BRDVD not visible/working - Lenovo IdeaCentre B520

Hi,
I am facing a problem with my optical drive. Today i have noticed that it's not working. When i put a CD inside, nothing happens. I tried to restart the Computer but then it got just better, the optical drive was gone from "My Computer". So sometimes the Computer recognises the drive and somethimes don't. (i didn't notice it earlier because i am not using the drive very often) Somethimes it also do something when i put a CD in, but then the whole explorere crashes and i have to close "My Computer" via task manager. I thougt that i may be some software issue, but after failing to run a CD from BIOS i am quite sure that it is a hardware issue.
This is really very frustrating. I was waiting so long to buy this model, and i have paid a lot of money for it, but since i have bought it, i just have problems with it. First it was a problem with the pairing between the computer and the mouse and keyboard. Then there was i problem that the computer just crashes. After contacting lenovo they just say that i have to return the computer in the factory mode and bla bla bla... . I searched for this problem and found out that it is a driver issue from the nvidia (gt 555) graphic card. After installing a new driver everything worked.
If this keeps happening i am quite sure that i will never ever buy something from lenovo, because it just costs me nerves and time.
So what would you suggest me to do about my optical drive?
I will call lenovo (from Germany) tomorrow, and tell them that this "situation" with this computer is unacceptable.(i still have warranty on it)
Best Regards
Semir

Has anybody found a solution to this problem? I had exactly the same symptoms as others. I have never been able to play a dvd in the drive through to the end without the system hanging. I have reinstalled drivers, but this makes no difference. Removing the drive and reinserting it makes it visible again temporarily, as others have reported. But it soon disappears, both from Windows and from the system bios on startup.
I have returned the machine ot Lenovo under warranty, and it worked on its return for maybe one hour of use. I don't see any point in sending it back to them again, since they apparently don't know how to fix the problem.
I use an external dvd drive to install software and play dvds; so I'm putting up with a substandard machine in order to avoid worse pain and inconvenience. In 20 years of buying PCs, this one from Lenovo is the only one I have ever had to send back to the manufacturer, and a very good reason never to buy from Lenovo again.

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Dragnote,
maybe it was caused my terrible English, so I will try to explain relevant aspects once again:
1) I bought my Lenovo IdeaCentre C560 (part number: 57322363) on 22th of May this year from "stone" shop, not through internet. The Web site of this shop is www.mironet.cz, but there is not my PC there in actual supply, because the shop stopped to sell this model. But the parameters etc of this model is on Mironet's Web site here:
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but is is in Czech language.
2) My Windows are in Czech language, so I will translate it for you into English and therefore some informations/messages can be not fully exact. OK?
2) The LSC program was installed on my new PC with MS Windows 8.1 64-bit. I was only wanted to USE it! And why not. I got with PC only very slim User's Book, where was nothing much usable. And nothing about updating system and drivers, nothing about backuping etc. So I started to use SLC, because it was preinstalled there.
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3a) The link I provided, http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/replypage/board-id/ideaCentre/message-id/9220, lists 20 drivers and all of them were released in period between 16 Oct 2013 and 01 Dec 2013, so I have used abbreviation "end of last year", but you are right - mostly of them are from 16 Oct 2013.
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The names are NOT the same. For example: on Lenovo Web site is "Realtek Audio Driver V6695 for Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64-bit) - Desktop", released 17 Nov 2013, version: 6.0.1.6695. Then I found on my Device manager "Realtek High Definition Audio". So my question already is: "Is it the corresponding driver or not?". But let us say: it is.
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3b.2) How to update, when I already "decided", that my driver is not-to-updated and therefore I need it to update?
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This "optimistic" message I received for about 30 of my drivers. So there are three possible explanations how to explain it:
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2) I really have some not-to-update driver but because I cannot address correct WHICH driver is not to-up-date, I try wrong driver to update. Wrong, because it IS up-to-date.
3) I identify the correct not up-to-date driver but the choise "find driver on Internet" open finding of this procedure in non-Lenovo Web sites.
And maybe you are right when you write: "Sometimes, on a new system, Lenovo installs drivers that are "newer" than the drivers listed on their site. Don't worry, keep the newer drivers."
I apologize very much,but I am not able directly to use the information from you.
I never updated drivers on my old PC (I had it 12 years!), so I have no experiences what happens when I replace my NEW (up-to-date) driver with some OLD driver installed from Lenovo Web site. I am affraid that my keyboard, mouse, screen etc will stop its function.
When I bought this Lenovo machine, I to myself have told that I will keep my drivers up-to-date, but I do not how.
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