huh yeah thanks thats helpful. I guess ill just go ask on some other forums then.

okay what can i do right now?

it tells me "No IDE Drives found!" then when I go to Setup (BIOS?) It says first master or something [Not detected] or something like that, and etc. They cant be dead for no reason like that. MY ram...

Allright guys great news and progress. Scott Burry - THANK YOU VERY MUCH for the alcohol tip. I have done that to all my RAM chips and my 512 chips are back and working well, 1 gig, wohoo! Now the...

okay well the problem is that I dont have a harddrive i can spare..so yeah thats kinda bad. Ill see what i can do.

I know my monitor is working, but how am I supposed to reload windows XP if I can't see anything?! I'm confused about the whole RAM thing thats what.

hah you're pretty much right but not yet.

As for the hard drives... Well Im gnna need to get one first, but before i even do that i have to get my monitor to work again.

Also its just weird how...

well what ive learned is that my ram is DDR...i cant seem to find my other 512 MB ram chip which i considered to be broken, and it probably is. The otherone was DDR and the other 2 128MB chips and..4...

Well...I took one of them out, at first it didn't work then the other one out and the other one in and..it worked..thats all I did..

PS: The tower...arent they're all in the tower right now? And...

Allright
Caperjack - I had a hardware failure where my HD crashed, motherboard was making constant beeps. I had 1 HD back then with 2 partitions. Thats when I bought a new HD and made 2 more...

whoa whoa slow down. Can you explain kinda more detailed about your suggestion? And once again i think my monitor went down again, so i might need to use the 64 mb chips now?
And btw, can you give...

wait, what if i try to rebuild it by putting a different motherboard in? Maybe that will work? I mean its definatly not the processor, hard drives video card or sound or ethernet card, lol, what else...

oh crap...i just have nothing to say...just oh crap..

what caused the hard drive problem anyway? I mean its kinda weird...and the no signal thing that i got again...i really dont want it to be that i killed my second ram chip but...

no it didnt do anything it just said The volume contains one or more unrecoverable problems..

omg omg omg omg no no no no what happened again! I decided to turn my computer off so i typed exit and then when it exited it gave me NO SIGNAL and went blank i turned it off through the power supply...

Sorry i dont find here an edit function but heres what i found
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/chkdsk.mspx?mfr=true
and honestly im confused...i need...

One more thing: I typed in "chkdsk" and it said "The volume contains one or more unrecoverable problems".

btw...what does the /f stand for..?

allright..."The parameter is not valid. Please try /? for help" or somehting like that..and i dont get it.

Just one thing... before where you type stuff it says C:\>. The disk where my windows is...

thanks ill do that now. stay around!