I have a Presario CQ61 that will power up into sleep mode. all the lights come on but the wifi indicator is orange instead of blue and all the lights just flash. Removing the battery and putting it back in does nothing. sometimes i have to kill the battery & recharge it for the system to work but that doesn't always do the trick. It can take days to get the laptop to work again. Any suggestions?

SOURCE: HOW TO START WIFI SERVICES IN COMPAQ PRESARIO C700

hi , r u using win xp or vista, if u r using win xp , then its one of the compatiblity issue of this notebook with win xp. wifi will work but the led will always be red.
sunder singh

SOURCE: Presario v2000 stuck in hibernation, can't power it up

remove battery plug in power...see what happens ...nothing happens press and hold power button until you hear response(shut down)press power as usual to boot.if it doesnt work first time try a few times more remember to keep power button pressed to shut down.

SOURCE: Compaq Presario 700 Series Laptop wont turn on

Please first make sure that your adaptor is working.
Try to remove the battery and connect your laptop to the adaptor. Swith on. If nothing chages, then there is good chance that you have a motherboard related problem.

SOURCE: Compaq presario V2000

Try booting into the BIOS Screen and resetting to factory defaults. If that fails suggest swapping the hard drive out and re-install the Operating System - Save your old data and migrate the data off the old drive. You can buy an external drive adapter to connect the harddrive to a USB port to migrate you data.
Good Luck!

Testimonial: "Excellent answer ! Very helpful, very fast ! Thanks so much."

SOURCE: compaq presario v4000 laptop won't power up

I had a Hp or compaq tablet *with swivel screen. I have a hard time myself trying to get it to beam up. what a pesky switch. But I do know what happened to it before it started acting bad.... the spot where I plug in the power cord got extremely loose.. and i had to hold it just so with one leg of mine in the air one under me.. :D joke but you get the point. Just to try to get it to charge up. I didnt know if it was just the plug... I found out later with the help of a charging dock. That it was in fact the chargeing hole... After about 5 hrs playing with the cord in the charge dock to get it just right. It charged up for a measly hr or so. But since then when I use the charge dock the laptop will boot up...