I have recently purchased 3 motherboards that I was told came from HP Brio BA410 computers. The problem I have is when I installed one of these mobos into another computer everything works fine except that it will not boot from the hard disk and during the BIOS checks it displays the message "CAP Security - Boot from HDD Prevented". It can still read from and write to the hard disk, it just will not boot. I believe this is some additional security added by/on behalf of HP. Although there are no identifiers on the motherboard, according to the BIOS number it was made by FICA but there is no reference to the particular model on there web site. If there is no way round the problem itself is there any way to start windows 98 located on the harddrive by using some type of bootable floppy or CD.

have you tried clearing the cmos or updating the bios?

Yes I've tried both with no difference, the only bios update I could get was from HP which must include the same security features. I have seen a simular problem posted on another message board and the only responses that got indicated that only authorised HP resellers could overcome these security features. Someone please tell me this isn't the case.

hello you could still try reflashing with the same bios you may get in if old settings completely waiped by flasy you should have the option to set this security feature. cant hert.

hello you could still try reflashing with the same bios you may get in if old settings completely waiped by flasy you should have the option to set this security feature. cant hert. you might allso try a comercal flash sight like www.badflash.com or depending on bios make you might get away with a free custuom flash. might try www.eksitdata.com www.wimsbios.com

The HP CAP Program is for distributors to purchase bare units and configure them to a customers specs with HP approved parts - then they run a special utility to log the parts into the HP database and provides a CAP Security Key to "seal" the BIOS - There really is no "Fix" for this - HP recommends that you return the PC (In this case the Board) to the place of purchase.