Can't boot up into Setup -- SOLVED!

[Jona Joachim]

Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear Miguel and friends:
> 
> A million thanks for your suggestion to try another keyboard. You were
> right on the money! I tried a cheap Micro Ergonomic keyboard ($15) and
> instantly my Dell 8200 responded when I hit F2 and opened up the Setup.
> And, imagine, I spent $56 on the Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard at Office
> Depot. Who would have guessed?
> 
> So, that problem has been solved.
> 
> Benjamin

You should have checked out the FAQ:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/funnies.html#LETMEOUTOFHERE

You're pretty lucky that your soul wasn't damned  ;)