HP Pavilion dv5000 CD/DVD-RW Issue

[bonse]

Hey this is for my bro really, he bought this HP Pav laptop about 4/5 months back and the DVD drive suddenly isnt working, it's not showing up in my computer, in the hardware management or anything, i know theres power because the lights on and you can hear/feel it working.

Any ideas whats wrong?

I've restored back to March'07 and still no luck!

 

[g-paw]

Is it in his BIOS? Very possible it's bad, if the machine is under warranty I'd send it back

 

[bonse]

Yeah it's not, i checked the Event manager and i found an error where it was disconnected! lol so yeah it's been pulled off inside oh well yeah it's under warrentee so it's no problem