"John" <John@falseaddress.com> wrote in message
news:471191ea$1@clear.net.nz...
> This is a Sony PCG 9A4N. It's a Japanese key board model (My wife is
> Japanese).
> I took the cmos battery out but not for more than a few minutes and it
> didn't loose its date... It could have been 5 minutes or so???
> I have to wait until she comes home before I attack it further.
> When it attempts to find the operating system I hear "tap, tap tap tap
> tap"
You are hearing the sound of a dead drive.
Jim