So much worthless conjecture. Techtosterone overrode. To answer the question at hand: If your CMOS is truly toast in every way you can buy a new one with your appropriate BIOS flashed on it from a place like http://www.biosman.com/ There are probably issues because it's a laptop. Could be a hardwired CMOS, who knows? BTW: If the CMOS it toast then the hard drive could have the meaning of life on it and it wouldn't matter. since when can you bootstrap from a floppy? BBTW: Don't listen to me I'm a dumbass. PHPTOm wrote: >If anyone can steer me in the right direction as yo how to get a bios on a >clean compaq armada laptop, I will give you a million dollars. > >TOm > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list