Call Compaq and say you're cd-rom drive is messed up. Don't tell them you installed Windows 2000, and pretend to go through all the troubleshooting steps. Get yourself a new drive and see if it works.

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I'm trying to get a COMPAQ Dual Channel Ultra2 LVD SCSI adapter with the SYMBIOS 53C896 chipset to work on my PC. I'm running a Tyan S1668 motherboard dual Ppro-200; with two Asus SC-875 SCSI UW cards ...

In April 1998, at a regular weekly senior staff meeting on the Compaq Computer Corp. campus, chief executive Eckhard Pfeiffer told his lieutenants that he had a problem. We're not working together as ...