G560 Hangs At Initial BIOS Screen

Today I was attempting to install FreeBSD on my g560. Somehow I managed to muck up and now I fear I may have corrupted my hard drive. Anyways the title states the problem, I can power on, but all that I get is the initial bootscreen, pressing f12 does nothing and pressing f2 causes it to say its entering setup but it never does.
Is there any way I can recover from this? I'm not too worried about data loss since I was planning on clearing my hard drive anyway, but I really liked this machine and I don't want to loose it/have to replace it. Anyone out there have any suggestions? I just need to find some way to get it to boot, I don't care what into...

Removing the hard drive should indicate if it is the hard drive or BIOS that is corrupted.
When removed, you should be able to enter setup and access the BIOS settings.
Don't know if this will help though.

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