None of the keys that google tells me could bring me to the BIOS screen (F1, F2, etc) does anything. I guess I don't really know if my keyboard is working, but I can't imagine what would make the keyboard croak after just a
few months.
Do you have anything else you can boot? Otherwise you may have to press those keys before you power on to try to get them loaded for the BIOS to see. E.g. your BIOS boot options may be saying boot "quietly" which means try to boot from the first bootable
device ASAP. "Bootable device" may give you a workaround, again, depending on your settings. E.g. having a bootable DVD, or USB stick, or floppy disc might give you enough time to get into your BIOS screen too. Or at least boot something other than the
problem partition.
I don't know what hitting tab is meant to do, but it does nothing. I don't have external speakers.
Then hitting Tab won't help. Typically, after two presses you would have hit the Accessibility menu which would have let Narrator give you a clue about your location on the screen. Then you could have enabled Narrator and let it guide you around in the
darkness. ; )
FYI
Robert
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