Rectangle marquee tool is rounding at the edges, how to I revert to sharp edges?

The rectangle marquee tool is rounding at the edges of my selections and when I try to fill with solid color, it fills very transparently and almost water-color like.
I don't know how the settings were changed, but I need help reverting them back to normal.
FYI: When I select an area using the rectangle marquee tool, an error message pops up that says "Warning: No pixels are more than 50% selected. The selection edges will not be visible."
I am not very savvy with this program, but need to finish creating a flyer by this afternoon. Please help!

Hi,
You probably have a feather value other than zero set in the tool options bar.

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