T43 BIOS Setup for CD Boot

[newthinkpadder]

Hi
What a great forum so much info !! I ve had a good look around but need a bit of help if possible as I have not quite found a right answer yet. I have recently acquired a T43 Type 2669UYY,I believe its an old business machine, I have already put in two 1 GB sticks of memory to speed it up a bit, and about to upgrade the 40Gb HDD to a new 80GB HDD.I ve tried to alter the boot up order in the bios but it seems to have a supervisor password set up, so can t get it to boot up from CD any ideas or links to possible answers, many thanks in advance. G.

[Neil]

Have you tried pressing the F12 key during the boot splash? IIRC, that should bring up a boot menu without the need to enter the BIOS.

[newthinkpadder]

Hi
Thanks for the reply but, the F12 option only gives me the 1. IDE HDD 2. PC LAN Network boot options

[Neil]

OK...those are probably the only two boot devices selected in the BIOS, and without access to the BIOS you are pretty much stuck.