Today I unboxed a HP DV6800 that Igot as a fix-me project.
The main issue was that the optical drive was dead. When I first tested it, I plugged in a bootable disc and the drive spun it up just fine... but BIOS didn't even notice that the drive even was part of the system.
My first thought was that it was a dead controller in the dvd drive... to test it, I grabbed an old TEAC CD-rom drive and swapped it for the dvd drive.
To my surprise, it didn't detect that drive either. Exact same symptoms. I'm 99.9% sure the test drive is good...
I looked through bios and all... no luck there.
The drive connector looked to be in good shape... luckily, its visible from the outside
Is there any known fix for this other than a new mainboard (I'm not counting external USB drives as a real fix)?
The main issue was that the optical drive was dead. When I first tested it, I plugged in a bootable disc and the drive spun it up just fine... but BIOS didn't even notice that the drive even was part of the system.
My first thought was that it was a dead controller in the dvd drive... to test it, I grabbed an old TEAC CD-rom drive and swapped it for the dvd drive.
To my surprise, it didn't detect that drive either. Exact same symptoms. I'm 99.9% sure the test drive is good...
I looked through bios and all... no luck there.
The drive connector looked to be in good shape... luckily, its visible from the outside
Is there any known fix for this other than a new mainboard (I'm not counting external USB drives as a real fix)?
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