• Armada E500 Drivers

Apr 10, 2018 - HP Compaq Armada e500 drivers. Please scroll down to find a latest utilities and drivers for your HP Compaq Armada e500. Be attentive to. Compaq Armada E500 - Notebook PC Manual Online: Changing The Startup Sequence With Multiboot. If more than one drive is in the system, the computer.

. 117 Answers SOURCE: Simple things first: Assuming the CD drive is removable, remove it from the laptop then re-iinsert it making sure it's pushed home properly so that the connectors seat properly. If, again, the drive is in a bay (i.e. It's removable) then it may be the connectors are worn/damaged. If it's the drive connector then it may be repairable or you might pick up another drive, perhaps on eBay. It may also be that the drive has simply given up the ghost - so back to eBay:) If the connectors on the laptop have got damaged then you're looking at dismantling the laptop to repair/replace them, if that's possible.

Armada E500 Drivers

If it's an external drive then the advice is very similar - check out the connectors first. If they look OK then you probably have to suspect the drive itself. For either type of drive, there is always the small chance that the IDE controller channel on the motherboard has died - I have seen this happen in rare cases. Your options then are a bit limited. IIRC, that PC has no USB2 and even if it did, it wouldn't boot from a USB CD.

You can get a PCMCIA interface card (now called simply PC interface) for an external CD. Depending on the card-drive interface, you might be able to boot from that.

If you need to install software onto the machine & have another (desktop) PC to hand: remove the disc from the E500, get a 2 1/2 to 3 1/2' disc adapter & temporarily attach the drive to the desktop as a secondary (i.e. Not boot) disc.

You can then load software onto the drive although you can't do a Windows install that way. If the machine already has an old version of windows on it, you can copy for example, the XP install files onto the drive, put it back in the machine & run an upgrade. Not the most desirable result but may be OK. Posted on Nov 03, 2007. 1 Answer SOURCE: have you heard of a pcmcia usb card? This is your solution. You can get some for like 10-40 dollars at NewEgg.com and other places.

Most stores like tARGET AND bestBuy don't have them, yet and if they do, they are ridiculously expensive and not well supported by those tech guys. Go to NewEgg.com and purchase one. You can plug usb flash drives and other usb devices into a pcmcia slot - where your old wireless cards would plug into before laptops started becoming popular with internal wireless cards built in. Posted on Aug 28, 2008.

1 x parallel - IEEE 1284 (EPP/ECP) - 25 pin D-Sub (DB-25) 1 x serial - RS-232C - 9 pin D-Sub (DB-9) 1 x display / video - composite video output - RCA 1 x display / video - VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15) 1 x keyboard / mouse - generic - 6 pin mini-DIN (PS/2 style) 1 x docking / port replicator 1 x audio - line-out - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm 1 x microphone - input - mini-phone mono 3.5 mm 1 x modem - phone line - RJ-11 1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX - RJ-45 1 x infrared IrDA 1 x USB 4 pin USB Type A Header.