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Still no video output. Four beeps happen if even one device is plugged in. Power supply issue?

Heyyy I got it. Well the CPU might need new thermal paste.

Removing everything, cdrom, floppy drive, and HDD did not work

So I’ve done some dusting cuz it’s hella dusty, I took the cpu fan out and unclogged it. Now I’m trying to check the cpu itself but I can’t figure out the heat sink.

I can’t figure out if there’s a place here I could talk about it because it probably isn’t old enough, it seems like a 1999-2000 computer. It’s running Windows ME (or it came with it at least) but I’ve seen similar HP computers that are minimum 1998, I think. I just can’t really figure it out...

Ok, so, I need: - A Edge connector to 34 pin IDC floppy adapter - 5.25" to 3.5" for a Gotek or my 3.5" floppy drive -A Molex to Molex FDD Floppy Disk Drive Berg for powering the 3.5" floppy drive or Gotek (a molex to berg adapter right?) -A computer/software to write to the 3.5" floppy or to a...

And MS-DOS 5.x will 100% work on the Compaq, right?

Alright then

I suppose I also need to get an operating system on the machines hard drive too. I’d need to find info on that eventually.

I believe it works, there’s nothing wrong with the hardware physically when I checked.

Now what would these adapters be called?

to be honest, I need to do more research on older cables and such, the card edge connector would be this?

I’m located in Spokane County WA, could you tell me what kind of gotek I’d need? I looked at them but I couldn’t tell what kind would work with my Compaq.

Hi! As the title says, I'm looking the setup disks to bring my Compaq Portable III back. (I was gonna try installing a newer floppy drive but that didn't work.) I have some brand new 5.25 floppies and money, as payment. My problem here is that no one in my local area or I have a machine with a...

So with this...