"NoNoBadDog!" wrote in message
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"***** charles" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have two questions:

1. how do I get the battery out of this thing?

2. how do I get it to boot to the dvd drive
since that choice does not show up in the
boot list inside the cmos?

thanks,
charles.....

I figured out number 1.

Number 2 is a lot tuffer. The only choices in the
cmos a detatchable bay, hard drive and net
boot. If I could get it to boot to the dvd drive
I could reinstall the OS. Any suggestions?

thanks,
charles......

Detachable Bay = bay the DVD Drive is in.....

Bobby

Thanks for the responses guys. I chose the
"go back to factory defaults" in the cmos and
it gave me a message saying hit any key to
boot from the cd. After that it booted to the
Windows 2000 Pro OEM cd just fine.

Nice little laptop but it runs a little hot.

later.....