Solve : CD drive broken, and a "!" in device manager?

1.	Solve : CD drive broken, and a "!" in device manager?
Answer» OKAY, and I have an update. Today the cd drive just will not open (light isn't on, wont open/shut) and my computer froze. When I rebooted it said "drive FOUR not found Parallel ATA, PATA 0 pri-ide MASTER) Should I still uninstall the PCI device (the cd drive dissapeared from device manager)and as of right now it will open, but my computer will freeze for 1 second then work again. it did this when the drive first began erroring. another update: it works fine after restart, i set defaults in the BIOS and the drive error messages stopped. So I guess the problem now is just the cd rom drive not working, and it's effecting my computer's performance. The drive appears in my computer at RANDOM TIMES. when i try a cd, the drive starts to read, the light flashes and it makes a noise. Then it makes my computer freeze for short intervals fixed by restarting.Sounds like time for a new drive. Luckily you can get a new DVD burnere for less than $40 delivered.

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