The cmos battery is just like a large watch battery. Not hard to find at all. If you have a 98 boot disk, put that in there and boot off of it (if you can) once you get to the prompt, goto the cd drive and browse your linux disk. Go to the boot section on it (cant remember what it is called) and find the autoboot.bat file. once you are in the same directory as that, just type in autoboot and away you should go.