Armada 1100 - this seems to have been removed from their advertising.
The Compaq Armada FAQ
This is version 0.01 of a Frequently Asked Questions list about the Compaq Armada.
If you don't see your question answered here, and find the answer - tell the Armada list, or me, and it may end up here sooner or later..
The Armada is a family of portable PCs made by
Compaq.The family is rather huge, with members of wildly differing performance.
The subfamilies include:
Armada 1100 - this seems to have been removed from their advertising.
Within each family, there are a number of family members with different performance - and naturally, different price tags. Usually, the top of the line has a 266-MHz MMX processor.
It seems that Compaq sells most of the Armadas with Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95.
People are also running Linux on them; there's no reason to think that FreeBSD, OS/2 or other strange OSes will not run either - but Compaq gives support only for NT and 95, naturally.
Compaq has a fairly well organized support site at
http://www.compaq.com/support/portables/; you can quickly and easily find the category you want. Unless you have a 7370, that is - for some reason, some models are simply not listed everywhere. For the 7300 family, only the 7330, 7350 and 7380 are listed under their "NT" pages, for instance. I suppose the service guys know which family member is "the closest one" - I wish I did!Most models come with some kind of warranty; most problems with hardware are fixable under warranty.
On a 4130, Josh White experienced problems with keyboard reliability; there turns out to be a bizarre type of connector (basically a set of wires resting on the keyboard) that may need cleaning.
It's a very flaky part - Compaq USA now has a lifetime warranty on the 4000 keyboard, and Jonathan Keith says:
Yes, it is a very flaky part. A temporary repair is to loosen the two screws in the bottom middle of the system (Torx 8, I believe) and push down pretty hard from the top as you slowly and evenly tighten those screws back. The actual keyboard repair takes all of ten minutes and is worth doing.
Despite what Compaq will tell you, they use very standard parts for nearly everything. People have been reporting basically zero problems with every kind of standard IDE drives and standard memory modules.
(Someone wants to drag some names in for this space?)
Well…two ways to crash land your system found so far:
Under Win95, hibernate to a FAT32 partition. Apparently this is "not supported", so if you want more than 2 GB of disk, keep a non-FAT32 partition around for the hibernation file.
(A rather weird one): Repartition your drive, reinstall the OS, and hibernate.
It seems that the location of the hibernation file (size of your memory + 2M) is stored in the CMOS memory, and when the machine hibernates, it does NOT go via the file system to find the file. If you move or remove the file, it will still save to your old location.
Solution: Install Compaq power management software and recreate the hibernation file.
(At least on the 7370, you CAN hibernate to an NTFS partition)
Here's a partial list of Armada models, with a few facts I feel relevant about each.
|
Name |
Weight |
CPU |
Screen WxHxColors |
Typ/Max RAM |
|
1530 |
3.39 kg |
Pentium 133 |
800x600x256 |
16/80 |
|
1540 |
3.37 kg |
Pentium 150 |
800x600x16M |
16/80 |
|
1550 |
Pentium 133 |
800x600x64K |
16/80 |
|
|
1560 |
Pentium 166 |
800x600x16M |
16/80 |
|
|
1580 |
Pentium 150 |
800x600x64K |
16/80 |
|
|
1590 |
Pentium 166 |
800x600x16M |
16/80 |
|
|
1592 |
3.40 kg |
Pentium 233 |
800x600x16M |
32/96 |
|
7370 |
2.72 kg |
Pentium 233 |
1024x768x64K |
32/128 |
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