gummipolarbear my nc6000 was BIOS locked and Harddisk Locked... what i mean is that i could not enter bios in any way i knew and he HardDisk was Locked.. it required a Password to unlock .. what i had to do was replace the hdd to be able to use it for installing an os. and what i must remind you is that eaven when it was locked both bios and hdd i was able to boot from the CD intro a linux Live cd distro.