My computer seems to be having some CD Rom readability issues (My sad attempt at technical jargon). When I insert any number of discs into the drive my computer recognizes that a cd has been inserted into the drive (a small cd icon appears next to my mouse arrow and the cd drive light turns on on my cpu). However, the computer, after making SEVERAL, "I'm TRYING like *censored* to read this cd" noises, stops trying and simply ignores the disk. The cd icon, meant to notify me that the autoread function is in operation, blinks a few times and then vanishes. My first assumption was that it was mearly an autoread issue, so I went into "my computer" and tried to start the disk manually, but it didn't EVEN aknowledge that there was a CD in the drive at all. So I'm stuck...my pc works wonderfully but I can't read any disks. Anyone have any ideas? I'd like to exhaust troubleshooting prior to heading out to get it fixed.I tried using the Autofix program suggested in another post but it didn't even recognize that my cd rom was reading anything. It kept telling me that there wasn't a problem.Did this problem occur recently?

Perhaps you need to clean your CD-ROM drive or the CD-ROMs you have attemped to use.are these burnt disks..more info..I just purchased a cleaning disk which instructed me to insert the disk and select track # 2 in order to begin the cleaning process - the cd drive wouldn't recognize the cleaning disk and therefore wouldn't play it so as to clean the lense.

The disks are either program disks or audio disks. Neither seem to read. Oddly enough, the one disk that the computer's been able to read was a burnt disk I put in it a few days ago. (It was a disk containing a word document on it. It read that just fine).

Thanks for the ongoing help here folks. Means a lot.Oddly enough - when I got to "my computer" and double click on the 3 1/2 floppy Drive (A:) icon the computer says, "please insert a disk into drive A:"...not a surprise. However, when I click on the D: (cd) drive and there's no disk in it the icon still opens up into an EMPTY folder. Don't know if that means anything to anyone.I suggest you test the CD-ROM player on another computer.