It sounds like you're up for a CMOS reset. The thing is, you have to get to it. Disconnecting the battery is what'll make that happen (there might be a jumper that'll allow you to do that). Otherwise, you can try removing (disconnecting) the HDDs and booting off of a floppy. If you can get the comp to boot, especially with the PCI video card (best that way), then you should be able to get into the bios and reset the values to default.
I've had a brand new system lock up on me, even though everything was set right. I found out that it was due to a cmos reset jumper which was badly set to <reset>, instead of <run>. Of course (thanks Murphy!) it was the only jumper that was not documented, nor labeled.
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