Desktop hangs on BIOS screen

Hi, I have an Elite H8-1010 desktop PC. I was trying to install Windows 8 on the computer and changed to order of my boot sequence so that it would start from the hard drive first and not the CD drive (every time the computer rebooted during the installation it would start from the disk and try to start the install all over again). Anyway, after I changed the settings I saved them in my BIOS and restarted to hopefully continue the installation. No such luck, all the computer does now is hang at the BIOS screen and proceed no further.
I have already tried unplugging everything from the mobo (except CPU of course) and the computer beeps like it should, but when I have it with just the essentials plugged in (CPU, graphics card, RAM and boot drive) I get the same hang at the BIOS screen. I also tried changing the jumpers to reset the BIOS according to the mobo sheet for my computer on HP's website, but the picture of the jumpers they have does not match what is on my mobo.
I'm really hoping there is a way to fix this and that it's not because I somehow fried my motherboard. Any helpful suggestions are much appreciated and welcomed.

HI,
Unplug your boot drive (HDD) form mobo and then chekc. if you are getting sucessfully POST screen of your mobo then you have a faulty HDD.
try to reformat HDD with some other tool and then try to install new os in it.
Hope it helps!
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