Recovery disks process corrupted BIOS

Hp laptop 2000-350US. Hard disk failed. Ordered new disk and recovery CDs through HP site. Recovery started, last message I remember seeing is "hard disk will be formattedd blah blah". Next time I looked the screen is black and caps lock is blinking. Found a couple tips on what the blinking means, 2 blinks is BIOS corruption and possible solution is to reset it. Tried the hard reset trick but no good. Was going to try the next step in trying to locate jumpers or cmos battery. I have zero interest in sending this back to HP for more than I paid for new. Has anybody located the top secret jumpers or battery and maybe save me a few screws and cracked plastic to get to?

Don't bother wasting the $14 on 'recover' disks as they don't work for beans. It is sad to see 40 years of time has not helped software at all. This package could not even handle a different size drive making it next to worthless. I found an .iso of Win7 and a Microsoft tool that let me put it on a USB stick then recovered using that. Nice thing is all that HP bloatware is gone. Just install specific drivers that Windows does not have.

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