Re: Missing Optical Drive?
Did you try a load defaults in the bios?
Re: Missing Optical Drive?
that may be one of the bioses with two different ways to enter it, giving you different abilities. Some compaqs give you general info on a bios entry, and you have to enter a different keypress to get into it and be able to mess with boot options, etc.
Re: Missing Optical Drive?
That's true...some mb when pressing F11 or shift + F11 open a different menu
Re: Missing Optical Drive?
Most Compaq/HP laptops require F10 to be pressed to gain access to the BIOS. If the cdrom drive is not listed in the BIOS then either the cdrom is faulty or the M/B is needing to be replaced.
To confirm if the cdrom is faulty, put that drive into another compaq laptop and test it. Not all cdrom drives for laptops work in all laptops. Compaq/HP have a habit of designing cdrom drives that only work in their machines.
Hope this is of use.
Computerman :)
Re: Missing Optical Drive?
also, the "laptop cd-rom to sata adapter" runs about $4 on ebay. I have one because you just never know when you might need to test one. Actually i have one because i bought one for a htpc i was building and they came in a pair.