I have been given an old puter i want to play about with
I have blitzed the hard drive with cleardrv.
But the win 98 boot up disk i downloaded from the internet does not seem to work.I have also found that the cmos is password protected can anyone help me ?Thanks.

First, can you boot on ANY floppy?

If not, try cleaning the FDD.

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"does not seem to work"

That's... pretty informative.

Did you just copy the downloaded boodisk file to a floppy? That won't create a bootable diskette - you have to execute the file first, from your hard drive.

You may be able to clear the CMOS with the 'clear CMOS' jumper, if present (go figure).

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Check the mothermoard manual for the CLEAR CMOS jumper, otherwise unplug the power cord and remove the CMOS battery on the MoBo for a minute.

Most boot disks downloaded are WinImage Self-Extracting to floppy therefore you will need to do this to make a bootable floppy.

Is not the W98 CD bootable??

I would just like to point out that most motherboards take more than a minute without the battery to clear. Some may take all day without the battery or power cable before it clears.

"Is not the W98 CD bootable??"

No, only 98SE (and not all of those), as well, older machines may not even support that feature.

Seems to be something of an echo...

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Hi everybody. I have the problem. Can anyone help me? My computer is Compaq 233Mhz,128Mb dimm,VGA 2MB, cdrom and floopy disk drive. My VGA is PSI. I want to conect AGP VGA, but its turned off in bios. I can't get into my bios. I tried everything.
Please help me with my bios!!!
Thanx