Old School PC (Literally!)

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Cymrobalch

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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?
 
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 said:
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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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.
 
Hahahaha We use Novell at my work and i support 5000+ user running it .. its not that bad. it has some good points about it
 
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