Cisco PIX 520 not taking ESC key from console connection

Using TeraTerm or Hyperterminal with VT100. I am not able to use ESC key or Ctrl-Break to break the boot process to go into password recovery mode. Does anyone have this problem or solution to this?

thanks,

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Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 5.1(4)

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