First post, by Vipersan
I've been putting this lappy off for a while ..on account I can't make any progress with it.
In short ..I'm not able to install a new operating system.
From what I have read so far ..all the BIOS is not actually resident in the machine ?? but is usually to be found on a hidden partition on the hard drive.
Thus ..no bios ...no changes .
It came with windows 98 installed on the hard drive..this boots fine ..but I cannot add a floppy drive.
presumably because it wasn't present at install.
This is a certainly an odd machine.
Dont think I've ever seen a laptop with no bios as such.
Obviously there must be some sort of bios in there or the hard drive wouldn't boot at all ..but there is no 'post'
all I ever see is the ram check ..then straight to win98..and no key presses interupts this process.
I tried F1 F2 F8 F10 F11 ..
but nothing doing.
I guess I need that so called hidden partition which if still there _somewhere_ certainly isn't accessible ?
rgds
VS