11-08-2002, 01:58 PM
Well, at my motherboard's website (gigabyte), they had the following message:
I use quicken all of the time - in anycase you should DEFINITELY backup often, no matter what you do.
If you are having problems re-installing quicken, e-mail me - I have a "copy" of quicken home & business 2003 that I am now using.
As for upgrading a compaq, it might not pay. You need to go to compaq's site <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.compaq.com/support/">http://www.compaq.com/support/</a><!-- m --> and see what they recommend. I had an older compaq presario, and when I went to update it, I found much of the stuff was unique to compaq, and not the easily replaceable stuff of other manufacturers. Even a faster HD was tough on that machine - they used a 5" HD (most are 3"), and they put it in a side cage. the bios wouldn't recognize more than 20 gig, but it also wouldn't boot from the maxtor ide card I used on another machine.
That doesn't mean you can't upgrade it - It just might be a pain. In addition to the above site, you can do a google search for compaq (your model) shutdown problem - look not only on web, but groups too. someone most likely had the same problem and already figured out what to do.
Quote:If your system still can't be shut down after updating new BIOS for WinXP. Please reinstall WinXP to solve the problemso yours is not a unique problem.
I use quicken all of the time - in anycase you should DEFINITELY backup often, no matter what you do.
If you are having problems re-installing quicken, e-mail me - I have a "copy" of quicken home & business 2003 that I am now using.
As for upgrading a compaq, it might not pay. You need to go to compaq's site <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.compaq.com/support/">http://www.compaq.com/support/</a><!-- m --> and see what they recommend. I had an older compaq presario, and when I went to update it, I found much of the stuff was unique to compaq, and not the easily replaceable stuff of other manufacturers. Even a faster HD was tough on that machine - they used a 5" HD (most are 3"), and they put it in a side cage. the bios wouldn't recognize more than 20 gig, but it also wouldn't boot from the maxtor ide card I used on another machine.
That doesn't mean you can't upgrade it - It just might be a pain. In addition to the above site, you can do a google search for compaq (your model) shutdown problem - look not only on web, but groups too. someone most likely had the same problem and already figured out what to do.