brad wrote in message ...
Cool thanks for the help and the url you suggested. The
Compaq is a P3. That helps in understanding more about the
computer. I will try what you suggested and let you know
if that solves the problem

In the meantime, I do have another problem that could be
easy or difficult and I am not quite sure which one yet.
Here it goes.

Dell Dimension 4400
I turn the computer on and the green light in the power
button turns on like normal; however, nothing else turns
on. There is no sound of a hard drive humming and there
are no sounds from the internal speaker.

Best Buy suggested that it is a hard drive or motherboard
problem but there is a fee to examine it.

Could it be a power source problem. I haven't spent much
time with it yet but if nothing turns on...

Again any suggestions would be great and thanks again for
you help thus far.

Let me know if you need any other additional info.

Trying a boot disk will go a long way towards tracking down
the cause of the problem, and may eliminate the motherboard
and/or hard drive and/or power supply from the list of suspects.

You are running from an external power brick,
and not the internal battery?