Gigabit
03-02-2003, 04:00 PM
I'm in quite a pickle! My Acer's harddisk is getting very noisy, and doesn't always boot. So I would like to replace it. But here's the problem: the ESC key is completely dead, so I can't change the boot drive sequence in the BIOS. I have tried using USB keyboards, but the BIOS will not listen to them!:(:(:(The harddisk is listed ahead of the CDROM drive currently, and I can't change that. If I put a blank new harddisk in the machine with the current BIOS settings, won't it stop at the harddisk and return a "non-system disk or disk error" message and never even boot to my restore disk? Does anyone know a work around? Sure a new keyboard will fix things, but I don't want to go that route if I can help it, I mean, who need an ESC key anyway, exept for configuring the BIOS options of course.[B)]