Asus Q501 making a loud clicking noise and is stuck on Aptio Setup Utility?
The clicking sound may be your hard drive failing? And that could be the entire problem. I think they come with solid state hard drives though, which don't have any mechanical parts so my guess at the clicking being the hard drive could be wrong. As for the Aptio Setup thing: Using your arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate the menus go to the "Boot” category at the top of the screen and set “Launch CSM” to Enabled. While you're in the Boot category make sure your "boot order" is set to CD/DVD first, then your Hard drive (your hard drive may be a bunch of numbers in the list, everything in the boot order list should be self explanatory other than the hard drive). It doesn't matter what order the rest of the stuff in the list is in just make sure it boots your CD or DVD drive first, and hard drive 2nd. Then go to the “Security” category and set “Secure Boot Control” to Disabled. Disable ALL security options, clear your security password if there is one. Press F10 or go to the "Exit" category, save and exit. The computer should reboot and you should be good to go. If it still doesn't boot (start up and launch windows) restart it again and hold the ESC key while it's starting up. This will bring up a menu that asks you to choose the boot device. Choose your hard drive. If none of this works that clicking noise may be the problem as I said. Without being there to see it myself I am not positive what it could be. My educated guess is that it's either the hard drive or cd/dvd rom making the noise. If it's the cd/dvd drive...Restart again and continually press F2, this will bring you back in to BIOS ("Aptio Setup"). Make your boot order launch the Hard Drive first and put your CD/DVD rom last. If it launches after you save and exit this time...the clicking is the cd/dvd rom. It needs replaced. If all of this fails, I apologize, you'll need to take it to a repair shop or best buy or have a technician look at it in person so they can investigate and evaluate the clicking noise and the Aptio problem. I can't be sure without having the computer in front of me. The clicking noise *could* just be a fan which is normal - not a problem you need to be worried about.
Asus Q551L notebook DVD drive reads DVD and CD but does not play DVD?
My Asus Q551L notebook DVD player plays my game CDs well with no issues. The problem is when I put a DVD in, it does not play at all. The drive reads it (verified under devices and drives) but the movies do not play. Normally at least for my games, a message in the upper right of my screen pops up and says, tap to continue, etc, but not for DVDs. Any ideas? I've read its the laser in the drive itself, but in this case its reading the DVD just fine, but not playing it.
Asus Notebook Q501 No DVD/CD Drive?
There is NO optical drive on the Asus Q501. Asus is able to keep the size (thickness) of this laptop down by excluding the optical drive as well as making the battery internal. I used to have a problem with NOT having an optical drive, as well as internal batteries, but laptops have become so much more energy efficient I no longer need to swap-out batteries in the middle of the day. I have an (old) external USB optical drive for those rare occasions where I actually NEED one, although I rarely use them any more with USB thumb drives and SD cards carrying 32+ GB these days for cheap. I bought this laptop several weeks ago and have absolutely fallen in love with it. If you absolutely require a DVD drive, you can pickup a USB external for ~$40-$60, and then plug it in just when you need it.