Gateway Laptop Operating System Not Found

[P3ANUT]

Hi, Well i was given this gateway laptop its about (3 years old)
Problem is every time i start it up it (beeps alot it stops after 6-7 sec.) and it goes to the BOIS (Phoenix) Menu. When i restart it again i press F2 For the Boot Menu
and i get this message "Enter HDD Password" I don't know the password. I get this message after trying to guess it "Hdd Password Failed !!" "Cause Hdd No Function!!"
Then after all this Information starts to pop up, At the end of it it saids,
-"PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE Rom".
-"Operating System Not Found".

I took several pictures so you can probly get a better understanding what the problem is i winrar them up.

http://www.mediafire.com/?2z0hdyyjxmt

-Thanks for you help.

 

[CCT]

To stop the "PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE Rom" disable booting from Network in Bios.

If you were 'given' that comp, why weren't you 'given' the password?

Have you just tried pressing 'Enter' when that prompt comes up?

If it's XP, try booting with an install disk (set bios boot sequence to cd, hd) and do a repair install.

edit: and I'm not going to open a 'rar' on the internet from someone I don't know from Adam!

 

[kimsland]

I didn't look at the pics because your info was enough.

Does your computer have a floppy disk (I'm assuming yes)
Create a bootdisk, by inserting a blank floppy in your drive
Go to My Computer
Right Click on your A drive
Select format
Select create boot disk

Once the bootdisk is created

Download Clear CMOS from HERE
copy it to your A drive

Start the computer with the floppy disk in it
Boot off the floppy
at the command line type CLRCMOS
Press enter
Wait 15 secs
remove the disk

Restart and go back into CMOS
Setup the date and time
Load setup defaults
Confirm your hard drive is automatically detected

Now, you can get into CMOS, and do whatever, but it sounds as though:
Windows is not loaded
Windows bootup is corrupt
The hard drive is not mounted correctly
The hard drive is missing
The hard drive has failed

Because it's trying to boot from the network

 

[P3ANUT]

To stop the "PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE Rom" disable booting from Network in Bios.

If you were 'given' that comp, why weren't you 'given' the password?

Have you just tried pressing 'Enter' when that prompt comes up?

If it's XP, try booting with an install disk (set bios boot sequence to cd, hd) and do a repair install.

It is Xp or was Xp. How do i do a repair install?

-Thanks for your reply

 

[P3ANUT]

I didn't look at the pics because your info was enough.

Does your computer have a floppy disk (I'm assuming yes)
Create a bootdisk, by inserting a blank floppy in your drive
Go to My Computer
Right Click on your A drive
Select format
Select create boot disk

Once the bootdisk is created

Download Clear CMOS from HERE
copy it to your A drive

Start the computer with the floppy disk in it
Boot off the floppy
at the command line type CLRCMOS
Press enter
Wait 15 secs
remove the disk

Restart and go back into CMOS
Setup the date and time
Load setup defaults
Confirm your hard drive is automatically detected

Now, you can get into CMOS, and do whatever, but it sounds as though:
Windows is not loaded
Windows bootup is corrupt
The hard drive is not mounted correctly
The hard drive is missing
The hard drive has failed

Because it's trying to boot from the network

Hi thanks for your reply
But the laptop does not have a floppy.

 

[kimsland]

Create a bootCD and burn the ClrCMOS file to it as well.

HowTo create a clean BootCD

 

[kimsland]

Hang on I just thought that if your Bios is presently not setup for booting CD and it's password protected; that may be a concern !

Please check first by placing a boot disk (CD) in the drive, and confirming that it starts it.

If it does - refer to the above
If it doesn't - we are going to have to try another method in clearing your CMOS ie short the CMOS jumper pins (a bit difficult on a laptop though)

 

[P3ANUT]

Sorry for the late reply
It recognize the bootdisk
First it ask for the HDD password again
then it went into the bootdisk setup (blue screen)
then it list the drive asking me what partion i want to install
windows xp etc.
i chose the present one and it told me that its on (LOCK)

I switch the drive into a different laptop i got stuck at the same place.

So what do i do next

-Thanks