Can't see CD player

[Jenny]

Last night suddenly, the CD R/W doesn't show up in My Computer.
I took it out and put it in another machine where it works fine. I have
tried uninstalling the drivers, but as soon as I turn the computer back
on, they are rebuilt,... but the CD R/W still doesn't show up in My
Computer and even though it has power (open and ejects), it won't
play any cd (music or application).

What can I check???
Thanks

 

[Jenny]

Also, the drive does not show up in BIOS. Although I have no idea how
the data cable could have gone bad (doubt it seriously), I am going to
replace
it and change the jumper from select to master on second connector.
But I have no hope that will change things.

 

[Jenny]

I changed out the ribbon cable (known good one) and changed the jumper to
master (the cd drive is the only drive on that connector). It didn't work.

 

[Rory Woods]

If the drive isn't showing up in your BIOS (I presume that you mean
the onscreen POST), I would suggest going into your BIOS and doing an
auto-detect of the IDE drives.
Getting the drive to show up in BIOS would be the first step-- if you
can't see it there, the chance that it will work in Windows is minute.

Hope this helps,
Rory

 

[Jenny]

It is now fixed. I got a driver conflict checker and reg cleaner from Nero
and it fixed it. Thanks