New PC build w/ P6N Diamond - won't read DVD's?

The P6N Diamond, hard drive, memory, and OS are new.  DVD drive and power supply worked fine in old system (yesterday!).  Clean install of XP MCE on new hard drive.  All MSI drivers installed off CD-ROM.  Ran online updates till all hardware and OS were happy.
I just realized the DVD drive I did all the installs from reads CD's fine but won't read data or video DVD's.  I checked Device Manager and the DVD drive is listed correctly but I noticed the IDE controller is listed as Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller.  It has Microsoft drivers loaded.  Shouldn't the driver be from Nvidia?  It's a stretch but I'm wondering if this could be a driver issue?  I can put the old system back together to verify the optical drive works but it would be a real pain...

I was hoping someone with the same board would look in Device Manager and see what drivers show as installed.  I can find drivers but I believe the P6N has a 680i North bridge with an older South bridge chipset and I'm not sure Nvidia made reference drivers for this combo.  I noticed MSI lists system drivers by North bridge/South bridge combination.   
I'll swap drives between a couple of my pc's when I get off work and see if the problem follows the drive or stays with the pc, then I'll probably try reloading drivers.  It's either hardware, drivers, or OS and I really don't look forward hours of updates if I re-install XP.
edit: I got lucky, it was the drive. 

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