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Next Step Any ideas what I can do next. What's the most cost effective (cheap) way to resolve which, or if any, of these components has been burnt out? If I use the current chassis, power supply, disks etc what options do I have to rebuild the pc, can I only use the MS6541 motherboard or are their substitutes that I can use?. Performance as such is not a requirement (although the initial problem was that the PC was too slow to be acceptable).

Feedback To confirm that I have not touched the wiring, in fact Im at a loss to know where the wiring is. The MOBO is MS-6541 v2.1

Response To confirm that I have not touched any wiring. I got the rompaq from http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=nl&cc=nl&prodNameId=97106&prodSeriesId=96284&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=1093#120 and selected ROMPaq for Evo D310/D320/D510 and W4000 SFF DDR (686O2 ROM)3.18 12 Jun 20030.8156K: 1m 512K: <1m3.16 A 7 Apr 2003 The version I had was 3.13 Can't give motherboard version etc till tonight but it is something like MS-XXXX v2.1 - definitely version 2.1

Still not working Ok, I tried what was suggested above. I isolated the motherboard from all drives, memory and power connections, and with no battery. I then replaced the battery, the large power connector and the 4 pin power connector. I reconnected the power supply but still get the same problem, when I press the button the green light appears immediately but no fans start. After a short time the green light goes out and becomes a red flashing light at a rate of about 1-2 seconds. Any ideas of what else I can try please?

CMOS Battery Regarding the previous post the battery you describe seems different to the one I have, the battery is like a large version of a watch battery that locates into a holder with a connector in the base and a clip on the side holding it firm. There are no pins/wires etc

Suggestions tried so far from Dalo I've done what you said by removing the circular battery and leaving it out for a long period of time. Now when I switch power on the power light on the front goes immediately green (doesn't need me to press the power on button) and then after a few seconds flashes red at about 1 to 2 seconds delay and thats it! nothing more happens. There is power on the board as I can see green lights but the fans don't run, there is nothing on the screen - any ideas what else I can try?

I have a Compaq Evo D310 that is rather slow. Also it has a 40G disk to which I have added a slave 160G disk. If I try and make the 160G master or the only disk then the PC comes up with a disk read error on startup. Someone recommended I update my BIOS to possibly help here. On startup hitting F10 I have noted that the bios is v3.13 and the rom is 68602. From the HP web site I have downloaded a rompaq to upgrade to v3.18. After I did this and installed it via a floppy I noted on startup that the new version v3.18 was sucessfully installed. After continuing on to Windows the PC ran ok for a few minutes but then went down. Now it won't start at all, if I press the power on button the light goes green for a second or two and then flashes red every one or two seconds. I've searched the web but can find nothing concrete to help, any body got any ideas what went wrong?. The only clues I found were power failure or ROM fail??? but I don't know how to narrow this down and resurrect the PC back to life.

Settings Thanks for the info over settings but I'll have to run with just one memory card because it's faster than two. Any ideas why two memory cards can give such as drop in performance than one?

Settings Thanks for the info over settings but I'll have to run with just one memory card because it's faster than two. Any ideas why two memory cards can give such as drop in performance than one?

Feedback CHECK that the RAM is the same speed if you add 2 different speeds of RAM it will ALWAYS run at the lower value - not sure how to check this Check that values in the BIOS are set to default for the RAM - the bios only has an option to set all defaults, not one just for RAM so it might be a bit risky Have you tried booting the computer with the only the new memory? - yes, either memory card on its own is slow but just about useable, together it is completely unusable Have you checked that the bios is recognising the new memory? - the BIOS shows 504M of memory Are there any bios warnings (beebs) when you boot? - no Have you changed your pagefile settings to account for the new memory? - not sure how to do this

Feedback CHECK that the RAM is the same speed if you add 2 different speeds of RAM it will ALWAYS run at the lower value - not sure how to check this Check that values in the BIOS are set to default for the RAM - the bios only has an option to set all defaults, not one just for RAM so it might be a bit risky Have you tried booting the computer with the only the new memory? - yes, either memory card on its own is slow but just about useable, together it is completely unusable Have you checked that the bios is recognising the new memory? - the BIOS shows 504M of memory Are there any bios warnings (beebs) when you boot? - no Have you changed your pagefile settings to account for the new memory? - not sure how to do this

Hi, I purchased a Compaq Pentium 4 2660MHz from eBay. Its slow to boot and to use and has a single memory strip type PC2100 with 256M of memory. I ran Crucials memory utility and it advised me to buy a compatible memory card PC2700. I found that once the new memory card was inserted that booting and using the PC was a factor of times slower even though System showed that the extra memory was being recognised. I sent the memory back and bought another memory card from eBay, type PC2700 at 256M. It had the same effect. I heard that there is some doubt about the compatibility between 2100 and 2700 so I bought another PC2100 256M memory card. I fitted it last night and immediately noticed again a serious degradation in booting up and in performance even though System says there is 504M of memory. Any ideas about this bizarre situation that adding more memory causes the problem that I am trying to solve. Any help much appreciated, Rgds Martin

Hi, I purchased a Compaq Pentium 4 2660MHz from eBay. Its slow to boot and to use and has a single memory strip type PC2100 with 256M of memory. I ran Crucials memory utility and it advised me to buy a compatible memory card PC2700. I found that once the new memory card was inserted that booting and using the PC was a factor of times slower even though System showed that the extra memory was being recognised. I sent the memory back and bought another memory card from eBay, type PC2700 at 256M. It had the same effect. I heard that there is some doubt about the compatibility between 2100 and 2700 so I bought another PC2100 256M memory card. I fitted it last night and immediately noticed again a serious degradation in booting up and in performance even though System says there is 504M of memory. Any ideas about this bizarre situation that adding more memory causes the problem that I am trying to solve. Any help much appreciated, Rgds Martin

Done It all works - thank you so much

Thanks ... ... but I've managed to download a driver for the display that works by searching for 82845G/GL/GV. Network still a problem though

Details etc I run the SP21171 exe and it locates the files in c:/compaq/sp21171 I navigate there and run setup.exe which installs NVIDEA, but after that my display is still the same and I am unable to change the driver which I imagine is the whole point. The resolution of the screen remains at 640x480. The screen properties states (Default Monitor) on. I ran Everest and got the following :- Motherboard Name Compaq Evo D310 Chipset North Bridge Intel Brookdale -G i845G Chipset South Bridge intel 82801DB ICH4 Display GPU Intel 82845G/GL/GV Network PCI/PnP Network Intel 82801DB ICH4 = Lan Controller 82562ET/EZ PHY I also ran System Info For Windows (SIW) which gives the following Product Name Evo D310 Serial Number HU31102206 Motherboard Model 0804h North Bridge - as above South Bridge - as above The screenshot of the rear of the PC is similar but not the same. Below the PS2 ports are the 4 USBs instead of further down. There is a number on the plate which is 264185-001. Could be a red herring but there is a serial number on the motherboard which is sp#323003-001 p688201p10e1ej. There is also a label on the outer chassis stating - D31D/P266/80/k/256Ac Hewlett Packard S/N HU31102206 Product ID DB121T #ABU Not sure how to recognise a tower or desktop but it looks more like a desktop

Downloads etc Hi, Thanks for your help although this problem is driving me crazy. I downloaded SP21171.exe and ran it from CD, it installs correctly but the display itself still defaults to the original one, I don't seem to be able to select a driver via Control Panel/System/Device Manager where I try to poiint the new driver at C:/compac/SP21171. What am I doing wrong. In SIW if I click Hardware then Network Adaptors it just shows the computer name followed by the PC type in brackets. Any ideas? Rgds

Serial Number Thank you for your help. The serial number is HU31102206 Product ID DB121T It's a HP Compaq Pentium 4 I believe

Help - getting nowhere fast I thought this would be straightforward but it doesnt seem to be I downloaded two exe files onto a CD and inserted the disk into the Compaq. In device manager it couldnt make sense of the exes that I ran and expanded. The exes were supposed to be generic ethernet and monitor devices for XP via an HP web site. I'm not even sure what extensions the device manager wants?? Can anyone please help If some one can just advise of the correct files to transfer on CD that would be a tremendous help. I assume once I've got a decent video picture and an ethernet connection then the rest is relatively simple. Rgds

That's correct, it looks like safe mode. I was under the impression that an XP installation disk contains generic device drivers for all requirements, e.g. networks and video. So if I get my model number and go to the HP Compaq web site I guess I can get the correct device drivers. I assume there is one driver per device?? Thanks for your feedback

I have a fairly old HP Compaq Pentium 4 PC that has given me problems so I decided to re-install XP using the CD that came with the PC. After re-installing, the PC won't connect on the net and the monitor is using default settings. If I view the devices in the system area of the Control Panel it shows a yellow question mark for both the ethernet and the VDU. If I try and get the manager to find a driver on the CD it fails. So how do I at least connect on the internet so that I can search for the appropriate drivers?. Any help gratefully received

Screenshot showing properties of PC The screenshot should be attached and show that the memory is less than 512, 504 I think. The existing memory is 256M PC2100 DDR. The supplier sent me 256M DDR PC3200!! Don't know if this is the problem but I fitted the new memory twice and it came back with the same total memory size, Rgds screen.bmp

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I got the PC blank apart from XP. Installed AVG and ZoneAlarm. Then removed completely removed ZoneAlarm and installed Microsoft Works. That's it!! Haven't found problems with AVG in the past??