the PROBLEM is the manufacturers directions on how to RESET the password,
they clearly say in the DIAGRAM the section of the board, in the book i got when purchasing it..
but on the real board, the switch doesnt exist.. but its identical in every other way.

is their any other way to reset it? i do have a software method but i cant get far enough into the system
ive tryed the administrator passwords for pheonix bios the ones they have built in & my personal one , i tryed running it without the battery for 10 seconds , i think their must be a VIRUS on the board itself.. i dident set a user password ,about 9 months ago it did it itself.. only difference then my administrator password worked. so  i got a prog to change the user password to blank , and it worked for a while..   .. i noticed theirs a file on the C:\ drive from astalavista that is only viewable under hex editor , and even then it wasent deleteable, even after format.. and 3 new hard drives , the hard drives would work good for a while.. but after about an hour of internet connection they would start making weird noises and start
freezing constantly .. and the file would reapear..

I also had an xbox with the rare protege harddrive on it, i had it cracked and installed into my computer to do a mod on it ,  i think it must of spread to that to because now my xbox turns on and the green symbol flashes red and it displayes a message in japanese i think.

is their any way to fix all of this?

we could help better if we had more info on the computer components manufacturer etc.

have you tried removing the battery for a few minutes, or the small jumper for a bios reset it is usually on one pair of three pins, you lift the jumper/connection and put it over the other pins
for example if it is on a+b then put the jumper over b+c this clears the cmos/bios but only sometimes the password unfortunately
 if we knew the make and model of the motherboard it would help a lot.The Phoenix bios website says that the motherboard hold charge for a few days after the battery is removed. It also says to overcome this by discharging the mortherboard. To do this it says to place a 10 ohm RESISTOR across the battery terminals after removing the battery. If you only remove the battery without also doing this then the bios probably won't reset to default vlaues.

No guarantees...I'm trying to understand this stuff myself.

See:

http://www.phoenix.com/en/Customer+Services/BIOS/BIOS+FAQ/default.htm#Q39

Good luckI love your pollJust remove the battery for ~10 and make sure the PC isn't connected to the power grid or find the jumper switch.

Unless this is a laptop, it should work just fine. A board will not get a virus...