System wont go into bios setup

I called HP support to help me fix a display adapter problem.  I had set the screen resolution to a setting higher than could be displayed by my monitor.  I asked the guy how to boot the computer in Safe Mode so that I could change the resolution.  This guy had no idea how to put the computer in Safe Mode.  After an hour or so of him having me restart the computer, and push buttons, I finally got frustrated as this guy obviously had no clue what he was doing.  I told him tha I would figure it out myself.  Well, I finally got the resolution fixed, but durring all of the powering up and down the hard drive boot sector got corrupt.  I ran a repair on it, and got it fixed without loosing my data or programs.  All was fine until I completely shut it down.  Now, it wont Boot, Post or anything.  After complete power down, I removed the Cmos battery for a minute, replaced it, and tried again.  A couple of times a screen came up telling me my clock was wrong, press F1.  I pressed F1, but nothing happened I powered it down and followed the steps to reset the Password, and Cmos by moving the Jumpers.  Both jumpers are now back on the two posts closest to the hardrive connection. Now I have a new issue.  The computer spins up, all fans come on.  The Blue light on the Power button is Blue, not Yellow.  When it initally spins up, the Yellow light for the hardrive is amber, then goes off.  In less than a minute, the computer powers down for about 10 seconds, and then starts up.  Then in less than a minute it starts the cycle all over. Please help, Bill 

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