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I bought a used Dell latitude D610, and found out too late that the BIOS is locked.

I have Googled for solutions, and the only one that I can find is to jump a chip with a paper clip.

There...

That fix worked like a charm! Thanks so much. You saved me a lot of time and aggravation. I used Revo Uninstaller a few days ago, and that's when I noticed this issue. RU found almost 4000 Nero...

Thanks for the reply.

I have changed the setting to "Yes", and still getting the code 39, which I have Googled.

Both of my LG optical drives have the code 39 error. I have tried uninstalling and rebooting, to no avail. Drivers are very hard to find. I did find firmware updates, but I don't want to install them...

I would never have guessed that the CD Drive was an issue. I needed you guys to point that out.

Thanks a bunch.:)

I would like to thank everyone for your patience and help.

I am now up and running 98SE due to all of your valuable input.

Thanks again. :t

I have installed an LG CDRW that is 5 years newer than the HP Writer, and I have previously tested it, and it was working at that time. I am currently running a Surface Scan on the HDD, and would...

O.K., I'll do that first.

Thanks. :)

I tried again after cleaning the CD, to no avail.

I then put the HDD in an external enclosure, plugged it in to my "real" PC, and explored it.

It has a WIN98 folder with 101 files, mostly .CAB....

O.K. Will do.

Thanks