DV9715nr difficulty booting from recovery disc

I have a DV9715nr running vista home premium (32bit) Phoenix Technologies BIOS version F.27 (Jan 2008)
Hard drive crashed the other day and had difficulties booting from the drive prior to crashing. Replaced hard drive and ordered recovery discs from HP to restor to original config.
First go round had some difficulty booting from the recovery disc but got it, 10+ hours later and it failed....most likely because i was impatient and stopped the FBIgui screen several times. so BOOTMGR is missing pres C,A,D. so I try to redo the recovery discs. Put in disc, turned off and turned back on. hangs at bios screen and then BOOTMGR error again. went into bios and moved DVD to top slot and same thing. Thought maybe it was DVD rom, so Ii shut down went to pick up an external USB one from walmart, approx 20 mins later got back and tried again without using the external USB, and it worked, but hung up a min later at loading windows files from the disc. Shut down and let sit overnight, retied again this morning and got to the first stage of reformatting, I think (i am not home now) but spoke with my GF who says it is asking for disc 1, which mind you is ALREADY in there. I had her pop the drive and close it again. Dont know what is going on now, but have a feeling it is hanging again, and I cant seem to find anything in any forum post, review or what not about this particular situation.
So to recap I have tried
selecting DVD as first choice to boot from
Hard reset
looked over all other setting in BIOS (very limited)
New HDD passed quick test
External USB does no better then the internal (yes even after switching BIOS back to boot from USB first)
Is the BIOS bad? can it overheat? is there a way to flash the BIOS without having an OS installed?
any help would be much appreciated, I am all out of options.
thanks

Thank you. I have already restored the BIOS to default multiple times. I did not however take out the battery. Took the laptop to a shop this morning to have them take a look as I was up all night dissasemling cleaning fan/heatsink, and reseating cpu with new thermal grease. That didnt even help.
My friend who works IT thinks the AMD CPU is the problem (Turion TL-60) but I am also researching about the No TPM or TPM has problem. evidentally that may be casusing the miss communication with BIOS and the DVD rom or any USB connected drive. Also tried a bootbale USB to reflash the BIOS but that didnt work, or I didnt create the bootable USB right.

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