Ok, first thanks for all your help. I took the battery out for about 10 minutes, put it back in and booted the computer. I got a low battery voltage message and then I got into the setup menu. The time, obviously back to 2001 and my HD and CD are still not noticed by BIOS. I'm guessing the default BIOS setting do not work. Is there any way I can get which BIOS settings this computer runs? Possibly from Dell.com? any1? Here is what it looks like right now: System Time .... 00:03:02 System Date .... Mon Sep 10, 2001 Diskette Drive A: 3.5 inch, 1.44mb Primary Drive 0: Unknown Device Primare Drive 1: Unknown Device Secondary Drive 0: Unknown Device Secondary Drive 1: Unknown Device Boot Sequence: 1. CD-ROM device (not installed) 2. Diskette Drive 3. Hard disk drive (not installed) (btw i have tried changing the boot sequence but no luck) Memory Information: blah blah CPU Information: blah blah Integrated Device (LegacySelect Options): Sound: on Mouse Port: on USB Emulation: on USB Controller: on Serial Port 1: Auto Parallel Port: Mode: PS/2 , I/O Address: 378h IDE interface: Auto Diskette Interface: Auto PC Speaker: on Primary Video Controller: AGP Video DAC Snoop: Off PCI IRQ Assignment: ATI Technologies Inc VGA Adapter: IRQ 3 Intel Corp USB adapter: IRQ 11 Intel Corp serial bus: IRQ 10 Intel corp multimedia: IRQ 10 network card: IRQ 3 Conexant comm adapter: IRQ 10 IRQ Reservations: IRQ 3: Available IRQ 4: Available IRQ 5: Reserved IRQ 7: Available IRQ 10: Available IRQ 11: Available IRQ 14: Available IRQ 15: Available System Security: This section has password stuff. Not the problem. Keyboard NumLock: on Report Keyboard Errors: Report Auto Power On: Disabled Remote Wake Up: Off AC Power Recovery: Last Fast Boot: On Suspend Mode: S3

Change the battery and clear the CMOS via jumpers instead. ○ Before you criticize a bigger man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do, you're a mile away, and you have his shoes ○