Ok, i was working at my school, because i work there and get paid, i was out back by the dumpster, and i found a pentium III 450mhz gateway, with 128mb ram, 20gb hd, now i took it home, booted it, and it gives me some errors, it goes to the gateway screen, stays there, says press f1 to view the system info, so i do so.... it says an error about the time, and about drive a, i press f1 to go into the setup panel, i set the date and time, i try to fix drive a, and save and reboot, when it reboots it says it updated some settings, for example the floppy, cd rom, then it gives me errors again about the time, and drive a, if i press enter to continue any way, it just says no os found, becasue i cleared the hd to try to install xp on it or linux, now, i replaced the battery to see if it was that and it dont seem to be, i think that it is in the mother board?, any comments plz?

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What is the problem? No OS found means you need to install an OS. The A drive error is probably asking to insert a disk or press enter to continue.

No, see the battery was taken out. See the system info reset so i dont know how to put in that drive a is the hd and all that. I know there is no os on it, i put the cd in the cd drive, and it spins but doesnt start the cd to where windows xp boots.

I just need help in the bios settings. If you need pics just tell me ill show u what it looks like..

Drive letters are assigned by the operating system, so I don't think you need to worry about that. In the BIOS you need to look for device boot order or something like that, where you specify the drives the machine checks for bootable media.

If some devices aren't listed, check to make sure the BIOS sees them. If not, check all jumper settings and power;

Well you need to make sure the boot order has CD-ROM before HD. Make sure that the CD-ROM you are using is an actual bootable CD-ROM. Make sure that you have the HD and CD-ROM drive set up as 'auto' in bios.