Sometime this quarter, Dell Computer will likely surpass Compaq Computer as the world's largest computer company, according to a recent study. Round Rock, Texas-based Dell is expected to ship ...

Hewlett-Packard will announce today that it is acquiring Compaq Computer for $25 billion in stock in a bold move to grow as the computer business struggles with shrinking sales, executives close to ...

Compaq Computer Corp. reported Monday that its operating profit fell 21% in the first quarter, as it faced a slowdown in PC sales and aggressive pricing by its rivals that saw Compaq lose its top ...

Compaq Computer has signed three sizable supercomputer customers, the company announced. The Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute's Advanced Photon Research Center chose Compaq to build a ...

Compaq Computer took a swipe at rival Dell Computer this week with a new low-cost desktop PC. Compaq says its new Evo D300v is aimed at offering the lowest price possible for a corporate PC that can ...

"We give you choices" is Compaq Computer's motto, but in the past two weeks people have been more interested in answers. Why was CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, who transformed the company into the largest PC ...

Compaq Computer Corp., the biggest personal computer maker, will phase out its Alpha-brand server-computer chips and instead use Intel Corp. processors for its most powerful machines. All of Compaq's ...

Compaq Computer Corp. and the U.S. Marshals Service have seized a large quantity of what they say are counterfeit computer components from reseller Hardware 4 Less Inc. In a statement issued yesterday ...

Compaq Computer may soon offer PC buyers a tempting option: two for the price of one. Hoping to corral buyers who can't decide whether to buy a notebook or desktop PC, the Houston-based computer maker ...

Margaret Warner discusses the proposed multi-billion dollar merger between Compaq and Hewlett-Packard with Computer World editor Mary Fran Johnson. Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer have been fierce ...

Compaq Computer Corp. on Tuesday unveiled new products in its AlphaServer line, including the AlphaServer ES45 — a midrange Unix server that uses a 1-GHz, 64-bit chip — and the AlphaServer SC45 ...

Even with the old hard drive plugged back in I'm getting this error during POST.<P>I reset the BIOS settings back to default. There is no option to adjust the drive ...