Satellite C660-2EL wont boot

Hi guys,
after a few solid days of frustration here I am.
I'm working on a friends Satellite C660-2EL
It was stuck in the endless Win 7 boot loop and would not be recovered by any means.
So I decided a format was the way to go.
After the format using partition magic everything was going smoothly.
I reinstalled Win 7 and the setup was also going fine. Once the setup was completed and it did a restart I decided to pop into the BIOS and amend the boot order as I had set it to CD drive first. So after changing the settings then saving and exiting the damn thing refuses to boot at all now, not from CD HD or anything else.
The toshiba screen flashes up but when I hit F2 now it just freezes saying entering setup.
When I try to hit F12 the screen goes back to the blinking curser.
If I press nothing I get the blank screen with the curser.
I saw a video on you tube for resetting the CMOS, I've tried this with no luck.
Any ideas guys?

You are not able to access the BIOS???
Damn :( this does not look very good
Did you check RAM?? No? Remove the modules and try to boot up the unit using one module in each slot. Test both modules
But since you tried to reset the CMOS (not sure how you did it) it could be possible that your motherboard is already damaged.
This means that new mobo is required and this is expensive part

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