I was watching TV on my computer, and burning a dvd (like I always do) and my computer randomly restarted. Damn, I thought. But it happens, so I was only upset cuz I lost a blank dvd and they cost like a buck a peice. Anyway, so it booted back up and I got an error that there was no dvd drive detected on my machine. I looked at the drive, and no lights, and it wont work. It dosent open or anything. So I restarted, and half way into windows it restarted again. And again, and again. I think it did it 3 or 4 times halfway loading Windows. Now I'm in Windows, and I'm updating it to see whats the dilly. But my DVD drive still does not work. I dont think I got any power surges, and I have power strips. Let them be cheap ones, but power strips nonetheless. Everything else appears to be in working order, as I'm not getting any errors. Any ideas? This is like nothign I've seen before. I thought I was going to be stuck ina reboot, but I got lucky. But i did lose my optical drive. Depressing, to say the least.