Compaq Presario 5000 keeps freezing for no reason

You should disconnect or disable the card reader and then try to install XP.
In fact you should disconnect things you don't need during the first install.
After XP is installed you will need the Compaq drivers.

Regards,
GSM

Presario is running fine

Hello handcuff.
Nice to hear from you and that yours is still running good. I wish you also a fine 2008.

I use the PC now for testing Vista (dual boot with XP).
My Preasrio is running fine after that bad transistor was removed, I only had to replace the Philips CD-burner which became non responsive at the IDE-bus some times.
Let's keep that Compaq going.

Regards,
GSM

Compaq ?

Hello GSM. You wrote at me :


>> Let's keep that Compaq going.

I now have Ubuntu running on it. What a learning cureve this was, and steep too. I have one app to setup now, to see .jpg. It does all that I want except this. U'U runs nice even on this 800 CPU.

All the best to you, spring is about. JP aka Handcuff

Solderpads off UWAVE2...

I have also the problem with UWAVE2 board. It switches on and off without user interaction. So I thought it could be the "transistor"-Problem as GSM describes it. So far so well.

Unfortunately, I've read to late, that I SHOULDN'T solder out the transitor...so I did. It wennt ok, because I'm used to solder a lot. But then, i sold in the new "normal" (=big, not SMD) Transitor an i break off two of the tree solderpads. I guess they were the one for Basis and Emitter...

My question:

Has anyone schematics for UWAVE2 Mobo? Or can tell me somebody (perhaps GSM? ) if there is a way to catch up the contact somewhere else or where/to what part does the three pads/contacts go to/connect?

Thanks so much for your answers...

so long,
p@sco

Transistor pads.

P@sco, me again.

Further to your question, I looked up where GSM gave the information and here it is. If you read on this conference, posts # 17, 27, 31 and 33, you will find what you need. GSM points to where the new transistor can be soldered after one destroys the previous small pads where Q10 was soldered before.

My Compaq is still running, I have Ubuntu on it now.

I would wish you luck but you do not need any, a steady iron is all you need.

Come back with any result. If you do not achieve the repair, I have a spare new motherboard that we can discuss for cost. I got it in case that I could not do the GSM repair. Not needed any more.

Be good. handcuff.

Thanks GSM

I would like to thank you for the grunt work finding which transistor/vrm went bad.

I usually just toss boards out when they go bad but I was fixing this for a brother of my girlfriend and didn't want to have him put much money into it.

So far so good no freezing now or blank screens.

Bravo

Thanks again....

Compaq.

Nice work.

My Compaq is still going too. Fun it was.

A huge thankyou to GSM. Handcuff.

MoBo drivers.

Hello one and all, specially GSM.

Would anybody here have a CD with the drivers for this Compaq putor ?

It is basically an Epox KL-133M/M+/ML. Or any driver CD that would wake up the on-board devices, video-sound-USB and all.

It would be greatly appreciated. I have searched the Web for them and none found.

Thanks. handcuff aka JP.

replace or buy a new laptop battery to have a try

My Mobo has suddenly stopped working :-(...after months now. Resoldering took it back twice for 2 Minutes. Now nothing really helps. What do you want for your spare Mobo, handcuff? I might be interested in it.

Spare MoBo.

Good morning P@asco.

Too late, that spare MoBo is now running in a system for a friend. They are available on eBay for +/- $25.00. Good luck.

Handcuff.

same prob

hey guys, i have the same problem with this pc and would like to try the wire method if I am getting this correct, would I just have to solder the new chip (2n3708) onto the old chip? making sure the wires match up? I've tried everything to get this computer to stop working, it's got linux installed atm hoping that would get rid of this problem, I know it's a little long in the tooth for this problem and I would be better getting a new pc, but I was wondering if someone could give me a little direction especially gsm or handcuff if you're still around.

hopefully this will send before it freezes.

lemme know as it's driving me nuts, anything I will be grateful.

end/

Transistor replacement.

Good morning Handstand. Tee ! hee !

Got your message for help fine, your system kept going long enough.

Your search for help is all on this board. Just look up at all the previous posts here from GSM and this is all that you will need, that is all that I needed. I do not have the knowledge that GSM has to toruble shoot these boards and find the solution, I was only able to read and do what he showed us was the cure. My Compaq is still going and will get a boost of RAM to run Vista soon.

My solution was to solder in this replacement transistor and after extending the three wires with very small wires, 22 AWG, they were soldered to the pads leading to Q10 in the board, the pad of 10 were too small to reach, all this as GSM proferred.

If you learned to read as I did when I was 5, you can do it too. Let us know.

handcuff aka handcuff36 ta gmail tod com

Hi, I'm new here ... I found this thread because I work at a non-profit thrift store and recondition donated computers to sell.

We got a Compaq Presario 5000 in with the problem described here, but I've run in to something else with these models that might help someone.

Before I found this thread, and after changing virtually everything, I had narrowed it down to a bad MB, and purchased a used tested one on eBay. After 10 minutes of running time it did the same thing, freezing, restarts, sometimes blue screen, etc. I thought, OK, maybe it's a bad MB, so I purchased another, this time a "new" one off eBay. After 10 minutes running time it did the same thing!

I purchased a third one, again new, but this time I DIDN'T buy a UWAVE (I had found this site after the third purchase ... these things are cheap, usually less than $20 on eBay), and as I was loading Windows, it began to restart again!

Just on a hunch, I took the Compaq power supply apart, and there ... was a bad capacitor ... one of two tall ones towards the rear, near the output wires. The cap was swelled with a brown substance seeping out. I replaced the capacitor with a good one from a junk power supply (a fairly easy job) and wala ... the computer has been running flawlessly for several days! (we run them all day long when they're on display for sale).

I had switched out power supplies when I was initially searching for the problem, but I suspect that the MB had already been damaged, causing restarts, etc. Now I don't know if the UWAVE MB caused the power supply to fail ... or the power supply caused the MB to fail ... but I know it's fixed!

I'm going to go back now, and try and repair the other UWAVE MB's with what GSM has described here.

Thanks to all for this thread, and I hope that what I've shared might help someone as well. We've gotten several Compaq Presario 5000's donated to us ... now I know why!

Geoffzie

My Presario is still fine, but..

Hi Geoffzie,

I hope you will also be able to repair the UWAVE mobo!
Would be nice to know that even more Presario's could be saved and are still in use.

I have given my Presario to a member of my family. It's still running XP there, without any problem.

Kind regards,
GSM

MoBo then, CPU now.

Hello, GSM.

Yep ! Still going that Presario. I was wondering if you can tell me if I can upgrade the CPU from a 950 MHz to a much better one. On eBay, they have some that go to 1800 MHz, all socket A, 462 pin, Athlon.

The question is: these are 333 FSB and my MoBo is 133, with 133 RAM ? Will this work, will it bring down the CPU to the available rate ? Picking your mind now.

Thanks a mega. JP aka handcuff.

Hello handcuff,

I really don't know if 333 will work. I don't expect it will. I am sorry.

gsm

I have that same problem for years now and I decided to look it up, due to headaches to the freezing of my pc. I've used a soldering iron before and was wondering if that chip is somthing u can buy at a local electonics shop? somewhere I can pay cash up front.

btw, gsm thanks for giving your diagnosis on the web,

Jeff

Four years soon.

Hello GSM, Sir.

You started me on this repair now 4 years soon and the Presario 5WV271 is still running. Greatly updated as when fixed it was worth doing this.

It now has two HDs, and double boots to Ubuntu. 2 Megs of RAM and a 64 Meg vid-cart ! A fine machine and it would have been a shame to trow it away.

A large thankyou for your stellar explanations of the fault and the fix. Have you heard of anybody else meeting with such fine success ?

Sincerely, handcuff.

]Hello GSM, Sir.

You started me on this repair now 4 years soon and the Presario 5WV271 is still running. Greatly updated as when fixed it was worth doing this.

Sincerely, handcuff.


A correction here, it ought to be 2.5 years ago for me, Feb 2007. The 5WV271 is still running, I am on it at this very moment. h.