mind to tell me wat's the shape of the plug for the charger? coz my my frend gt her charger fried during thunderstorm, and now she cant charge dont know know wat problem, is it the charger is the same as V3000 and other HP model?

coz i own a V3000 and i can use HP charger...

Compaq charger is universal among the models



This post has been edited by underGr0und_8: Sep 16 2008, 11:40 AM

bro i heard vista 32bit capped at 3gb ?

How can we get upgrade with remote control for CQ45 model if buying at any store at lowyat plaze?

After I installed at my lappy I will let u know. haha.

Anyway, My Core2 Duo PC with Vista 32bit shows it's 4gb.

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Added on September 16, 2008, 8:53 pmI dont think the remote control is available for CQ45 models this moment. Also I dont find it useful. If watch movie, why need remote control amid the laptop screen is so small?

This post has been edited by cloud9_lee: Sep 16 2008, 08:53 PM

charger for the new CQ series is different from the previous V3000 series. the new CQ series uses the same charger connector as HP Compaq business models.

i got the same price at thundermatch with rm2 parking rebate in cash

no need to wait....

ooooooooooooo....... if i knew it earlier. Still waiting for memory arrival. :S

erm..abt the remote,it is selling at rm60
but i not sure how it work as it may only work with windows media player, which hardly use by me, i use realplayer more often

Actually remote control can use during presentation ma.., a lot of presentation for final year

Whee, got myself a CQ40-125AX a few days ago. Came with FreeDOS so I formatted it and put XP on it. It's OK overall but I have some problems/questions/complaints:

1. One and a half hour battery life by web surfing only? Must be the ATI HD3450 sucking all the power. Any battery upgrades I can consider?
2. Bad driver support, HP website only has some of the drivers (e.g. no wifi and card reader drivers, graphics driver cannot detect hardware ). Took me literally days of googling to get all the hardware working.
3. My fingerprints on the lid!!! ARGH!!! Interested in some kind of stick-on protection layer (if such a thing exists)

On an unrelated note, why the heck do HDMI cables cost RM70??? I wanna plug this baby into my parents' HDTV!

1. try compare with other cq40-125AU/AX user, see whether it is isolated case for the fast battery drain, it may be the AMD power consumption as well. try ask brother lee, his cq45 is with a nvidia also. you can choose upgrade to 12-cell, but havent out for this model yet

2. from who you buy? shld have help you with this even with freedos

3. heard of alot invinsible shield

4.it is high tech stuff mah

Heard AMD processor are high in battery consumption is high plus AMD processor is easy to get over heat, ATI is under AMD, so normally those laptop which come with AMD will have ATI graphic, ATI is working perfect if the processor is AMD. Anyway shuld get a centrino 2 processor as it save 50% power consumption compare to centrino 1.

wow...not even 2 hours ya?? or the ACPI driver din't install properly??

I tot HP provide full drivers for Win Vista?? unless u plan install XP

huh !? XP driver !? wher u got ur driver o ? HP not release and XP driver for it... i also looking for XP driver too... hehe

Try Vista bro. I always advocate for Windows Vista Ultimate, u will like it especially the Dreamscene display feature, Laptop Power Management feature, Windows Defender feature, Add/remove start-up programs feature (via Windows Defender), Automatic windows update, etc etc.. AWESOME le... 2GB RAM is enough to run Vista effectively.

1) AMD laptop proc always consume 30% more power (my own assumption) than Intel laptop proc. Battery upgrade is an expensive option, save the money for other purposes e.g. Memory upgrade la. Use AC power whenever possible.

2) I believe Compaq Presario regardless AMD and Intel proc, they are using same common parts except display driver only. Refer to my 1st post and find the suitable drivers la. Good luck bro!

3) I've done a brilliant idea on my laptop lid (front cover). I bought a 19" LCD screen protector film and applied on it. Cut the edge accordingly. Frankly the screen protector isnt for this purpose but it works.

4) HDMI cable - Until you've seen this RM270++ HDMI cable (Click Here). You wouldn't complain RM70 is ExPeNSiVe. haha.

This post has been edited by cloud9_lee: Sep 17 2008, 04:23 PM

I brought CQ45 compaq laptop for my friend, the seller told me that it cannot install XP as it will roll back, the spec is Centrino P8600, 250G harddisk., how come it cant install XP? The harddisk is E-sata wo

here http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums...hreadId=1263528

after all done, please update here

Woot an official member of the Compaq Presario CQ Series Club now Just bought a CQ20-125TU upgraded to 2GB of RAM and installed a genuine Vista Home Premium on it. Only 1 complaint which is the same as yu_wang:

The cover is too glossy for its own good. So many fingerprint marks on it already

As for the drivers I too had problems downloading at first but apparently I think its more due to browser problem. Couldn't download with firefox but IE no problem.

This post has been edited by sigheart: Sep 17 2008, 05:41 PM

Yes browser problem. Download using Firefox points to nowhere at HP ftp server, but IE works fine. Dont blame Firefox, blame HP.

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Added on September 17, 2008, 5:51 pmIf it works out fine, will copy your URL and put at 1st post. Easier for all. Big credit to you.

This post has been edited by cloud9_lee: Sep 17 2008, 05:54 PM