CD / DVD ROM Issues

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Crunchynut

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ITMH C52Z01A SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-H653F ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]

Its a samsung drive.

I have windows vista.

These are my drives. Last night I installed a new power supply and graphics card and all was working well. The drive worked fine, read all cd's that I placed in the drive.

I got up this morning and tried to boot up a game, but to no avail. My cursor showed a small cd spinning, the drive made a few noises and that was that. The device manager states that everything is working. I tried uninstalling drivers and rebooting, I tried deleting some registry folder called Mountkeys I believe or something of the sort. I also searched for Upper/Lower things in the Registry but I couldn't even see it in the folder. The drive acts as though there is nothing in there when I double click it in My Computer.

Any ideas?
 
Yes, I tried another disc, same thing happens. I tried looking in the BIOS but it goes over my head, dunno if things are normal or not.
 
SO if its a hardware issue, can anybody give me a cause as to what may have happened... I don't want to buy a new Drive and it do the same thing. I haven't had the current drive very long (18 months perhaps) and it was working well the night before.

I recently installed a new graphics card and power supply, wires take up quite a bit of space and things are a fairly tight squeeze however no wires are touching vital componants etc. I left however a disc in the drive the night before and booted up the PC in the morning with it still inside, could this have damaged the drive?
 
Drives go bad at any time, You got lucky as some don't even last a year and a half. Borrow someones drive to make sure it works before buying a new one, but I can almost bet its a bad drive.
 
As long as it has the right type of connection, the older drive should be IDE. Does your drive have the wide flat ribbon connection(IDE)?
 
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