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Thanks alot for the responses, but I relayed the wrong problem..First off,
the pc I am trying to fix, I formatted the hard drive, not knowing that I
wouldn't be able to access the bios afterwards....now, I want to reinstall
Windows 2000, but I'm having a problem, nothing will work when i try to
install, and I cant access the bios, so I need to make a disk with a
softpaq(I think)but the only ID I have for the sick machine is deskpro
2000 and I know that is 166 mhz...Evidently, I need to obtain a softpaq,
which requires me to know certain information that I should have got from
the pc before I formatted the HD....I'm under the impression that I need
this softpaq to fix the bios, or reinstall it...I think it was on the
HD...(does this thing have a cmos?) I'm really confused here...never run
into this problem, and like I said I'm doing this to help someone who cant
afford the local repair shop...Second, the softpaq that i need must be
DL'd onto floppy from my computer, which is NTFS...the sick machine is
FAT....will the info on the floppy(softpaq), which will probably require
me to make a boot disk for the sick machine be compatible with the sick
machine FAT if the disk is created on an NTFS? If not, I will have to use
an old pc at a friends house, but that is 35 miles from my home..I've
tried that when I thought I had the right "softpaq"(if thats what I need),
and I dont know which of the 15-20 some odd softpaqs available at the site
I was at is the right one...if anyone can tellme the right one, or what
other information i can get from the inside of this thing, and where it is
to narrow my search, I would appreciate it very very much...God bless you
guys for trying...sorry to give you the wrong idea to start....dave