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Thanks for that... but alas, it's not <Esc>. It is actually F9, but is highly dependent on the manufacturer of the motherboard. I have lots of PII/P3 motherboards with Award BIOSes at hand and, after checking all 23 of them, I found only two supported the F9 after-POST boot device selection screen. ...

Hi all, first time in, long time viewer. This site's been great! Now, on some styles of computers (most notably Acers) one could press F12 while the machine was POSTing, to allow selection of the first boot device. This is really, really, really helpful when in a public environment, the first boot d...