Nope, none of those numbers are going to work. It should begin with 34297-OEM- etc., that indicating Compaq. As a test, I went to the link I gave you, filled in the form, and had a COA number in 15 minutes. YMMV.

>And the bootable disketter has some numbers on it, but not COA numbers to me. under All Rights Reserved on the diskette label it has 3 rows of numbers.
>AK-RP3QA-CA
>242569-004
>MPR171053
>
>None of those are COA I doubt.

Nope. The bootable disk gets you running with CDROM support in case the BIOS won't allow you to boot directly from the CD.

>If worse comes to worse I will borrow a number from a Compaq Windows 95 COA at work so I don't waste any more time and money. I imagine that's illegal, but Compaq is a pain to contact. And I am not too hot on their Compaq forums and how they work either.

Hey, I agree. I used to be a stockholder. Now you can't give me a Compaq desktop. Server or laptop, maybe...:>)

Good luck. I hate used computers. About as useful as a used copier IMNSHO.