20 Most Recent Compaq Presario 2580US Notebook Questions & Answers

fixing a relic 15 year old square laptop, to want ends? its junk now, the CCFL inside are useless now, too old never spend cash on any monitor or PC with CCFL back lamps. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "came ,up" who came up.? bios or windows. told you this? sure wrong RAM. finding ram to fit and work in any relic PC now is not easy they dont make them now so are new old stock. why not buy a PC 2010 or newer, used. work that a end. with hope and a real future.. yours is no good. sorry. but that is a fact, never throw good money after bad.

Are you using an older AMD processor? older socket 939 AMD processors had the memory controllers built into the chip and tended to be a bit wonky with RAM. If you have 4 Ram slots check to see if they are different colors and try to insert the RAM into every other slot matching the colors.

These two problems could be related in the way that a power surge could have fried the hard drive and the battery. However that is not very likely. Even if that were the case you still have the same problem. A battery that won't charge, and a Hard drive that won't work.

Here is an included link to the service manual for your 2500 series Compaq presario.

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01122313.pdf

in the manual just check on the removal section, then the sub-section for the battery, and hard drive removal.

I was able to find your battery on-line for $40.
I found several Hard drives online that would fit your laptop. The range was between 40-75$, depending on how much space on your HDD you desire. What you had in your laptop to star with was only 40 gigabytes, or GB. an 80 GB drive would cost you only about 40, while a 250GB would run closer to $75.

Your battery is a flip of a latch, and you should be able to slide your battery out of the Left side of the computer if I am reading the diagrams correctly. Replacement would be the same, but in reverse. Gently slide battery in until flush with outside of computer, then latch shut.

Your Hard Drive is simply using a small Philips screw driver to unscrew two screws from the4 underside of the case. These screws will be about 2 1/2" apart towards the front edge of the computer's bottom. Basically the HDD sits underneath the touch-pad. The old Hard drive that you pull out of your laptop will have a bracket surrounding it, and a Hard drive connector. both the Hard drive bracket, and connector will need to transfer to the new drive in the same way that it was removed from the old drive. Be careful to face the drive up or down the proper direction in the bracket, or the drive probably won't fit. You could even take pictures of the removal, so you have reference for the re-installation.

If this were me, and I had the drive and battery I could do it in 30mt. at most. An unskilled User who took the time to do his/her home-work could do this in under an hour for sure.

Just one last note the proper order for this job would be to unplug the machine, remove the battery, hit the power button for a few seconds(to reduce the risk of electrical surge while working on the sensitive electronics), then switch the hard drive, insert battery, plug in.

I would recommend charging the battery to full the first time before even turning on the laptop, for @ least four hours. Remember the new hard drive will be blank, so you will need to install an Operating system on it. I recommend windows XP home. there should be a sticker with a key code on it on the under-side of your computer. I would hope you would have a XP disc or know someone that can get one for you.

Best of luck my friend.

~Lee-Nuxor~

Welcome to Fixya


This means that the battery that you purchased is not compatible with the laptop, to verify this try to turn on the system with the ac adapter unplugged. If the system does not turn on then that means that the system is not getting any power from the battery. You need to purchase a battery that is fully compatible to your machine


Hope this helps

First see if any monitor will work, plugged in at back? If works, check, just isn't been LCD monitor has been disabled by a key command, then if NOT work, it is probably Video card. OR actual LCD, OR the LCD power supply and/or Inverter? may also be bad connection to MB? Or Broken ribbon in lid, or case. Faulty sleep open/close LCD switch? Try those.

No I don't think it is outdated model.

what is your actual problem? all lights... so what! if the operating system is functioning then there is no problem!

You have perhaps stored files too heavy for your compaq presario. All you need to do is have a back-up CD for your files.Then execute a disk clean up or defrag. It will take you several minutes. Switch on and switch off of your PC won't help solve the problem but it will create more problems on your PC.

Hello Sir try this link you will get to the service manual.http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=374872〈=en&

No... but you can forma the pc

no 'coz these two memory card differ in size and slot especially when the mainboard doesn't support ddr2

Hi Gdiddy, You've got a bad file...it happens. You need a new copy of disk 4, best bet would be to contact HP (Compaq) support here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/contacthp?lc=en&cc=us&dest_page=product&query=2580us&docname=c00248814&product=374872&dlc=en Good Luck, Dude

Sounds like a driver or software problem, for a clue as to what it is go to control panel>administrative tools>then click on event viewer. Look on the system list and and application list for exclamation! marks or a red cross 'X' and click on line right click then properties for a clue. your rating is important

In case somebody has the same problem. Result of my investigation: * If everything is ok then the Presario CQ61 boots without battery. * HP support recommends to do a hard reset i.e. remove power supply, remove battery, press power button to discharge everything internally, connect power, press power button In my case the problem was solved by changing the AC Adapter (Power supply). Note: The led besides the power connector is not reliable. It is on with the working and faulty adapter. Note: The voltage level at the battery pins is not reliable. I had same values.

old PC,, Cq series. cq62-nnnnn you left off the nnnnnn cq62-100, 200 ,300 what? running mS windows 8 HP does not support W8 on this PC so that means you are on your own steam... (you , it and microsoft 100%) forget ACER this is not and ACER PC< at all, (totally different) you could reload w8 , like you did before, now all that works its login password issue, can i presume the screens look ok W8login screens? local login fails, not bios, and not windows live logins fails that is right there are 3 tiers of logins. admin , create a new account and use that or do that and ask at MS how to copy date from dead account to new account, you never said once you had data. if no data on pc, then reload 8, easy no? the newer the OS the more hard it is to get data from that dead account( new permission rules, and hard to do) ask best i can tell, lacking your full model number teh CQ62-400 (newest) had only Windows 7 so how did w8 get there, from whome, and what media. and what install methods. from MS CD? or MS ISO, or from ebay hackers disks/ what? here are the ways, (not data recovery) http://www.pcdied.com/passwords.html

how'd you do 2012 post then 2017, shocking. some one needs new clock battery , LOL

check o see if your sound driver is compatible with new software operating system.

Find your model number near the serial number. With that number go to the following link and enter it. This link is for HP's support website. You can find everything about your PC, replacement parts, Drivers, Manual. HP Troubleshooting

Please ask a question so we may help you.