BIOS Problems With CD\DVD Rom Drive. Not a Filter Problem

My Hp Laptop Was Messed up for a while with ramdom 2 sec restarts so i had a tech guy that i know and it was fixed. sadly after a few weeks my CD\DVD Rom drive quit working and was not (and still is) registered in Bios. i reset the BIOS Back to factory settings and had some luck. i worked fine but then when i woke up the next day i was gone again. i does do this often but im getting quite annoyed.. can someone help me with this issue.

Well, I now have the same symptoms as described in this discussion group. I'd put the CD in the superdrive for iTunes to burn, the computer accepts it, makes it's whirring noise (louder than a couple days ago), nothing comes on screen that says its able to read it, and around a minute or two it ejects the CD.
These larger 24inch iMacs are NOT the easiest to lug over to the Apple store, especially if taking mass transit! I have not found any solutions described here that works ...short of apple support.
I am a rather tidy and tech savvy person. No dirty CDs, no warped CDs, no inappropriate force to the drive, etc. Based on the number of similar postings, HAS APPLE ACKNOWLEDGED THIS AS A DRIVE DEFECT YET?

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