20 Most Recent HP Compaq Presario SR2180NX (RK548AA#ABA) PC Desktop Questions & Answers

SR2180NX has the Vista 32Bit OS from HP. The restore partition will always put Vista 32Bit back on if you use it. Windows XP can only be put on from scratch and I have done it while I still have Vista installed. One problem: there are no XP drivers under SR2180NX webpages. Do your research on the parts that are installed in the 2180 and any other HP machines that have the Windows XP operating system as the OEM OS. But First, check the Intel Site for the 945 chipset drivers (include the SouthBridge, too) under XP. Get them downloaded to a CD and burn the rest of the drivers you find for XP on the same CD. This way, you will have them ready when you are performing the down-grade to windows xp. After you are done with the XP install, you will still have access to the files & work you had done while in Vista. The Vista files are still readable. You might want to consider getting the Windows 7 Professional (not basic) available October 22, 2009. AND you will still have to get the Intel Downloads for Win7 any way, so why not make it a project and make it last for a few years. XP Support stops in 2014.

This particular computer has an PCI-E slot available for a graphics card upgrade (provided that it doesn't already have one in there). You should be okay with not upgrading the power supply, unless you're looking to put a really beefy card in there. Something simple, that'll have HDMI on it and will have no issue driving HD content would be best in the realm of a Geforce GT 720. It's $50 on NewEgg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487062 Hope this helps!

If you want to look at bad HDMI pictures, then go for a cheap graphics card. If you have maxed out memory capacity and have no more room for hard drives, then get a larger capacity power supply.

Try another SD card. If it works, the card is damaged. Also, see... http://www.instructables.com/answers/Compaq-sd-card-reader-not-working/

Which device? Please be more specific.Try re-installing the intel chipset driver.This usually happens if the chipset drivers are not all installed properly.

You need to be more specific... How many beeps? Did you add any new hardware? Were you doing anything inside the case? Does it boot up at all? Are there any messages on the screen?

You need to be more specific. How many beeps? Did you add any new hardware? Were you doing anything inside the case? Does it boot up at all? Are there any messages on the screen?

ram issue if safe mode. otherwise turn apps on one by one to see which one is causing it. u can also try load the drivers one by one in safe mode to see maybe a driver is crashed or conflicting with some system code.

Sounds like your video card to me. If you have an add-on card, it can be replaced. If you have one that is integrated into the motherboard, you can add a card if you wish. I'd go for a new motherboard. If one part of the board failed, what is next?

try to remove the hard drive and try it unto another pc... probably cable problem. if not, maybe faulty hard drive . :(

Usted puede tratar de arrancar en modo seguro pulsando F8 durante el boods m?quina. Una vez en modo seguro se puede tratar de hacer una restauraci?n del sistema de la, en Inicio, Todos los programas, accessores Herramientas del sistema • Restaurar sistema. Si esto no funciona, entonces usted tiene que hacer una restauraci?n completa del sistema o la recuperaci?n del sistema en funci?n de su computadora. La mayor?a de los nuevos equipos le permitir? hacer una recuperaci?n del sistema pulsando una de las claves durante el arranque. Usted va a perder todos los programas y todo lo que est? en el equipo. Usted puede ser capaz de hacer esto sin tener que formatear el disco duro. I’m happy to help further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/al_e83b1941f9c0f302

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On HP, one short and then one long beep usually means a problem with memory. Open up the case and try reseating the memory. If you have more than one, you can try removing them one at a time, trying to boot up each time and see if you can isolate which one is bad.

Please disconnect all the peripherals, then remove the RAM. Leave the computer idle for five minutes and reinsert the RAM. clean the RAM slots with air blow. Then reconnect the peripherals and restart the computer

you could run the check disk utility click start run type cmd then type chkdsk/r/f which willscan for and attempt to repair any bad sectors and automatically fix any corrupt files on your hard drive then defragment your hard drive hope this helps

Three causes

Bios is not set to boot from CD first

CD is not properly burnt as bootable (often the case in pirate copies of software)

CD rom drive is dying.

If the Pc is booting directly to safe mode and the OS windows XP than Simply uninstall the SP3

NO you would need a extra power supply or upgrade your power unit to at least a 500 WATT see Hp jips its customers and puts a 350 watt or a 400 watt in there systems so then you are not going to have the connectors to power that card in the pci E slot. So you will need to unfortunately upgrade the power supply. its for your benefit to do so anyhow.

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yes, the ram is backwards compatible.