what's up shan..ok..we were able to get into one of them..the one that made it to the password log on window..the one that had the password to boot wasn't having it.. we even took it apart and still couldn't find the c-moss battery...anyway we got past the password logon window using partitions magic 8.0..it took a couple of tries though but finally got windows 98 on if anyone knows where the c-moss battery is on this puppy is let me know thanks in advance..(digital HiNote vp) laptop