Sometimes I find that my DVD drive doesn't want to recognize a disk that's inserted.For example:Last night I get home form work at 12:30am. I do a few things around the house, then played Diablo 2 till about 3:30am with no issues. While I was at work, my computer was being used by a friend from 3pm till 11pm. No issues there either.This morning I boot up the computer, check email, get peer pressured into buying a Wii, come home to play Diablo 2 again, but I get a message to insert the disk yet its been in the drive for almost a week..?There are not issues in device manager, I double checked for windows updates and there are none since reloading the computer 2 weeks ago, I've searched for firmware updates with no luck, search for an hour on the web for others with the same issues and still no luck.It doesn't mater what type of disk I insert; Windows XP, music CD, DVD movie, game cd/dvd's... the drive reads them as if its about to pull up the autoplay menu.. but nothing happens.Under My Computer the drive looks empty as I can't access it.If I reboot several times, hop on one foot, do the truffle shuffle and give the secret handshake, it starts working again... till it decides to do this again.even as a computer tech back when XP first came out, till just before the age of Duo Core processors I've had this problem on and off maybe once a year on totally different computers. The only common factor being XP Home edition.Once a year I can live with, but 5 times a week as often as 3 times a day is a little much...I can't see this being hardware related as I've swapping the drive, reloading windows, ect... Also I should note that I spent two years as a computer tech from Windows ME till XP's Service Pack2 and I never ran into any customer computers with this issue, yet I would have it pop up once every year or so.. nothing a simple reboot couldn't fix.But since Service pack 3, I'm getting it sometimes daily...So is this a Windows XP or Service Pack 3 issue??Any ideas? =|

Hello, It seems the current issue is a Windows XP issue, please understand that we mainly discuss Exchange issues in this forum. you can refer the following link for help. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups.mspx I hope your issue will be fixed soon. Thanks, Elvis

Sorry Elvis I'll try there. thx