Finally picked up a laptop with a CD and floppy drive, and it claimed to be working. I turned it on and it just kept beeping, no specific code, just a constant beeping (1-1-1-1, perhaps?). However, I found out that if I hit F2 right when the boot screen turns to black, I can get it to boot to XP and have it run normally. I'd like to wipe the HDD, but I can't have it boot from anything else, like a disk or a CD. Even if I take the HDD out, it tries to boot from the floppy, but acts real strange. I put in my DOS 6.22 booter, and it would read the disk and give a prompt. However, all the characters I type are wrong and it tries to "Abort, Retry, Fail" for eternity. Even then, it can only boot to floppy once in a blue moon. Whenever it boots to XP, it acts normal and runs as it should, if a bit slow. I've been trying to find out what could be going on, but I can't seem to find any reason why it won't boot normally, but can boot with an F2 being pressed at just the right time. It's been driving me mad for days.