pekoe,
> I forgot to mention that in Device Manager
I would not assume that the drive is damaged as someone suggested.
That IS a possibility, but I would first rechenck the cable
connections, the drive power and the ribbon cable connection. These
days optical drives are fairly inexpensive. but I would not buy a new
one until I verified that the drive is really dead. First does the
drive try to spin up after you power on the computer. If it does not
and the cables all seem to be connected correctly and you have tried
the drive on the other connector of the ribbon cable, you could try it
on another computer, Or try a different reibbon cable.
If the drive does spin up then you should check the bios entry for the
drive. The bios should respond if the drive is getting power and the
ribbon cable is properly connected. Of course bios response does not
mean that the drive is working, only that the built in ID rom is
sending information to the bios.
Another thing to try is another optical drive, even if it is only a CD
drive. This should verify that the hardware connection is OK.
Jim
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