Satellite A10 - boot priority needs to be changed

Hi everyone,
I've got an old Satellite A10 here, and I'm supposed to put a new operating system on it.
Problem: It doesn't let me boot from CD/DVD!!!
In BIOS (APCI BIOS version = 1.30), I cannot change the boot priority, that is I cannot set the DVD drive as first boot device.
Pressing F12 or "C" when switching on the notebook doesn't show boot options either.
In another thread I read that one can change the boot device by selecting the boot devices' images that can be seen below the TOSHIBA sign when the notebook's power has just been turned on. How do you do that? Arrow keys and TAB dont work for me....
In the windows startmenu, there's the TOSHIBA utility HWSetup that is password protected. In the manual it says that you can change boot priority there (from inside windows!), but unfortunately the owner does not remember any password he might have set, so I cannot change boot sequence from there either.
but anyway it must be possible to boot from CD without accessing windows, in case windows doesn't work any more...
Is there still another possibility than using a "Parallelport wraparound connector" seeing that I don't know how its made or used?
Who's got ideas?
Thx

Hi R2D2,
as I wrote in the problem description above, pressing C and F12, or any other of the F keys, or even all at the same time ;-) does not show me the boot sequence.
And of course I do use the right buttons in BIOS, as the "manual" is even on the same page, on the bottom. It just doesnt let me select and thus change the boot priority!!
Knowing or not the right buttons is really not my problem here - except you know how to toggle the different boot devices shown below the TOSHIBA start up screen (cf above)? Know what I mean??
I SUPPOSE the problem is that TOSHIBA notebooks use this utility called HWSetup accessible from inside windows to change the vital boot functions, but the password for that tool is lost! And my best guess is that this tool blocks the BIOS functions.
The only solution I have come up with is to build and use this thing that deactivates any system passwords, this Parallelport wraparound connector, but as I dont know how to build it, I was looking for another solution as I still dont want to believe that TOSHIBA actually made it impossible to formate this notebook without an operating system on it (or access to this HWSetup from windows respectively)!!!!!
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