Old School PC (Literally!)

Cymrobalch · 07-27-2007, 08:33 PM

I have recently acquired an old PC from my mothers school which was part of the school network. It's pentium III with a phoenix 686 Bios. The Bios was pass-protected but I sorted that out by taking the battery off the motherboard. THe networking software is the problem now. I can't access the PC as I get a networking prompt. I haven't got a name and password and these would go through the server for verification. Is there a way I can reformat and reboot and with a clean win 98 OS? There is only a floppy drive on there currently. Tried using an old win 98 boot disk, but it didn't do anything (I have changed the boot priority on the Bios to floppy). What can I do?

Deepblue · 07-27-2007, 09:11 PM

booting to a 98 disk should work if the floppy drive is working, if all else you could pull the drive put in your main system as a slave and format it

Cymrobalch · 07-28-2007, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Deepblue

booting to a 98 disk should work if the floppy drive is working, if all else you could pull the drive put in your main system as a slave and format it

Thanks, friend. Looks like I'll have to rip another drive from another PC!

INTELCRAZY · 07-28-2007, 12:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Cymrobalch

I have recently acquired an old PC from my mothers school which was part of the school network. It's pentium III with a phoenix 686 Bios. The Bios was pass-protected but I sorted that out by taking the battery off the motherboard. THe networking software is the problem now. I can't access the PC as I get a networking prompt. I haven't got a name and password and these would go through the server for verification. Is there a way I can reformat and reboot and with a clean win 98 OS? There is only a floppy drive on there currently. Tried using an old win 98 boot disk, but it didn't do anything (I have changed the boot priority on the Bios to floppy). What can I do?

haha.....sounds like Novell, I picked up a PC from school one time and I couldn't install a NIC because of a Novell limitation config.

vonfeldt7 · 07-28-2007, 12:39 AM

^ ^ haha my school has novell...they[novell] know what they're doing, thats for sure.

Cymrobalch · 07-28-2007, 12:41 AM

What is Novell, might I ask?

INTELCRAZY · 07-28-2007, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Cymrobalch

What is Novell, might I ask?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell

My school used to use Netware v5.0, screwiest OS in history...

ThatGuy16 · 07-28-2007, 12:50 AM

Ahh, i hate Novell

INTELCRAZY · 07-28-2007, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ThatGuy16

Ahh, i hate Novell

I do, too.

ThatGuy16 · 07-28-2007, 01:07 AM

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Originally Posted by INTELCRAZY

I do, too.

Some one at school found a way to not boot up running it, dont know how... but they did

07-27-2007, 08:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cymrobalch New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 3	Old School PC (Literally!) I have recently acquired an old PC from my mothers school which was part of the school network. It's pentium III with a phoenix 686 Bios. The Bios was pass-protected but I sorted that out by taking the battery off the motherboard. THe networking software is the problem now. I can't access the PC as I get a networking prompt. I haven't got a name and password and these would go through the server for verification. Is there a way I can reformat and reboot and with a clean win 98 OS? There is only a floppy drive on there currently. Tried using an old win 98 boot disk, but it didn't do anything (I have changed the boot priority on the Bios to floppy). What can I do?

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