Help my computer won't get past hp blue screen!

My computer is an hp p7-1019 and it won't go past the blue hp screen. I recently enabled intel vt-x on my computer and it rebooted by it self and it is stuck on the blue hp screen.

I cleared the CMOS (BIOS settings) according to:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/D​ocument.jsp?objectID=c02854392&lang=en&cc=us&taskI​...
and the system recovered.  Obviously, this may have also cleared other BIOS settings, but for the moment the system is running fine.  Please pay special attention to the warnings that no jumpers should be changed while the system is powered on and that the power cord should also be removed for this.

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