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I might have just used the wrong key to enter the Bios.
Yes, the drive setup and components are very nice int his build. but
all the stuff is soldered in.
Considering that they were going to chuck the thing, makes you wonder
what sort of tech support was at the company that dumped it.
The drive clips are stuck in there pretty good so I haven't used any brute force
to get them loose. I see where they pinch to pull out but may need some
persuasion.
There is a 20 Gb drive in there (don't know the manufacturer yet,) the
box is listed as a 1Gz processor.
My replacement drive that I set up on another machine has Win98 on it.
It's a 5 (five) Gb Maxtor I'm giving away to get this working. The largest
spares I'm willing to part with that work are 15Gb.
I've used my Microsoft Boot disk floppy but it still stops at the 'bad disk'
error and I can't get to setup.
I am just getting used
to using Win2k for myself for larger files and having some problems with that.
So my question still is, how can I get cd rom recognized.
I'll try F8 and report back....
Ok, I'm back. There must be some secret to getting a BIOS screen
because nothing is getting it.
The hard drive seems to be running and I am running boot nuke on it to make sure it's clean. I can do a scratch install if necessary rather than
doing a drive replacement.
Also, though I can't see what's keeping those HD clips from releasing
there is no play and they do not budge.
From there I want to put Win98se on it using my factory MicroSoft
boot disk and cdrom.
Where can I go to find out how to simply get past that setup screen?
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