Compaq Presario SR5710F Desktop PC
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Compaq Presario SR5710F Desktop PCs are perfect for checking email, surfing the web, and making calls over the Internet. With a clean, functional industrial design, this streamlined PC blends easily into any home. Whatever your personal needs are, Compaq Presario PCs provide you with the best bang for your buck. The SR5710F ships with Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit edition with Service Pack 1, 2.30GHz AMD Athlon X2 4450e+ Dual-Core Processor WITH 1MB L2 Cache, 3GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM memory (1×2048MB and 1×1024MB for ultimate performance) (expandable to 4GB), 250GB 7200RPM Serial ATA hard drive, SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technoloy, NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Graphics with 128MB dedicated graphics memory, and Integrated 10/100BaseT network interface. Dimensions: 6.67 (W) x 16.77 (L/D) x 14.85 (H) approx., 21.25 lbs.approx. more info
It likes to go to sleep in the middle of things
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
It is an acceptional computer, good with streaming video and have 15 or more windows open with 5 or more programs and no issues. the only problem is that it chooses to sleep in the middle of me doing something, still using keyboard and mouse moving. it does not wake up unless I push the power button sometimes two or three times.
You get what you get, but Windows isn’t 64-bit
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
It is what it is – a blazing fast bare-bones computer for less than 400-bucks. However, whoever wrote this description is off their rocker. It doesn’t have the card reader and it comes with 32-bit Vista – not 64-bit as advertised. Oh well…
Overall, no regrets here.
I liked it.
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I have basic needs on a PC: internet, word processing, video and pictures. This computer is fast and does a fine job for my needs. Please realize that it only comes with a 60-day free trial of Microsoft Office. If you want Office, you’ll need to purchase it separately.
Great Desktop Computer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this computer for my daughter to replace an E-machine bought last year that turned out to be a piece of junk. For the three months that we have had it, it has worked perfectly for us. Also at $369, the price was right. I would strongly recommend it, or similar Compaq products, assuming they work as well as this one.
AWESOME COMPUTER!!!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS COMPUTER! It has enough memory for all of my needs! I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who wants a new computer! It’s silent and VERY easy to work with!
No Stars
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
I’ve had this computer for about six months now and thoroughly hate it. This is my 10th year for buying Compaq computers and this is by far one of the slowest processors I have ever used. They make slower ones because I bought one of those also. I tried to buy a card reader for it through Compaq and they told me that they would not sell me one even though the computer has the slot for it. I am really disappointed in everything about this unit and will replace as soon as I can. Most of my computer purchases last for 3 to 4 years. This one will not make a year. I got what I paid for and less. Another feature is that I randomly get an update and the computer shuts itself down with out the option of saving what I was working on. Sweet.
Perfect choice for a second Windows Vista machine.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This is a perfect choice in case you need Windows Vista second machine for student, etc. My daughter as a student uses it a lot for Internet research downloads, e-mail, word-processing, and etc. My wife is happy with Internet research, e-mail, word-processing for teaching materials. Windows Vista are working very stable with good performance. Microsoft Office has good performance and no problems.
Reinstallation of software from main machine was not very tricky. This machine is coming with Norton Internet security latest version pre installed. On my main machine I have Norton 2006. It was easy to follow the instruction and replace new version of Norton Internet Security with needed 2006. One trick to reinstall Adobe Photoshop CS2. After installation I have problem to register the software. The error message was like you don’t have administrative rights. The solution is posted on Adobe web site. You must open the Windows explorer. Then go to your Adobe “exe” file. Open file properties panel and select the check box – open as administrator. After this is done you will be able to register your software. For any specific errors with adobe – their web site is very helpful. If using screen calibrator hardware device make sure cable will reach our machine. I placed my desktop on the floor. The cable from “Huey” was short to rich machine’s USB2. Instead I’m using the USB2 located on front panel of my printer.
Affordable Deal!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
My computer crashed and I needed a new one quick. While not a fan of vista this computer with Vista Home Premium exceeded my expectations. It is fast and vista was easy to learn. I like the case design and having microphone and headphone jacks in the front are much easier to use then the ones I had in the back. I do miss the ablity to have slots for my camera disks built into my computer. With the anouncement of windows 7 be available I was excited, but dissapointed I had missed the cutoff for a free version, by purchasing this before their start deadline. Other then that this is a great computer for the price.
Great Desktop
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I bought this Compaq for my mother and she loves it. The computer was as described and came faster than expected. As with all Compaq products it was an easy color coded setup and she was surfing the internet in no time. She was amazed at the performance this computer was capable of. But of course, her last computer was from 1995. HA! A great desktop for those that want a powerful pc for their home office.
HP has no suport
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
No support, October 9, 2009
By Stan Tomberg (Hendersonville, NC) – See all my reviews
On 1/01/09 I called customer service (that is what they call it). I told the tech my internal lightscribe drive would not burn label’s. I am not a not a novice and I went through all the steps – uninstalling the drive and reinstalling the drive, etc. I told the the tech that my external lightscribe drive was working fine so it had to be the drive. He had me duplicate all the steps I Had already done and after 1:05 he said he would send me a new drive it was under warranty got my credit card info and he put me on hold. After 10 minutes (1:15 total time) I hung up.
I called back after I cooled down and got a tech who saw what was done, bur insisted to let him take over my PC. He assured me it take only 20 minutes and I agreed. An hour and 35 minutes later I told him just take of ordering the drive (it seems the first tech did not it. Hr agreed and then after being on hold for 5 minutes he told me the system was down and I would have to call back on 11/2/09.
Both techs had bad attitudes and treated me like a dummy. I wasted two hours and 40 minutes of being insulted and talked down to!
Price can not overcome lack of service
compaq pesario computer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
great price. have been using it about three weeks and love it. got help on phone as to which model that would best suit my needs.
250 watt power supply
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
FYI—–250 watt power supply
In case you read other reviews and wanted to upgrade the video card. Some say they added the video but don’t say if they upgraded the power supply. You might be wasting your time AND MONEY!!!!! Question to the other reviewer’s, did you have to upgrade the power supply?
June 27, 2009 update: I’m adding an EVGA 7200GS PCI-E video card. Technical support @ EVGA said this card with 512 megs should work, even though the product box says it needs a 300 watt power supply. I’ll update if anything bad happens! after I install it.
Update June 28, installed and works great, for dual monitor support.
COMPAQ PRESARIO SR5701F
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Great product. Has power and responds well to commands. HP has set up an excellent customer support system.
A tremendous buy!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I was looking for a new PC for my mate. Previously she had my old one and it is about 8 years old and had been upgraded to the max. I bought the compaq Presario SR5710F for under $350. It’s 3gb RAM and 260gb hard drive make it more than adequate for her needs. Plus it’s made by HP. HP and I go way back. I’ll never buy another brand as long as I can get an HP. The real topper for this deal is I used my Amazon store card and got the PC and the monitor interest free for 6 months. Strictly an outstanding PC at a great price with terrific terms. Need I say more?
Affordable, and mostly reliable, but . . .
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Okay, it’s always annoying when people let other things get in the way of their review of a product, such as the morons who give a good product only one star because they had a problem with Amazon’s customer service or something else.
So I’m giving this computer only four stars because, frankly, 10+ hours of dealing with Hewlett Packard’s inept tech support staff warrants a slightly lowered rating.
My good ole Gateway p.c. finally died, so I needed a replacement quickly — and I didn’t have a lot of money to spend. I had done test drives of Vista on friends’ computers and wasn’t thrilled to have it forced on me, but XP is unfortunately a thing of the past. The good news is that I got Vista configured so it looks similar to XP. The bad news is that some of my older software took a bit of work to get Vista to accept it — for example, I had to contact HP to get updated drivers so my printer would interface. This was very frustrating, because I’m just not tech savvy enough to know what to look/ask for — I’m a whiz at operating computers, but I know little of how they run.
There were numerous times I had to contact HP’s Compaq tech support, and although those people in India are very nice and courteous, they are not in a hurry to get anything done — every time, what should have taken ten minutes at most took upwards of an hour. One of these times was buying the extended service plan — good lord, how long can it take to notate my choice, run my credit card, and issue a confirmation number? And a HUGE warning — always, ALWAYS have the model number, product number, and serial number handy if you have to call tech support, because even after you register as a customer, they will ask for all three numbers every time you call. Evidently, their database technology — perhaps in use since, say, 1490 — can retain your name and contact information, but God forbid they actually log your product information. Needlessly frustrating. Fortunately, everything seems to finally be “smooth sailing.”
I was greatly relieved when, after initially hearing some negative reports, it turned out that Vista easily reads older Microsoft products — my Office 2003 stuff loaded effortlessly. This was a big deal to me, since a lot of my computer usage involves Word and Excel.
After two months, I’m still learning and streamlining things. The infamous Vista pop-ups are not as annoying as I thought they would be, but maybe some of the updates from Microsoft have curtailed the pop-ups. For what it’s worth, I really dislike the Windows Media Player 11 — I think I had version 8 on my old computer, and it was easy to use, but this version 11 monstrosity is unpleasant to navigate and eats up a fair amount of RAM while in use. If you know of an excellent alternative that can play stuff and do CD ripping/burning, please post a comment to this review.
One of the things I like about this computer is that it runs so quietly and doesn’t put out heat — my old Gateway was a thermal nightmare. The only real drawback to the computer itself is that I can’t figure out the sleep and hibernate options at all — I’ve tried them all, and the computer will jump to life on its own after a minute or two. Naturally, I’m loath to yet again call India to try to find a solution to this dilemma, but I’ll have to soon — I use the computer several times a day, and I don’t like having to completely power it up and down each time. [Suggestions?]
I’ve rambled, but I thought it important to mention all the stuff about HP’s tech support and the Vista interfaces for anyone thinking of buying this [or another] HP/Compaq that uses Vista.