20 Most Recent Compaq Armada 1750 Notebook Questions & Answers

Restart your computer During the boot process you will see on the screen to press a certain key to enter setup usually the Delete or F2 key this will vary depending on your computer and operating system Press and hold that key during the boot up process to enter BIOS using the arrow keys load failsafe defaults or load optimized defaults press escape then press f10 to save to cmos to restart If this fails you might try some of these Acer: - Ctrl+Alt+Esc ALR PC: (F2) or (Ctrl)(Alt)Esc) AMI BIOS: (Del), (F1) or (F2) AST, Advantage, Award, Tandon: - Ctrl + Alt + Esc Award BIOS: (Del) or (Ctrl)(Alt)(Esc)

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Turn on your computer and locate the Wi-Fi icon.

This could be located on the upper row on a laptop it will have the radiation look (((·)))

Make sure its pressed on.

The internet connection is located in the system tray in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

The icon looks like a series of rectangles that increase in size from left to right.

Right-click the Wi-Fi icon and select "Connect to a network." You will see a list of available wireless networks.

Choose a Wi-Fi network you want to connect to and select "Connect."

Enter the password into the password text box if a password is required.

If a password is not required, you will automatically connect to the Wi-Fi network.

Click "OK."

Hope this helps.

Hi ,Ok , first , lets try the device manager and see if there is a conflict with another device , so right click on the driver and go to prop. and see whats up ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,let me know ................Rpy

Tap the F8 Key as soon as the Laptop is powered on, keep tapping it till it brings you to Boot Choice Menu Options.. Options such as: Safe Mode, Safe Mode w/ Networking, Last Known Good Config..etc... are listed here..

Press and hold the F12 Key If You Need To Get To Boot Choices.. Such As Boot From CDrom, Boot From LAN, Boot From USB Device..

do you have a guest acount on the computer?Try safe mode once more enter as a guest change the administrator acount password.This can be done under user acount in the control panel
Good luck

Professional help may be needed here--there are tools that are on the web that can help, but for the sake of "cant circumvent protection on pass worded devices", Google it.

You can't enter the laptop until it has Guest Account Enabled. It is surely disabled. And for that Forgotten Password, try to remember that do you have any other user on that laptop. If yes, then log into on behalf of that user and change the password of yours by accessing the User Account Page in the Control Panel. This way you need not have to remember the Password of that account. And if you don't have any other administrator, then try a Hard Reset. You can do it by De-attaching every internal and external Attachable part of the Laptop.
Thank you Sir, Have a nice day.

probably the inverter has gone inside the screen and will need replacing it is located in between the two hinges beneath the plastic trim

look online at HP's website.

make sure you update the video drive.

On *********** board, there will be a battery, take that out and put it back in. if you have the OS disk. put it in. shut off computer, turn it back on press enter to boot from disk. either re format your hdd by deleting the partioned space or repair.

use an rj11 cable.

Try booting from safe-mode.

Some Compaq's actually have a partition on the hard drive for the BIOS. If someone
> used FDISK to remove the partition, then you won't be able to get into the BIOS
>without either re-creating the partition or by booting from a floppy with the setup
>utility on it. One of Compaq's disks will re-create the partition, but of course,
>will blow away all the data on your hard drive.
>
>I had to download two programs from Compaq:
>1) PC Diagnotics
>2) Setup for Portables
>
>I got them from the Drivers section of Compaq's site.
>
>This was one of the files, it is for an Armada 1750, so it probably won't work if
>you have a different machine, but will give you an idea of what to look for:
> www.compaq.com/support/files/armada/us/download/8093.html

You may need to contact Compaq and ask for a hard copy of the manual.

They are the only people i know who can solve this unless you buy one of eBay etc.

the downloadable on is just as good isn't it? and it's free.

So i reckon contact Hp/Compaq and ask for it or download it!

Actually I got distracted, and moved on to other projects, however I believe you can get support for the product from HP's website. I believe it was a driver problem, If I could find a CD rom and boot disk, what I would do is load Win 95 from a formatted HD then upgrade to Win 98, then upgrade again to XP or whatever your looking to use. The main problem I seemed to have was that 98 didn't have the driver or even recognize the CD Rom ( even though it was working ) so I couldn't load any video drivers. I dug it out to give it another go but again seem to have other stuff to do.

That notebook is too old for XP really. I would either stick with win98 - you can get drivers for the video, sound, modem, etc, from :
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html?pageDisplay=drivers

Or if the laptop has at least 128mb RAM then Windows 2000 will install all the basic drivers for your system and is fully supported on that system.

connect external monitor to see if adapter is ok. If external monitor comes on OK,(check to see if the FN+F5 or another key has to be toggled for external display) then shine flashlight on screen to see if Icons are visible. If the Icons are visible LCD inverter would have to be replaced. If external monitor works and Icons are not visible lcd is probably no good, If external monitor does not work then Video adapter is bad.

On the 1750 the setup bios settings are held on the hard drive, if you cant get any further I would suggest the drive is dead.

Best thing for you to do is reinstall windows from scratch. I don't recommend you to use windows 98 b/c its not very secure and you won't be able to use USb2 without additional drivers.

go to the bios and change the boot order to cdrom first then reinstall windows XP with the minimum items on it and it will make your life much easier.

visit the comaq site to get the drivers you will need although since its a fairly old machine windows xp should have most of the drivers for it.

good luck

smeags.