just resently my CD rom drive stoped buring ( LITE ON COMBO SOHC 5232K ) after i installed a new mother board. it still opens programs and games etc, when i put it in, but when i use ( NERO ) to burn a disk, it keeps asking me to insert an empy disk, even when there is one insertred???

please help, thank you.Have you tried updating the drivers for the drive? Which OPERATING system are you using?

Flameim using windows xp home ed, no i havnt upgraded my cd rom's drive. its fairly old so i dont think there is an upgrade for it...
but if there is, maybe sombody can reconmend a site where i can download these upgrades?
if i cant...
guess i have to buy a new cd rom
If it is over a year old and used often or even just "fairly old" as you descrive, just get a new one. The optics can go out even though the door continues to open and close.

A DVD burner is less than $40. A CDRW is even less.my cd rom is only about 2 years old ( yeah i know, 2 years is a long time and its prob way outdated... ) anyway, i downloaded an update for my cd rom. and guess what! it still doesnt work...

i have now ruled out that my cd rom is out of date because it has the newest driver on it/ not to sure about firmware?? ( firmware on cdrom?? )

so i guess the computer store didnt install the cd rom right or maybe the settings in nero are what is causing this, which i highy dobt.

i havnt had time to TEST other buring sofware to rule out it isnt NERO causing the problem. this is real frustrating. everytime there is somthing wrong with my computer and i go fix it, somthing new always, ALWAYS GOES wrong the next day.

thanks for reading my post and maybe i can fix this problem before i take it back to the store Assuming it used to work right, and now it doesn't, and you didn't do anything to it inside the case, and no software changes have occurred, I would say it is shot.Quote

everytime there is somthing wrong with my computer and i go fix it, somthing new always, ALWAYS goes wrong the next day.