Booting with No HDD or extenal media

I'm currently on a mission to get a laptop to boot with no hard drive, cd's/DVD's, memory sticks, lan or media cards.

Now I know this sounds insane but my Electrical Engineering lecturer basically put teh challenge out to us without relizing by going on record and stating "We are allowed to use laptops in the exam aslong as we clear the memory" She means wipe the hard drive by clear memory so I enquired and CD's etc. are band

So basically I just want to see her reaction if I can get into the exam. Take the hard drive out & any external media(CD's memsticks etc.) turn on the laptop and have it boot into windows or linux.

So far the only thing I can think of is mounting a small memory stick on the motherboard so that I can install a small version of linux or put a windows PE boot on it.

If anyone's got any better ideas than that let me know It should be hilarious.

 

That defeats the purpose doesn't it? In the end, it's still a memory stick.

Interesting proposition, but I don't think it can be done.

 

It'd probably be much easier to fake the blank hard drive, then to boot without a HD. Also, using the memory stick defeats the purpose as coriolis stated.

 

If you could just tap into the onboard memory of an integrated graphics card...

 

Memory gets cleared when you power off so using graphics memory will not work.

When i say using a memory stick I was thinking more like say one of those sreally tiny sony micro-vaults & basically soldering it to the USB header. thereby making it kinda like onboard non-volitile memory :s.

 

hmmm boot from an external source using a wireless connection? they mentioned no lan but what about wireless