I have a Lite-on slimtype sosw - 852s dvd drive in my acer travelmate 4000 notebook.

I have been having all kinds of problems with it lately as it wouldnt read music cd's or dvd's when I inserted them.

I read up on the probem a bit and figured that my drive was pooched, then yesterday, kinda by accident, I restarted my computer with a dvd in it and when the computer started back up, it recognized that there was a dvd in it and it played.

So now I have been playing with this machine non-stop trying to figure out what the heck is wrong, but I give up !

Hopefully someone out there can help me out before I go and buy a new drive.

When the computer is on and I insert a dvd or an audio cd, the computer doesnt even reconize it ! Even when I open "my computer" icon, it just says that the drive is empty. Like I said, when I restarted the computer with the disk in it, it recognized it. When i ejected the disk however, the computer says that the disc is still in it.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY MACHINE ?????