No CD/DVD drives work with my PC for more than a month - ideas?

[Triggaaar]

I have a now aging Asus A8N motherboard. My first, then 2nd DVD drives both stopped working after a time. I then tried a SCSI DVD drive instead, which also appeared to work at first, but this too stopped, and I gave up, since I can get by without one for most things. But I would like a DVD drive again. I don't fancy re-building my PC, I just don't have the time, so I thought perhaps I should just try a USB DVD drive.

Has anyone got an idea of what my drive problems are, or should I not worry about it, and just get a USB drive.

Thanks

PS - re the problem, I've tried the drives with new disks etc, they tend to open, fail to read the disk, and then not re-open again.

 

[solidamber]

If no one on here can help I would recommend joining the forum on here

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they have helped me on a lot of DVD drive and burning issues.

 

[Triggaaar]

Sorted with help from CD Freaks

It seems that my motherboard's SATA controller wasn't working, so installing nvidia nforce4 drivers did the trick.

 

[solidamber]

Great