Originally Posted by
Lee_R21Turbo
I reckon you need to sort out those exclamation marks first on those hardware devices. They are the controllers for the hard disk & CDROM drives. Fix them & you'll probably find the CD drive will then show up & work.
Download the motherboard drivers from the Compaq website - what model is it?
Spot on that man

It's now sorted, it turns out that when I originally booted it up the battery was flat and it died almost straight away so I plugged it into the mains and tried again but for some reason it didn't boot up properly.. One re start later and it's sorted.
Pectel datalogger loaded and working
Thanks for all the help guys