The posting of the “BIOS” passwords has led to intense scrutiny and concerns, with the state government flying and driving election staffers to all corners of Colorado to update affected machines.

Do this if BIOS is not showing on the external monitor. Change the primary monitor and switch the display port order to show BIOS on the secondary monitor.

I turn on the computer and the screen won't even turn on and computer won't POST i set the thing in the BIOs to 166/133 because when it POSTed before it said the CPU speed was 1250Mhz. Right after ...

I think the minimum you need to see the BIOS diagnostics is the CPU and a video card. A stick of RAM might or might not be helpful too.