But a power cycle wouldn't work if its inside your computer?

Buxtyy wrote But a power cycle wouldn't work if its inside your computer?

By your logic then a power cycle would be completely useless in trying to solve any issue...

Take the little watch battery out of the motherboard buxtyy is trying to say, however, as I actually own one of these, I know they have problems.

As I suggested, is there anyway you can install an OS onto a second hard drive to make troubleshooting easier?

Guys it is a pc as I stated in the op.i have full access to every component

Got a solution. The power cycle didn't work so I was going to see if a windows install disk would recognize it and it did. I rebooted and vwola it worked! Thanks for all the help!