MSI DVD quit on me...

Ok, my computer locked up in a game and I was forced to shut it off (ctrl alt del was no use), but when I turned it back on it wouldn't detect the DVD drive. I have to push escape so it bypasses the detection of it (cause it just sits at post for like a minute if I dont). So now when the computer is on the drive just sits there with the light continuously on on the front of it and I've tried everything I could think of (which is basically unplugging the IDE and power cable and hooking it back up).... So, is it fried?

Ok, so I ALMOST purcahse a new DVD reader when I came across this: When I turned on the computer my CD-RW wasnt detected! Im thinkin "oh great now I cant even read a CD".... so i restart and its fine and I havent had a prob with it since... But because this happened, this leads me to believe that either the IDE hook up itself is SOMEHOW bad (im not THAT computer savvy but it could even be bios related) or the round cable is perhaps "pinched" in a spot or something... I have no idea. I might just buy a cheapy DVD reader anyway just to see if it works...

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For those people that have a issue with MSI DVD that won't work right

I have an MSI K9 SLI Platium 7250 w/ an AMD Athlon X2 4600+ 2.4 GHz. I have MSIDVD that originaly came with my old Motherboard MS-680E AMD Atlon XP 1700+ 1.4GHz. When I upgraded MSIDVD wouldn't work right and every time I Would insert a a DVD MSIDVD would give a wierd error. But here a hint how to bypass. As long as you have MSIDVD installed you should be able to play DVD's through Windows Media Player without any problems, thats what I was able to do. Or if you still want to use MSIDVD, you need to download a program from AMD, here are the detales, I also done this too
The Program is called "AMD Dual-Core Optimizer"
The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer can help improve some PC gaming video performance by compensating for those applications that bypass the Windows API for timing by directly using the RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) instruction. Applications that rely on RDTSC do not benefit from the logic in the operating system to properly account for the affect of power management mechanisms on the rate at which a processor core's
Time Stamp Counter (TSC) is incremented. The AMD Dual-Core Optimizer helps to correct the resulting video performance effects or other incorrect timing effects that these applications may experience on dual-core processor systems, by periodically adjusting the core time-stamp-counters, so that they are synchronized.
Heres the link http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html

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