"Ed Cryer" wrote

| It would work if the thing POSTed; if it went into the normal pre-boot
| sequence, gave you the choice of enter BIOS, change boot order, boot
| from current setting.
| But (and this is where I can't be 100% certain) I don't think they do;
| they go straight into boot from C and pick up in the Win setup sequence
| where the sysprep has left off.

That's hard to believe. I have seen awkward
designs, where you have to set it to boot
from CD and even then it will ask approval
before it does. And it can be hard to get
into BIOS when you have to press a certain key
at exactly the right moment. But I've never
heard of such a thing as a computer with no
BIOS access at all. Usually there are things in
there you might need to adjust on occasion.