BIOS issue with my Qosmio G40-10E

Hi
Im desperate I have to access my computer before Wednesday or I could lose my job. Ive installed a SSD drive which went ok. I have adjusted the BIOS settings and now my computer wont boot .
It goes to the Qosmio logo and to a logos of hdds' usbs etc and hangs. I cant get into my BIOS as it seems to ignore the key press to go into BIOS (tried ESC, DEL, F1, F2, F8). The computer stays on the icon screen. I have taken my machine apart and removed the rtc battery its been a day but it hasnt reset the bios to default .
Has anyone any ideas? Is there a jumper/ dipp switch on mother board to reset? Is there a special key to press I dont know about? Where ahould i hit it!!!!
Any help would be greatly appreciated I will be in serious trouble if I cant get my machine working I know I ahoukdnt have mapessed ith BIOS but I assumed at worse I would be able to access and reset .
Thanks o much for any advice
phil

> I have taken my machine apart and removed the rtc battery its been a day but it hasnt reset the bios to default
This was the worst thing you could do removing RTC battery would not reset the BIOS.
This was possible on desktop PC but doesnt work for notebooks.
To be honest your issue description isnt very useful you said you are not able to access the BIOS. If notebook does not ask for BIOS password, you should be able to access the BIOS pressing ESC and F1
I guess this should work of course in case you did not damage the motherboard by removing the RTC battery.

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