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OMG a 16 year old desktop gee, why own this? came with windows 2000, then 2001 XP. both Dead OS. bad news that. why post at all lacking what OS your run of the many./ your ATT guy probably never seen anything this old for sure 1st tier helpers.... "a look by him and OMG what is that thing) what adapter, of the many? wifi, 3/5G wireless, or Ethernet wired. it came new with zero wireless anything. wired only and slow. 100GB only. we cant guess network unless a tiny hint added like wifi or? looks like it came new with a relic NIC eithernet port slow. there, and modern OS do not run now on that chip im reading your relic service manual now for you. the RJ45 on the rear , is Ethernet (wired) you connect a CAT5/6 cable to that and to your router. and it just works, that is if the Intel driver is loaded. Integrated Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter

You may try pressing and holding the power on switch for ten seconds after removing power and the cmos battery

download the WLAN driver

OK, ITS A RELIC CRT MONITOR. OVER 16 YEARS OLD? TODAY. why not do like all others did back in 2010 upgrade to LED LCD frankly your lucky it glows at all and not catch fire. unplug it from the wall for say 1hr and try again. lock might happen. like this, enter the 21 century bold and new, and hope. https://www.walmart.com/search/?cat_id=3944_3951_1230331_1230336&query=computer+monitor&sort=price_low#searchProductResult

thanks but............. and is and Obsolete PC. at HP and MS. sr1902uk (England?)

1. what OS? drivers match a OS, XP?
2. sure some makers of mobo offer drivers that HP ended. sure.
3. so does the unstated NIC chip maker offer drivers but not for all OS in most cases.
4. The best way to work on old PC is run the PCI scanner(ask)
5. identify the chip maker and model (ven=x dev=z)
6. then we can get any driver, for any OS if the chip maker has one, and many dont. for newer OS. (and ther reverse)
7. Finding drivers for old PC is not easy, (for me sure) but for most, it's very hard and the risk of getting virus high.!!
8. ask how to do it, using the scanner , lacking HP support.

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Xp will not install in place of 98. the hardware is too old. Set bios to boot from disk. If you have a rescue disk boot to safe mode and see what the problem is.

a 17 year old Laptop , 99.9% now in the dumpster. are you going to spend cash on this? if yes why? if it was a horse it be in the glue factory. a dead laptop step 1: is remove that old shorted huge battery now., step 2: then that 17 year old useless as a brick RTC coin cell. replace it now. or BIOS will be DEAD. strep 3 , a working power pack 19vdc,65watts up. and does the PC fan work now?, if not, it needs lots more cash !!!! ask if you can get this far.? above can be done for $10 (8buck pack and 2 buck coin) leave that main battery out , until the PC runs like new. do not buy a battery main, do not. unless cash dont matter. if this far, and the power button fails, then we must strip the PC down, to find out who is shorting the power buses ! or fan is bad, or just packed fully in lint , as all are that old. do the HP hard reset yet, ? see line 6 here, to the HP page on , hard power reset. http://pcdied.com/black-screen.html#Laptop and then the other tests. after that. here are the goals 1: power seems to work (the switch) 2: the fan works, and actually blow air, not packed up 3: screen shows text of any kind, like, "hit F10 to enter HP setup" as seen for 17 years but not todaY? 4:BIOS key works. F10 key works as prompted . and BIOS screens all work. 5: more, get this far say so... lots more its not a toaster

omg an antique monitora relic CRT monitor?????really?is it really MV320????or a typo.MV500s are CRT (heavy cathode RAY TUBES)you model is rare now, no photos of it by you.so...if not a CRT pig.then it must be a flat screen monitorthe first ones, up to year 2010 used crapppyCCFL back lamp tubes that are bad now. all are.(unless never used)call CCFL fail these ways.dim.white now yellowdead.blinks, or is intermittent,or strobes.l the backlamps CCLF tubes are dead. all do that, or just die .crt monitorsare junk and a fire hazard, trash it.CRT fails more wayssure dim,sure dead.but it has 3 guns , RGB , red green blue.the red gun loves to go weak first , red phosphorsare weak (a physics deal)one trick (long long ago is to up the red gun levels, to compensate.or lower Green/blue guns.gun means "electron gun" deep inside the CRT neckThe CRT has even more bad effects, failed.a huge endless list , if you want.we have it.with photos

the Only VMS post on fixya ever. wow. from the dark ages of DEC. VMS. OS. sounds like bad drive if it can not be mounted.(or disk bad) sounds like you are 42 years behind the upgrade curve too... i used to work on all DEC systems. so know that . 1975 the DS10, is now 18 years old. here is a relic manual, on that http://zzz.physics.umn.edu/_media/computing/department/ds10-cr.pdf is this your only DS10, of not try the drive on system #2? ahh its now called OPENVMS,, amazing thing that is. open vms was ported to ALph chips. 1992 then 2001 port of OpenVMS to the Intel Itanium architecture so it's an 17 year old OS. get HP proliant Server G7 up. and win. for sure.

IS THAT A Relic CRT monitors/?? wow.NOW THE FULL STORY. (GOT TIME NOW, IM IN MEX,GULF ON A BOAT,WITH SLOW WIFI OR NEAR DEAD.)the PSU is dead if the power button acts deadno fans right ? no sounds, the 2 or 3 fans do not spin and blow1: bad PSU2: or objects plugged into the mobo are shorted,3: mobo dead (Motherboard)do the jump test?herehttp://www.pcdied.com/power.html#Jumper

n800v (carbon dated 16 years old) like record here, on OLD !!! 1: remove the huge battery , no battery this old is good, and most this old are shorted overloading key power circuits. run only on AC power, even for ever is authorized. LOL 2: replace the RTC coin cell battery now, none this old are good now. period.(it failed 10 years ago , and and now 2nd time sure) 3: the screen this old has CCFL backlamps that are now NO GOOD. (very expensive to fix and why most of this pre 2010 junk PCs are not in the Recycle bin(trash) RIP junk. 4: the fan is dead, all are packed in lint this old, or there is no power to it, see #1 when #3 happens the PC can go totally nuts. random odd and gross failures of any kind. even a dead PC. The RTC battery is NOT OPTIONAL ever. RTC means real time clock chip and NVRAM backup battery. if dead bad things happen. most die in about 5 to 7 years. even the Copper tops , say that, makers.

what PC, non stated , only that old monitor that monitor is 16 years old today, wow , 99% are dead now long ago, dead when the CCFL lamps burned out long ago you be lucky it works at all, a fact. no the USB port is not sound, but they sell USB speakers and head phones that have its own sound system (CHIP_) total that replaces the sound in your unstated PC, (but is topic 2 not #1) lets do sound blind, I cant see your pC can I, no photos or names or models or what cables are attached can I, now. so sound 101: day: (forget USB for now, ok?) 1: my guess is desktop of some kind, (i use a monitor on a laptop) 2: remove all usb devices now, cept keyboard and mouse. 3: now see rear of PC, see those 3 or more 3.5mm phone jacks.? sure, see that green round phone jack, that is LINE out. 1.5mm diameter it is, (no set of pins , no USB this) if you connect ear buds or a real phone jack head phones this works now, (does it , bugs are 1 buck at the dollar store) eg: click control panel of your unstated windows, click sound click speakers, mine has many speakers to chose, 7.1, but if old PC it has one speaker click that,. (mine is fancy express sound card,with surround sound, so can yours if you buy the card) then click tab called,sounds , see asterisk. and test button this is the best way to test sound first. only this. This is built in to all windows made. all. and always works if the sound driver is present. if the test button fails to work at all. is gray out that is windows way of telling you the sound driver is borked up, missing or corrupted, one of my PC run linux, so.... that be different... lets say you get this far, ok? 4: lets say a real head phone works on the 1green jack. it must. forget USB for now, that is advanced stuff that MS does not support but can function good with hard work later. 5: now that monitor or any external speakers sold are all ampified speaker,, no they are NOT just speaker with only a voice coil inside. not at all. the monitor needs that 3.5mm cable attached, the amp in the monitor must be accessed, just like real exteral speakers that same do. on the monitor,here I will read your manual to you now. so can you why not do that first?????? 6:push the menu button on the monitor to get to sound volume/ the FP5012 as a 2watt amp inside that can fail or someone reset the monitor and the reset puts volume to 0 zero. the jack is named on mon. 1 x audio - input - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm - 1 why not just by new external speaker kit (amplified for PC)? spend like $10? i found your manual, want it? push center button now. push menu choice (OSD) 5 , for sound volume bingo? page 15, in dah manual. omg, its got its own button on front of mon. its not in the OSD on this monitor as is most. http://www.manualsdir.com/manuals/67592/compaq-5017.html end stock sound systems. USB is a totally different and more complex topic, as all USB devices can be, MS even has a warning on the use of these usb sound devices, ask and can send it to you in short MS says zero support on them ask your vender for that. do not run onboard sound with USB sound or they will fight each other, until you learn how to control that, ask. we do it all the time here. ok here is the V button set, below. if this fails and buds work, the monitor is BAD. if the buds fail the PC is messed up, (USB not used) cost of testing $1 (buds) buds means ear buds, sold in just about all stores now. for nada, get some keep them handy of cheap testing.

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Is the volume turned up?

you have so many posts with computer issues.! if I had that id go back to pencil and paper. LOL what mouse, ? a USB mouse or the MOUSE pad.?> tell what Persario it is, lots of models made. it has model number for sure use that everytime you post and tell what OS it running there solutions all depend that. and what mouse you own. my guess some Lenovo USB mouse A Persario name is a desktop and a lamptop it has no fixed form,, that work answer for say a desktop, no mouse pad laptop I guess running windows XP the virus magnet and is infected or the mouse is bad, try doing this. 1: try that bad mouse a good pc. 2: try a good PC mouse on the bad PC. see?? hardware is eliminated from the cause. or if all mice fail ,that is bad Software. top reason bad mouse driver. but if XP , the online drivers are gone now. so tell what PC this is what OS this is and answers can focus way better. ok? the control panel has mouse icon click that and test the mouse. it has a click speed test there, try that,? in device manager is the mouse driver bad>?

compaq Presario CQ60-420US a very old PC. 7 years is not too bad, on the edge there. what OS? windows what? doing what what are you doing. my guess is this is BROWSER question, is this IE , 4,5,6,7,9,10,11 only IE 11 (if is MS class) works now, so .... what is yours that? web sites now block older IE versions a fact. I use firefox v56, so should you. back to internet explorer why> you have browser take over, infections (google bar is one) its infected, for sure. get Firefox v56 and run that, or newer. there are 20 top browers and IE is not in the lest. IE is dead now at MS. 100% dead. Edge is NOW . if running XP or Vista and using IE you will get nothing but pain from now on. this PC came new with (options day 1) vista 32 vista 64 W7 32 w7 64 if vista you are doomed. if W7 ,get IE11 from ms and use that in fact IE11 is required to do MS updates, or they fail are you running AV ? antimalware? even defender? did you upgrade to w10 mid 2015 to 2016? never post software questions, lacking OS name. and what browser you use. or answers will be wrong. I promise.

Open Device Manager and revert to the earlier drivers, or just delete the device. Restart the computer and try other drivers if you're not happy with the current drivers. Don't get updated drivers from Windows Update, always download from nVidia or whatever graphics card you have. HP should have drivers intended specifically for your notebook, which takes their setup into account..

learn now,. that no 1 virus cleaning actions works even 1/2 the time once infected. its like driving car with flat tire to store to buy a new tire. impossible or just all bad news end to end. that is true. even running 10 AV scans can fail. ask any one that had to do this for years, yah there is only a few real cures. that are 100% effective. from 100% to least effective order 1: HP magically F11 key, back to day 1 recovery, do that? 2: buy the HP media kit, (above is missing before 2006?) and install your unstated OS fresh. 3: use MS media and spend a week fining lost drivers. 4: remove the HDD and put in on other PC, as 2nd drive. or better external usb drive case. and run 10 AV scans on it, the top 10 brands, one is ESET offline scanner. those are the ropes the F11 recovery fails if : A: someone deleted all files on PC and loaded MS OS. B; the HDD was ever change out. C: or if super unlucky the virus infected the F11 partitions, too. you are infected still or has aftermath. F11 key , and pick startup repair. if this fails do full recovery if that fails see step 2 above.

Compatible AC Adapter for Compaq Presario F755US Laptop I think it has a bad power adapter yielding insufficient voltage. This system is running Vista which makes it quite dated. However, you can try the replacement supply and see what happens. Or, they coud view Utube on an inexpensive android tablet. However, you can try the following (I am guessing you do not have the Vista disc): To boot into the Advanced Boot Options menu, follow these steps:

1. Restart your computer
2. Press F8 as soon as your computer starts to boot, but before the Windows Vista logo appears
3. The Advanced Boot Options menu should now appear
4. Select the Repair your computer option
5. Press Enter
6. System Recovery Options should now be available (You may need to select your time, keyboard and language preferences before the list of tools is displayed)

Some of these options will if operating at all restore your computer to factory defaults erasing data and programs installed after it first came out of the box.