Equium A80-132: Cannot select options in advanced boot menu

I'm having problem with my equium A80-132 ...
When i boot it up, it keeps going to the page " windows didnt shut down properly.... Boot in safe mode,last good known configuration... etc..."
I know thats an operation system error, but the problem is that i can't select any options neither go to the Bios, using the keyboard F2 function...
Dont know if if something with the keyboard... even when i press the arrow to select an option, it wont move/work.
But it does restart when i press Alt+Ctrl+Del... for the reboot shortcut.
Anyone have any idieas??
thx in advance

Hi,
There is one situation where the BIOS will not let you select the boot menu (F12 on my Tosh) to select an alternate boot device (nor will let it you enter the BIOS configuration, F2). I think it will sound strange but I can guarantee that it is behaving so on a Toshiba P200 PSB6. This is when Windows is in hibernating mode (last shutdown was "go to hibernation mode"). Believe it or not but the BIOS will force to boot from your Windows internal drive and will ignore any F12 key to select the boot menu.
This is the very first time that I am experiencing that, for instance some other BIOS will let you boot from a usb flash disk whatever the state. I agree that it makes sense to protect your Windows filesystem, as if you decide to boot Linux from a usb key and write to the hibernated Windows internal HD (Ubuntu will not let you do so but some other Linux could accept to write to an hibernated disk), it could result in a total file system failure.
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