The tech crash was about internet stocks with high share prices and no earnings.
That most certainly wasn't HP.
Like most stock crashes -- almost every stock crashed when the dot com bubble (propped up by smoke and mirrors during the Clinton sham economy) popped.
I'm not saying Carly was a good, or bad, CEO - I don't know. I didn't work at HP, nor followed them all that closely. She made a risky maneuver in merging with Compaq, and trying to reinvent HP - and it failed. I don't know if worse failure would have occurred if she had not tried the reinvention. My comments just have to do with the stock crash -- the dot com bubble struck most companies - particularly any company considered to be 'High Tech'.