Recovery Disc won't boot

Hello,
I have a HP Compaq nx7400. I've created Recovery Discs but they won't boot from start up screen. When I press F9 and pick optical drive the DVD is spinning from time to time and nothing happens until windows startup.
I've suspected that there might be a problem with my optical drive so I've borrowed an external DVD. The same thing happens when I startup from DVD USB external drive.
I have suspected that there might be somekind of a Recovery DVD problem so I've tested them on a different laptop. The recovery disk have booted without any problem.
I run out of ideas. Any solutions, please?

Try repeatedly pressing F2 immediately after pressing the power button and see if it will at least take you to the laptops BIOS screen (usually blue with a lot of hardware options). If you can do this, you could try going back to the toshiba site on a secondary computer, redownloading the BIOS update accept follow the secondary manual install procedure (usually requires a disc to be burned or put on a USB drive). By not completely loading the BIOS update correctly, you may have corrupted your BIOS firmware which is the essential hard coded software on the motherboard that tells the system how to initially load everything before handing it all off to Windows when windows starts. All that "start up" form the BIOS is what happens with the laptops POSTs or shows you the "Toshiba" screen initially for 3 to 5 seconds as soon as you turn the system on. Let me know if this helps.

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