My compaq armada e500 is not opening my Sandisk thumb drive.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/729u6reo5f4h42c/armada_e500.pdf?dl=0

This e500 has USB1.0 and transfer rate will be slow. If you use Win 98 then install the USB driver (get on web) first. Install software then plug in the USB lead from the crw-785 and don't forget to plug in the DC adaptor for the drive, (e500 USB port does not have enough power to run external drives other than some older thumbdrives).

Well first you need to ensure that you have the ATI Videodrivers nstalled for your laptop then:

Right click an empty space on the desktop
Click properties
Click settings
click advanced
Click ATI displays
click the red power icon on the TV section
click Ok
Click Ok

Should now be an image on your TV

I have E500 and it dont have actual button, Insert wireless card open network, click on wireless let connect and away you go surfing the net.Also make sure in internet opitions that wireless is enabled. Hope this helps

the usb port of my hp Compaq Laptop nc6000 no longer works properly. whenever i insert a flash it says usb device not recognized.

you can safely install up to a 80 GB HDD in that compaq. When getting into the bios go to the boot sequence section and change the boot squence to be CD=>HDD=>FLOPPY or FLOPPY=>CD=>HDD

Here's is the link just check it out

www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/linux/131511-001.pdf

in this link see below u get all the details

www.eserviceinfo.com/index.php?what=search2&searchstring=Compaq+Armada+E500+and+Armada+V300

open the window first..right....he..he..do you have a recovery disk handy

Try here & it's not a bad price either.
http://pchub.com/uph/laptop/38-4978-1511/Compaq-Armada-E500-HDD-Caddy-Cable-Adapter.html

Good luck & have a great day!

hi i am kishan, from india u r facing this problem so same problem is facing my customer so i think its problem of your lcd so u can do one thing \ back side of your laptop u will find vga port so do arrang one moniter(desktop) and attach it to your laptop vga port and then start your laptop and press alt+f5(simbol of external monitor) and u can dispay your windows on moniter now u can take your backup it will work but u shoud check your laptops lcd dispay regard .... take care