text: i have a toshiba tecra 8000 and it wont start windows or boot any cds? this terca sucks....like badly.....someon gave it to me to fix. it gets to the windows 98 loading screen thing and it says missing files blah blah blah and to hit r to repair... im like ya sure. any way it didnt work and i want to reformat it with a windows 98 cd but i wont boot any thing. i tried to get to the bios by holding/hitting f2,f10,and the del key but none of them work. is it the bios chip thats broken or is like toshiba using a different key. i want to just open it up and manualy reset the bios by taking out the back up battery but i cant seem to get it open. if u have n e ideas on how to open it or to accualy get into the bios or if there is someway u can boot from a cd it would be much appreciated. ty f1 is the bios key, if it dosent work, press all the f keys at the same time and delete during the post and it shall give a error saying to check the bios and then you press f1 simple as that.