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Name: sims
Date: September 14, 2009 at 13:40:04 Pacific
OS: WINDOWS XP
Subcategory: Hardware Problems
Comment:

hello sirs my compact presario 5000 hangs up after memory count



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Response Number 1
Name: mavis007
Date: September 14, 2009 at 14:46:56 Pacific
Reply:

... download, burn and bootup with this:

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-...

... it'll test your memory chips!

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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer
Date: September 14, 2009 at 15:09:30 Pacific
Reply:

Confirm in the bios the hard drive is seen.


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Response Number 3
Name: sims
Date: September 14, 2009 at 16:32:19 Pacific
Reply:

thanks my dear firiends memory count it's okay further post hangs an blinking cursor kee[s on blinking a the right uppuer corner with '' COMPAQ '' logo in the screen
................no further post


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Response Number 4
Name: sims
Date: September 14, 2009 at 16:43:55 Pacific
Reply:

Hi wanderer,
Memory count it's okay.(exact amount of memory 255)
After memory count, blinking cursor swith to upper right corner
and it converts into a blinking block
and it hangs....... no further posting
This remains like this with ''COMPAQ'' logo in the center of the monitor
Other suggestion please?
thanks

sim


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Response Number 5
Name: larryf215
Date: September 14, 2009 at 17:49:02 Pacific
Reply:

"Confirm in the bios the hard drive is seen."
did you do this? your answer suggest you didn't.
PS:
hard drive & memory, are not the same thing

larry


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Response Number 6
Name: sims
Date: September 14, 2009 at 22:25:20 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Larryf215,
there is no way I can get into the bios setup my dear friend.

* system starts with COMPAQ logo run memory count, cursor(block) start blinking at the upper right corner of the monitor and keeps blinking no keyboard response.... nothing.

Any other suggestion please, I'll appreciate my friends

Thanks

Sim.


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Response Number 7
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 01:28:03 Pacific
Reply:

... tap <F10> key @ bootup to enter your bios!


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Response Number 8
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 06:57:48 Pacific
Reply:

Hi.My friend mavis007,
Thanks for your advise but still no F10 repsonse @ bootup
to enter BIOS

Any other suggestion please?

Thanks

Sim


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Response Number 9
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 07:14:52 Pacific
Reply:

... press <Alt> <Ctrl> <Esc> at boot when you see the "Compaq" logo in big letters ... source


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Response Number 10
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 07:24:33 Pacific
Reply:

Hi,my dear friend mavis007 ....still no response after pressing

<Alt> <Ctrl> <Esc> at boot when the COMPAQ appears

Any other suggestion please?

Thanks

Sim


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Response Number 11
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 07:34:23 Pacific
Reply:

... are you pressing ALL three @ same time?


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Response Number 12
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 07:40:25 Pacific
Reply:

Press the F1 key if your computer was built before 2006

laptop ... more

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Response Number 13
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 07:45:24 Pacific
Reply:

Yes,Mavis007 all together at the same time
Thanks

Sim.


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Response Number 14
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 07:47:58 Pacific
Reply:

Hi,Mavis007
No response with F1
I tried this out with to different keyboards

Thanks

Sim.


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Response Number 15
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 08:02:06 Pacific
Reply:

... how old is the laptop?


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Response Number 16
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 08:29:47 Pacific
Reply:

Hi, mavis007
It's not a laptop my dear friend
Its a
COMPAQ PRESARIO 5BW250 5000 SERIES TOWER
OPERATING SYSTEM IS WINDOWS ME
Any other information please feel free to ask

thanks

Sim


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Response Number 17
Name: wanderer
Date: September 15, 2009 at 08:45:59 Pacific
Reply:

flashing cursor means you lost the master boot record. This would indicate the drive is seen but could be damaged or infected with a virus.

Do you have the ME disks?

Might want to boot up on a boot floppy or knoppix cd to look at the drive contents.
You can also download a boot disk from bootdisk.com that contains Fdisk and SYS [ME's version]. You would then fdisk /mbr and then sys c: to restore the master boot record and ME boot files.


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Response Number 18
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 08:46:26 Pacific
Reply:

... same question .... its age?

... when was the cmos bios battery changed last? ... they'll last 5 years max!

... its a little watch battery size ... sounds like your best bet!


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Response Number 19
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 08:58:18 Pacific
Reply:

Okay Mavis007
No .... ME disk !!
I changed the battery it's is a brand new backup battery my friend.

please give me the link for downloading boot disk
is it possiblle to get a bootdisk using my ME product key?
is it possible to make a bootablle CD ?
thanks for your advices it seems I'm almost reaching where the problem is
thanks

Sim.



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Response Number 20
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 09:38:34 Pacific
Reply:

... http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

... above is for boot floppies

... try "Response Number 1" download link to make a bootable cd to test your memory or had you forgotten about that?


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Response Number 21
Name: sims
Date: September 15, 2009 at 10:05:53 Pacific
Reply:

Okay my dear friend mavis007,
I will check my memory first ''response number one''
that's great
how about bootable CD for Fdisk and SYS is this possible?
may the same bootle disk of ''response number one'' will help me out with the other issues like ................
Fdisk or SYS [Me's version]......?

Thanks


Sim.


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Response Number 22
Name: wanderer
Date: September 15, 2009 at 11:00:18 Pacific
Reply:

changed the battery? When did you do this? Before or after you got the blinking cursor?

if after the battery change then its because you didn't set the hard drive in the bios to the correct one.
go back into the bios and set the hard drive. Hopefully it has an autodetect feature or you will have to pull the hard drive to id its size, cylinders, heads, spt settings.


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Response Number 23
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: September 15, 2009 at 11:04:11 Pacific
Reply:

This looks a little bit confusing....on the origional post the OS says XP and now you are working on ME?

Have you tried physically removing the dialup modem to see if the PC boots up properly?

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Response Number 24
Name: wanderer
Date: September 15, 2009 at 12:31:22 Pacific
Reply:

XpUser4Real yours is the only post in this thread that mentions a modem. Off topic?


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Response Number 25
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 14:06:57 Pacific
Reply:

... even "golden" reg's manage to post in wrong forum's

... guess we can blame that on teething problems

... "off topic" .. I responded to a problem suggesting that the op remove the wifi card .... my response was deleted (yellow triangle) although my research showed the problem caused severe system lagg , removal solved it for others!


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... thats removal of the card .....lol


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Response Number 26
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: September 15, 2009 at 15:06:15 Pacific
Reply:

Hey Wanderer:
>>XpUser4Real yours is the only post in this thread that mentions a modem. Off topic?<<

Not really. Boy this is a touchy post I guess. A 'faulty modem' has stopped a PC from booting up before. In fact, it happened in one of my repairs where the COMPAQ logo just hung up on start up..after I physically removed it the PC booted up fine.

Hey Mavis:
>>... even "golden" reg's manage to post in wrong forum's

... guess we can blame that on teething problems<<

are you having those types of problems?


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Response Number 27
Name: mavis007
Date: September 15, 2009 at 15:22:15 Pacific
Reply:

... ME in xp forum

... not really a problem for me "XpUser4Real"

... C/N teething probs although are improving


... peace and love to all ... !

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Response Number 28
Name: sims
Date: September 17, 2009 at 04:59:22 Pacific
Reply:

Hi, my friend Mavis007
thanks for all your suggestions
I'm trying to get a original Me Disk
to tryout your suggestion ... Fdisk an SYS (ME version)
I will send you information about this during the day,

Thanks mavis007 and all the other persons who gave their suggestions
I appreciated so much.
Yours Kindly

Sim.


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Response Number 29
Name: mavis007
Date: September 17, 2009 at 05:35:21 Pacific
Reply:

... hi "sims" there are some boot cd (only) iso's in link below they should have fdisk etc built in same as floppy, they may even through those files to a ram drive @ bootup(?)

http://www.allbootdisks.com/downloa...

... download free iso burning software from "mirror 8 below:

http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?ac...


... good luck!


...ps ....fdisk etc @ Response Number 17 was NOT my suggestion!.... read the "name"


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Response Number 30
Name: sims
Date: October 18, 2009 at 14:24:21 Pacific
Reply:

HELLO MAVIS
STILL WITH THE SAME PROBLEMI TRIED EVERYTHING
BUT SYSTEM IS NOT BOOTING
AND STILL NO KEYBOARD RESPONSE.....SO IT'S DIFFICULT TO HIT ANY KEY(ESC-F1-F2)
TO GET INTO THE BIOS SETUP

HOPING YOU HAVE MORE INFORMATION OR TRICKS FOE ME, I REMAIN
YOURS KINDLY
THANKS
SIM


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Response Number 31
Name: mavis007
Date: October 18, 2009 at 22:38:03 Pacific
Reply:

... did you download the "ME" boot cd iso from link in Response Number 29 and bootup with the created cd and type:

Fdisk /MBR [and pressed enter] ?

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Response Number 32
Name: sims
Date: October 19, 2009 at 06:48:59 Pacific
Reply:

HELLO MAVIS
THANKS FOR YOUR FAST RESPONSE I APPRECIATE
SYSTEM HANGS IT WON'T BOOT
NO ME DISK BOOT UP !!!!
SYSTEM JUST REMAIN IN HANG MODE
NO KEBOARD RESPONSE .....NOTHING
I THINK I HAVE TO LOOK FOR A NEW MOTHERBOARD
.....NO ESC-F1-F2-F12 RESPONSE DURING BOOTUP!!!....

THANKS MAVIS

BYE

SIM


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Response Number 33
Name: mavis007
Date: October 19, 2009 at 08:33:33 Pacific
Reply:

"...I THINK I HAVE TO LOOK FOR A NEW MOTHERBOARD..."

... Restart the PC and enter the BIOS screen by pressing the F1 or F10 key at the first screen

... I think that you are barking up the wrong tree as you should be able to enter your bios!


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Response Number 34
Name: sims
Date: October 19, 2009 at 09:05:12 Pacific
Reply:

Hello Mavis I'm very happy you are trying to give me hope
There is no way I can get a F1 or F10 response
There is no key board response
I took the ram module out , and no beep-sound..nothing my dear friend.

So if you have any other suggestions I'll appreciate
thanks my dear friend mavis007
Thanks
I realy appreciate you!
Sim.


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Response Number 35
Name: mavis007
Date: October 19, 2009 at 09:21:32 Pacific
Reply:

... borrow and try another keyboard(?)


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Response Number 36
Name: sims
Date: October 19, 2009 at 09:35:23 Pacific
Reply:

Hello mavis 007
ofcourse I did mavis007
No response on esc-F1-F2-F10 AND F12
NO RESPONSE

thanks

Sim


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Response Number 37
Name: mavis007
Date: October 19, 2009 at 09:53:38 Pacific
Reply:

... I know in the past when I first messed with a compaq I thought I could'nt get into the bios

... I remember tapping <F10> key like crazy as the pc restarted up ... got there in the end


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