I'm in quite a pickle! My Acer's harddisk is get

[Gigabit]

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)]

[jstigall]

It says it right when you boot up.

"Hit F12 for Boot Selection Menu"

Select Cdrom and there you go.

[Gigabit]

Oh man! I cannot believe I missed that! THANKYOU!!![unworthy] For some stupid reason I was confusing the F12 option with Window's safe mode and all that, so I didn't even give it a second glance. Well, that's what these Fora are all about, right?:-)