|It has 32MB ram, it's a P120 old gateway desktop.  For some reason,
|can't get into the bios either to set the HW date.  Tried, F1, F2, del,
|space all to no avail.  Just remembered that.

Try F10 / shift-F10 	some of the older IBM's used that, I don't remember
what Gateway used to use, but it might work...