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it's possible that BIOS is corrupt?

Actually for me it doesn't seem to be a likely cause of your problems.

But I don't have any other ideas

1. Perhaps istead of a CMOS battery the PD-1000 has a nonremovable battery or capacitator, (like Pocket PCs have) and this gets complete discharged when you leave it for three days. 2. Maybe a loose contact 3. Maybe its overheating 4. Leave it again for three days and try again. Then maybe re-flash ...

Did the PD-1000 work with this specific hdd before?

If not,

Take a look at http://www.duxcw.com/dcforum/DCForumID5/447.html item number 6

Anyway, maybe you should try uninstalling the hdd and see if it can boot from a floppy?

Did you try a different hdd?

This is just an idea. I'm jsut making this up so I'm not sure you would want to try this.

Is there any battery on the motherboard (other than the removable battery of the PD-1000 itself?).

If there is, maybe removing it and all otehr batteries for some time will reset the BIOS?

Now I see your video, althouh blurry I agree this is a nightmare

1. Does the same thing happens when the PD1000 is connected to AC power?

2. Try disabling the hdd and boot from floppy.

3. Does the BIOS remember your changes after you exit it and then returned to it?

The PD1000 comes with a 'port treplicator' which conencts to the rear of the PD1000 and to it you can connect a special floppy disk drive or a CDROM drive. Do you have this disk drive or CDROM drive? Can you get access to one? As far as I know, access to a PCMCIA floppy disk will only be possible af...