Dv7-4157cl Entertainment Laptop - Boot help

Normally I would be the guy to offer help, find answers and type in steps to get to a remedy, but not tonight.
The laptop's S.M.A.R.T. hard drive routine has detected an imminent failure and so we have made a set of Recovery disks, but I also want to access the machine in order to check the "Event Viewer" logs BEFORE wiping it and/or replacing the hard drive.
Problem is <F2> for the S.M.A.R.T. error keeps coming up and I cannot get <F9>, <F10> or <ESC> to allow me to Boot from CD! I need to do that first because there is another utility program I want to run.
Does anyone know how to:
(A) Surpress the hard drive S.M.A.R.T. (imminent failure) message, or ...
(B) Get to the BIOS Configuration menu and make the necessary changes to access the Boot options on EVERY start-up?
Oh what a bother...
Thanks very much in advance!

Sorry, I think I have solved the issue!
Watch closely for <F2> to Run the Diagnostics and <Enter> to Continue Start-up. Press <Enter> and then go for <Esc> or <F10> really fast! I finally got the BIOS setup screen to appear and this may have been a case of fingers moving faster than the old brain.
Next I configured the post POST delay to 15 seconds from it previous value of "0" and this helps get to a screen where I can boot the CD utility I wanted.
Sheesh, it is tough being your own worst enemy sometimes...
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P.S. Just for reference purposes here is one posting on hard drive S.M.A.R.T. issues:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Recovery/SMART-Hard-Disk-Error/m-p/1028051#M3680

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