Laptop DVD Drive Disappears in Vista

PROBLEM: As soon as you put a CD in the drive, the drive letter disappears.  The drive also disappears from the device manager
MODEL: HP laptop with Nvidia chipset (dv6748us)
Have Vista 32bit with SP2 and all other updates installed. Installed latest BIOS and chipset drivers from HP’s site. Laptop has an IDE drive interface. I tried a CDROM and it works, but tried multiple DVDRW and DVDROM drives and none work.USB DVD drive works. No filter stuff in the registry. Putting it to sleep does not bring it back. Scanning for hardware changes in the device manager does not find it again. Only comes back after reboot.
No option to change IDE/AHCI setting in the BIOS.
I did a factory restore and it still does the same thing.
I tried doing a clean install of Vista from a DVD, but as soon as Vista setup appears it says something like "A driver for the DVD/CD drive is missing" Please inset a disc with the correct drivers.  I tried downloading NVidia chipset/RAID/AHCI drivers from Nvidia's site and from HP and loading them, but to no avail.
Any other suggestions besides just using a USB drive from now on?

Same exact problem here but also note that neither the webcam nor the DVDROM is found in the Device Manager.  Also BOIs wont allow changes to info.  Recently updated to F.32 with the same problem. 
THinking about trying some old BIOS to see if they make a difference.  Also noted that my Pavilion DV9925nr shows as DV9700 in the BIOS so is the 9925 a sub version of the 9700?

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