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couldnt find the pin...here ill post some images of the motherboard..maybe you can help me?..

WOW yes i did push the button it looked like it did something but it didnt do anything.. anyways does anyone have a picture of these pins..the friend died who was gonna put dos on it..so ill try to clear the password with this pin thing

Admin pw didnt work..anways im taking it to a friend who is gonna put DOS on it and the cdrom driver ...so i can go back to xp

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechS...01&locale=en_US are you sure this works for the laptops aswell because ive opened it up inside and never saw these "pins" it talks about pulling i just remember seeing a button next to the cmos battery

ok i just totaly fuxed it up..! i used the hd install method and i wanted to erase all disk to have a full hd install of mandrake so then it says it needs to boot up and then what happens absolutly nothign it deleted everything(which is it ment to do) byt including where the i saved the mandrake files where i thought it would save it atleast..NOW WHAT DO I DO

how do i do the hd install..make a linux partition?

GAWD SOMEONE HELP PLEASEEEEEEEE

and i noticed i got the same laptop as this guy here but it is 9.2 that i have and his is 9.1 do u think that will happen to mine "no sound support"?

ok do i put them in any directory? :unsure:

uh no when i run autorun.exe it takes me to the install mandrake part then it boots...and cant use floppy! i told u it can only use a floppy or cdrom at once ...and what about coping the files to my windows hd and then using the hd.img floppy to boot it would that install it?

thx for the help a lot!..but can someone tell me more about the coping the cd to the hd and running it from floppy. BTW if you need to know what the bios is, it is phoenixBIOS 4.0 Realese 6.0 hope that helps

are you sure this will reset the bios pw? and what will happen when i do press it

removing the CMOS battery will do nothing the password is stored in a EEPROM. currently it has Windows XP. anyways would i have to copy all the files from the first cd into a directory of my choice then boot it using the floppy and choose the directory to install it from?? :unsure:

i have a HP Omnibook 4150(laptop) Pentium 2, 300 mhz, 6gigs. Ive been wanting to install it for quite some time but no one can seem to help. IT doesnt boot cds-It has a bios password(i bought it cheap off of ebay cause of the password) and it cant boot through disk because it can only use one cd rom or floppy drive at a time. Anyways i tried booting it through disk but of course since there can only be one at a time it said couldnt find cdrom, after that it took me to this menu that said "Which driver should i try to gain SCSI access?" and theres a option that says cdrom.o and when i choose it it says "Please enter the paramiters to give to the kernel" well heres where i need your help-if i type in whatever command i need to and switch the floppy drive to the cdrom would it then read it? i know this is probably confusing for u im a newb though