EVER HEARD OF THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH? this is common 4 all compaq workstations,latops all of them r garbage never buy a compaq only buy clones that way u r safe !

Every so often we get someone in the forum who works for Compaq, Its quite funny how they dont deny that compaq is crap, but try to make up excuses for them, LOL, Face it guys, they are crap

I made the mistake of buying a Compaq Presario approximately 4 years ago. One major thing that annoys me is how the things are arranged inside the case. Another was the screws they originally used.

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OK, personally, I dislike Compaq, more for historical reasons than any current thing, but...

>>never buy a compaq only buy clones that way u r safe !

uhmm.... hello?
With compaq at least you know what you're getting, all 10,000 computers in a production run are pretty much the same.
With clone, if may be the best computer you'll ever have or be a piece of garbage that couldn't aspire to clean dust off of Compaq's motherboard...

besides, truth be told, I'm writting this on a Compaq workstation at work which hasn't crashed since I started working on it on September 18th, 2000... I mean not once
I routinely leave it on for weeks at the time, only restart when my password expires or need to update the settings or something... otherwise, I just let it sleep
And while I don't have 3dstudio or some such thing running, at any given time I'll have at least 7 programs open, plus a citrix window with another 5 or more applications... so yes, I'd say I give it a run for its money

so while I won't ever buy one for myself, I don't get idiotic about slamming them either

I agree the compaq workstations seem to run fine. I work on one myself but I do basic work stuff. When it comes to doing homestuff like streaming mulitmedia and abvoe all GAMES sometimes it's jsut too much of a pain to put up with thier proprietary junk. Thier sound cards are notoriuosly evil. Almost as bad as the Packard bel ones.

"NEVER BUY A COMPAQ"

Damn right i won´t!!

Better burn in Hell with some company than freeze in Heaven all alone

This is a classic example of what I am talking about. People do not know what they are buying when they buy it. If I am making an investment of $1000 dollars or more I go and find out everything about it before I buy it. I mean you don't go to store and buy rotten tomatoes do you? No, you don't, you spend a little extra time and inspect it. crack open the case before you buy a computer. Just a tip!
Take the time one day and go buy your local Compaq dealer and open up the case. The new units are totally upgradeable.

Just a a friendly tip! Compaq does not make sound cards!

Perhaps, but the sound card that came in my old Deskpro 4000 had no other identifiable markings on it than "Compaq" and the drivers for it were generic ess- so do they just use generic crap that's even worse than oem brand? probably. BTW, those hex screws holding in the cards sure ARE a pain. Oh, and did I mention how much I HATE riser boards? just wondering...

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They don't make soundcards but they put crappy proprietary ones in thier systems. Or at least they used to. I'm sure packard bell didn't make sound cards either.

What do you mean proprietary? What model do you have?

Exactly my point here... You bought it brother... yo should have learned more about it before you bought it....

Well, I don't want to sound like I'm complaining too much, because I'm not- Sure the riser board threw me for a loop when I first opened the case, but I wasn't planning on upgrading the system anyway, since I got it very cheap on ebay- It is just a nice computer for my kids, that's all. I do have to say that as far as the hardware goes, everything is still working in it, although I upgraded the vid card to a Voodoo3 3000 PCI- that's when I found the lovely hex screws- Why would they even bother doing something like that? To dissuade non-computer experts from tampering with the system? Heck, you don't need to know anything about computers, just be handy with tools. I don't think that's something I could have found with research, either. But the point is well taken; people should research their purchases as much as possible before buying- I just certainly wouldn't recommend an older Compaq system to anyone who want's to do any kind of upgrading, that's all.

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Well there are comercial compaq workstations, servers, and notebooks. Those my perform better do to the fact that they are commercial units, aka coperate personal know what a computer should and shouldnt be doing. The home systems on the other hand suck complete sh|T!. For starters dividing the hard drive into a normal operating section and another section that contains the restore software. Dear god do you really need to have the recover software on the system if it runs reliable? I think not! Not to mention the damn backweb runs in the background and sucks up resources like mad! Compaq home machines certainly suck!

Lets face it people, there are stupid people and stupid questions!

Well, seeing your grammar and spelling ability, it is no wonder you have issues with Compaq Computers. I mean if you don't like the Backweb tool, disable it. The reason Compaq puts the backup software on the computer is for convenience in case you ever need to restore software or a driver. Believe me I have worked around computers a long time most issues are caused by the USER!!! I like to call it ID10t error or problem between chair and keyboard.....

Perception is Reality!!!

no all compaq's blow
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p.s. build your own you will love it more

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