My CD-ROM was working perfectly, i tried putting a DVD Writer in their and the busy signal comes up as well as the DVD opening but it won't read. The DVD is a Pioneer DVR-106D. I've tried going through device manager, tried letting wondows find the appropriate driver but still nothing. In MY Computer it doesn't even show the icon of the drive. I tried putting the CD-ROM drive back in but i have the same problem only now the CD-ROM doesn't even open. Any suggestions Thanks For The Help Cheers

Check the power plug to make sure one of the pins isn't pushed back in. Make sure the ribbon cable is not plugged in upside down. Do yourself a favor BACKUP! Sorry, I do not check for private messages

Did you check that the jumpers are set correctly? Go to CONTROL PANEL--SYSTEM and check both 'device manger' and 'performance'. In 'device manger' does any problem show with the IDE controllers? In 'performance', is the cddrom device showing as running in msdos compatibility mode?

Check the power plug to make sure one of the pins isn't pushed back in. Make sure the ribbon cable is not plugged in upside down.check take a quick trip into the BIOS to see if it needs to Auto-Detect your drive again.The BIOS is the underlying system that works out what's connected to your motherboard and if that doesn't realise that a drive exists, then Windows will probably not notice it either.To get into the BIOS, reboot your system and, when the power comes back on, press F2 or Delete repeatedly (once every second) until the blue BIOS screen appears. As soon as most systems start up, they will say "Press F2 to enter system setup" or "Press Delete to enter the BIOS" or something similar to let you know which key to use.Use your cursor keys to select Auto-Detect Hard Disks (or a similar name) and press Enter.When that finishes (after a few seconds), go to Save & Exit (or similar name) and boot up normally into Windows.(Note that, like the Windows registry, incorrect use of the BIOS may have adverse effects on your system).Try to install the driver of dvd/cdrom drive, if your are using winxp got manage>disk management.... To bring a disk that is Offline and is still named Disk # (not Missing) back online In Disk Management, right-click the disk and then click Reactivate Disk to bring the disk back online. If the disk status remains Offline, check the cables and disk controller, and make sure that the physical disk is healthy. Correct any problems and try to reactivate the disk again. If the disk reactivation succeeds, any volumes on the disk should automatically return to the Healthy status. thanks for sharing