2) I am asking question 1 because this machine had a virus... which upon rebooting to complete removal the machine would show the windows moths flying around and coming together, than a fast flash of a blue screen with white letters, then it would begin to boot again... in an endless loop.

The BIOS has no settings for it. It will boot from a flash drive. I would like to boot from my Acronis 2013 Recovery Console CD. Anyone have any success to boot from a USB CD/DVD drive?

I have installed Linux on my machine and was observing the battery status. In the fields "Energy when full" it is showing as 65W, while the design energy is 69W. What is worrying me is, this number is reducing rapidly! (2 days back, it was 65.8W)