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This has occasionally nagged at me, though the sounds from the DVD drive make me think it's GOT to be the boot device. Anyway, no, I've actually not seen the "press any key" message for a LONG time. Audible DVD sounds of spinning up and down and other circumstances tended to make me think this wasn't really a concern. But there's nothing I've found in (F2) BIOS per se to control the boot device. There is the (F10) boot device selector that comes up along with F2 as startup options, and I can move the arrow-controlled selected device to highlight the one I want, but there's no obvious way to latch that selection. F10 doesn't do anything at that point. "Enter" would appear to be the "save and exit" option, but...no, that's not really certain. But if that F10 selection worked, why would it ask me to "press any key...", right? I already told it I wanted to boot from the DVD, didn't I?
Another angle: is it really still possible, after booting with only the DVD (Win7 upgrade) and an "Unknown," "not initialized" and "Unallocated" SSD connected, that it's trying to boot from the SSD, while spinning the DVD up and down crazily... as what, an evil diversion?