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wallythacker - 2006-03-31 4:40 AM
Old Compaq anything is crap. (1995-99?)
Compaq was too cheap to put a fan on cpus so used a 0.0001 cent piece of carboard to direct airflow from the power supply over the cpu. Yeah, that worked great in warm climates.
As I mentioned, my Compaq 1230 laptop had the worst screen I've ever seen on a laptop. It also had a hare-brained Cyrix MediaGX cpu and chipset.
The few consumer Hps I've owned/fixed (1995-2000 era) have been slow finicky dogs compared to other brands. I recall the fiasco of no restore cds with many desktops. Instead HP wasted 8gb on the hdd with a restore image, reducing the 40gb hdd to <23gb of available space.
glad to hear my compaq is from 2002
(but it says hp nowhere, so it is compaq
), so these shouldn't apply
no restore cd though, and no restore image either. hmmm never missed it..
(in any case i installed xp pro right away, iirc it came with xp home.. or win2000 can't remember
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CE Geek - 2006-03-31 4:30 AM
Well, I'd always heard that Compaq PCs were crap, but clearly cmonex' experience calls that into question.
certainly questioning that. i like this compaq pc here
Edited by cmonex 2006-03-31 12:18 PM
