Pavilion dv9700 not seeing optical drive as boot device

Let me start from the beginning:
1) user brought laptop to me, wouldn't boot.
2) I ran hp diags on harddrive, they failed
3) I replaced harddrive with off the shelf drive
4) ordered recovery disk (dvd) from hp
5) on recipt, tried to boot from recovery dvd:
             - recieved error "missing ntldr"
            - rebooted, hit F9 to select boot device, only harddrive listed
6) tried external optical drive, same result
7) called hp, ordered new optical drive, same result
Is it dead jim?

I have the EXACT same problem with a DV6815...
My BIOS settings are identical to the OP's...
But when I try to select the boot device, only the HD is listed...
I have swapped out more than a half a dozen drives (drives that I know are good) with the same result.
On 2 of the drives, they worked (IE they were recognized and available when I hit the Select Boot Device screen) but after a reboot, they were gone again..
I have dissassembled the laptop, cleaned the connector real good, but nothing has helped.
I wonder if it could be a BIOS issue???
Michale
Additional Info:  I got kinda excited because the BIOS version I had was F.30 and I noticed there was a newer version, F.32.  Unfortunately, it did not fix the disappeared CD/DVD drive problem.. 

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