Default selection for boot menu?

[W B Hacker]

Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
Addendum: pressing the F1 key does nothing.  Keyboard just beeps at me when I
press a key.
Jonathon McKitrick
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My other computer is your Windows box.
Is there an MBR with a 'broken' boot manager or bootable image on the device the 
BIOS is pointing to?

If there is none at all, there will usually be a BIOS error message.

It sounds as if, instead, the BIOS believes it has made a sucessful hand-off.

HTH,

Bill