What is the typical problem of black screeen on compaq presario v5000 (a laptop PC.

SOURCE: Compaq Presario V5000

Cant get my screen to read. it is black/blank. Is there a reset button? Compaq pesario v5000 lap top

Chris

SOURCE: Compaq Presario v5000 won't turn on

If the laptop posts: (power on self test) and you see stuff on the screen, no matter how short ,do the following:
if you have a bootable anti virus disc use it to check for any viruses , if not
try a recovery disc,
both will try to access the hard drive.
if they do not work,(nothing has changed) nothing comes on the screen.
laptop does not post:
remove the screw(s) holding the cover plate where the ram lives
remove the memory sticks, clean the gold edges with a pencil eraser both sides and re-insert them, (not an ink eraser as it will do damage)
swap them around if you have more than one,
if you only have one, borrow one from a friend or try the ram in your friends laptop ,if that's possible, or take the ram to your local pc shop and ask them to check it for you (they may or may not do that for you)
if you can establish that the ram is ok, and anti virus and recovery disc's do not work,then it is most likely, the motherboard has failed .
good luck with that and let me know how you get on.
Terry

SOURCE: how to upgrade the cpu in my compaq presario v5000

Go to Compaq's website (Now HP) and find info (KIP) on the max Ghz it will support and what has to be done (maybe nothing, maybe switches or jumpers) set it and "POP" in the new chip!

GL!

SOURCE: I wish to format my Compaq Presario v5000 and

Good day sir/maam, yes let me be of assistance to your task of formatting your Compaq.

Power on compaq and place your windows XP CD installer on the CD drive.
Here are the events that will take place.

1. You need to boot the CD inside the drive. Go to CMOS setup (usually you press F10) and locate the first boot option, set it to the CD drive. save and restart.
2. If the boot from CD appears press spacebar, or any key to start the boot process.
3. At this point windows will load the series of files needed to setup windows. wait for it to ask you a question.
4. You will arrive at a point to create a partition or where you would like to install the windows Operating system, we usually select C drive.
5. Next is you need to choose what kind of format you want on the C drive, just choose NTFS, be it the long format or the quick one. (quick format mean the drive is only erased).
6. Wait for the windows setup to restart, then the CD setup takes over the setup process. Wait for it to ask you questions on where you are, country and the likes.
7. After setting it up, the XP setup will ask you the 25 letter/number serial code that can be found on the CD case.
8. the setup will restart, follow the instructions on how to register your windows, or just skip the the process, you can register it later.
9. On the input login names, place your name and add extra names if you want as login name.
10. The windows setup is done, you now need the CD that comes with your compaq laptop, to setup all the devices on it, such as sound, video, usb, lan, etc. your done.

SOURCE: compaq presario v5000 - wireless button broke

sp31891.exe is the HP/Compaq Softpaq that helped me see that the wireless was enabled, but had some kind of software funkiness. It may also contain the driver for the wireless on/off switch for the Presario V5000 series. The particular unit I was working on was a V5005us .
-Brad Chesney