DVD-RW lost in space

My DVD-RW is not showing up in my computer,device manager or in ATA channel.
It appears in bios, and will work once in a while for a few hours and then disappear.
I have tried all the microsoft fixes to no avail
My machine is a Dv6718ca
Any ideas?

Yes and none of them are very happy thoughts. The AMD version of the dv6000 series is prone to motherboard chipset failure and one symptom is disappearing peripherals like wireless cards and optical and hard drives.

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