CD-rom problems

[crono22000]

I'm having trouble with my CD-rom drive. Just today or yesterday it stopped working. It seems to work fine mechanically, but my computer no longer recognizes it in the BIOS or when I try to use it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[freechus9]

Did you add any hardware or install any programs recently?

 

[EPB]

Had that same thing happen to me with a Creative 52x, just stopped working for some reason, wasn't hot or anything, it's wierd. Do what microbell said, if that doesn't work then i'm out of ideas.

 

[Zagadka]

well you gotta check the cables alright and please specify your system specs ...especially the motherboard.

some motherboards do have that probs....like suddenly not responding the cd rom ....

 

[crono22000]

I checked the cables, and they're fine. I have an MSI K7N420 PRO (Nforce chipset), AMD Athlon proccessor, a G4Ti4200 video card also made by MSI, a Western Digital 40 Gig HDD.

 

[Zagadka]

oh...nforce...guessed it right anyway..
one of my colleague ended up replacing the cdrom...because other cd roms worked fine and this one didn't.