Compaq CQ71-145EZ HDD upgrade to SSD

Dear all.
My Compaq CQ71-145EZ hard drive is giving the rattle of death, so I decided to replace it with an SSD (SATA II, 128GB, OCZ Octane).
When I replace the existing drive with it, however, the BIOS does not recognize it. I get an error 3F0 and a message saying there is no disk drive.
I have InsydeH20 F.23 Bios installed, but an unable to find a way to get the advanced features of the BIOS that I saw mentioned in other forums.
Can anyone tell me if this machine can take an SSD? WHat do I need to do to get the machine to recopgnize the drive?
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You need to head on over to the OCZTechnology.com forums. You can use the tutorials that they have prepared for all types of OCZ SSD installs. You have to prepare the SSD for the installation.
Here is a link to the 2013 OCZ Technology ABC Guide for SSDs.
You can download and use the OCZ PC Bootable toolbox to setup the SSD. Without a partition on the SSD it will not be recognized by the BIOS.
Identify your SSD and follow the instructions. Your Octane SSD is SATA3, not SATA2 SSD. Octane SSD is an EOL product. Did you purchase it second hand? It did come with a three year warranty.
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