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Both hard drives are Quantum Fireballs. ONe is 13GB, and the other is
5GB. I have it hooked up like I thought it was before, and it still
won't boot.

This suggests you do not have the drives connected
and jumpered as formerly when the PC booted OK.

How to you clear the memory?

RAM requires power to function, i.e. is cleared every
time you reboot.

Even if the jumper settings were not correct, couldn't I still see the
bios boot on the screen?

Can you boot to a startup floppy? If you do not have one,
download the (correct) one from www.bootdisk.com. This
would give you DOS with CD drives enabled even if
hard drive connections are still wrong, and allow access
to the main board BIOS before that.

I did use a WD Chart for jumper settings, and it seemed to work. The
chart on the hard drive is a bit confusing, but I could try to use that.
I am not positive how I got it to work before. When I was
messing around in there, I noticed that some of the juimpers that I had
never used were bent. I do not think they were touching, but they
might have been. I pried them apart before trying my last boot.

In your place I should use Quantum information to jumper
Quantum drives, not WD. But you do not need extra information.
You can draw a chart of all possible permutations (guided by
what you read printed on the drives), then select the cases
likeliest to work, then try each in turn, keeping a written
record of results. Relying on memory alone, you may
waste time repeating configurations you have already
discovered do not work.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)