Emergency! frozen caps lock, pc does not boot!

[DaveVentresca]

Any ideas? I was playing Savage 2 on fedora 10 with an hp dv6500 and nvidia geforce 8400m gs. All the sudden everything froze, keys non-responsive, caps lock stuck on. I hold down power & force it off. When i try to boot up i get a blank screen with the caps lock on again and nothing happens. This happened once before & last time i was able to fix it by removing the hard drive and booting up just the bios to run tests, but this time i removed the hard drive and try to boot, but that did not work. Computer turns on, all lights are on & keyboard is non-responsive, caps lock stuck on. I then tried to boot with no hd and no memory hooked up. Same thing again, blank screen, fans on, keyboard non-responsive, caps lock on and nothing happens. Please help!!!!

[Jake]

Well, booting with no ram would usually cause a blank screen, as no memory, no booting. Simple as. so taking out memory will not fix anything.

Have you tried resetting bios, by taking out bios battery for 1-5 minutes, then putting it back in? Also, check your ram in another computer if possible.

[DaveVentresca]

Where is the bios/cmos battery on a dv6500?

[DaveVentresca]

That worked, any suggestions on how to keep this from happening?