Well my DVD ROM drive hasn't been working for awhile. It would read CDs not DVDs, so after awhile of fooling with it I decided to buy a new drive off a friend(which i know works). The drive is exhibiting the same syptoms: I get no errors when loading a dvd, it says there nos disc in slot. My computer will think about it for awhile untill deciding that it can't read the disc. CDs work find(music or other wise) **Drive doens't work in linux(fedora 5) or windows(win xp). What i've tried: Uninstalling the drive Reinstalling the drive Changing the slot of the drive(i mean physically within the computer) Any help, It's really getting annoying. Thanks