That was the issue I was having just digital audio issues. Installing programs and reading disks we're fine I just gave the lens a good cleaning and everything was normal again. Well what did you use to clean the lens? I used a cotton swap, got it wet and used a bit of dish soap to clean it. After …

I have the Armada 7792DMT and I have been searching for the CD Drive for what seems like for ever. Would you be kind enough to post some pictures of the CD Driver itself please? Also, my speakers don't actually work on mine! Its something I need to fix. Sound does work through the audio jack though …

I've had a similar issue with a laptop optical drive in the past and a good cleaning took care of it. Well since CD ROM reads fine and also cd playback is fine in "analog mode" i guess it doesn´t have issues reading the disk at all. I also installed Earth Worm Jim 1 from cd and it played fine, also …

Okay i figured it out: When putting the drive from my armada m700 into it, digital cd playback works just fine. So i guess the drive has an issue after more than 20 years... sadly

Hi there everyone! I´ve just recently noticed something very strange on this vintage laptop: When i tried to play a CD, it did it very strange with lots of distortion. I checked the wmplayer settings and it´s set to use digital audio for cd playback. Turning this off will sound normal but i think it …

One last question: I´ve seen some youtube videos of the very same machine and they enter a key combo to stretch the image to the screen. Usually it´s not scaling the image if it´s low resolution. I was unable to see which keys they pressed. So my question: how can i stretch the image to fit the …

It finally worked, thanks!

To access the BIOS you need to install the Personal Computer Diagnositics: https://web.archive.org/web/20000303195424/http://www.compaq.com/support/files/portables/us/software/661.html Hi, many thanks for your reply! I succesfully created the computer diagnostics floppy. After booting it (and re- …

Hi everyone, i have an old Compaq laptop in front of me and i'd like to finally access the BIOS. Since i do not have the original hdd, the bios partition is missing and i'm currently looking for a Softpaq or floppy image which will allow me to create the missing partition. Unfortunately or better …

Hallo :) Thank you for the reply. You´re right about the digital cd playback > the driver doesn ´t support this. In Windows settings the feature is greyed out actually so maybe those games don´t work with analog audio? Sadly i do not have a copy of other such games and also no internet except mobile …

Hi there, I´m new here so here´s some short info about myself: My name is Patrick, i´m 21 years old, based in germany and i´m interested in old and new computer hardware, android phones and development aswell as electronics and professional RC model cars /-airplanes. Going back to my issue: I bought …