Wife's iBook G4, original combo drive, now getting the 70012 code

Hi, first time ever posting on Apple discussions.
Long story short, kids dropped my wife's iBook G4 the other week, I just replaced the entire monitor, no problems (thanks to instructions at iFixit!). Its a iBook G4, 12 inch, 1GHZ. Anyway, a few days afterwards I decided to see if the CD / DVD combo drive worked..... and it didnt. DVD player is not working and am getting the infamous 70012 error code. This is the original internal combo drive that came with the iBook and never have had an issue before now. She doesnt use it much but. Wondering if I didnt something wrong during the monitor swap or if it was damaged during the dropping incident. Any help / advise would be greatly appreciated!!!

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Can you see the drive in the System Profiler? (>About this Mac>More Info>Hardware. Check under both "ATA" and "Disc Burning".
If you don't see it at all, it may be that the cable was dislodged from the logic board when it was dropped or while it was apart. If this is the case, try reseating the cable.
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