My CD/DVD Drive isn't recognized by device manager or my Pavilion dv6809wm anymore.

I have a Pavilion dv6809wm, and it originally had Vista 32 bit installed. I upgraded my RAM, hard drive and OS (to Windows 7 64-bit) about 2 months ago, and it was working great. Beginning of last week, my cd/dvd drive stopped working. I go into the device manager in the control panel, and it doesn't show any cd/dvd drives. I checked in the BIOS, and it is present there. The LED light is flashing. I went into the registration editor and removed the  upper filters, hoping that would fix it, but it is still flashing at me. I've tried using the Microsoft Mr. Fixit, and tried using the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter, as described at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060 and http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Open-the-Hardware-and-Devices-troubleshooter . I've still got nothing. Any suggestions?

Well, now based on something that I saw when I hit escape at the hp splash screen makes me wonder if this truly is the problem... It said "No TPM or TPM has problem", which, when typed into Google, led me to another thread on the HP Support forum. http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/HP-dv6810us-NO-TPM-or-TPM-has-problem-error-in-BIOS/t...  When I read through the thread and replies, I'm starting to see that this is endemic, that is, a problem that is common to Inspiron dv6000 series computers. I can't really afford a $250 solution, and I only spent $800 on the darn thing in the first place. I guess I'll have to revert to country boy mentality: use it up, make it work, make do with what you got.

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