Some CMOS settings can be persistent. How long was the battery removed? Try shorting the jumper again (pins 2&3) but this time power it up for 2 seconds or so. It won't POST, but this may kick it in the head. Power off again and switch the jumper back to pins 1&2. Any change?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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