Do these computers have a true bios in them? According to Compaq F10 is supposed to get you in but after many attempts still no bios trap. The system was purchased used bare bones, no hard drive, no memory. I threw in a 32 meg DIMM and 1 gig hard drive and it was detected and booted up right away into win98SE. Error at boot was time/date not set F1 to boot. So I hit F1 and it boots. Setting the correct time and date in windows fixed the time/date error. The HDD was a pull from a Dell P120 machine. Does this sound right to you guys?