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DVD drive disappearing, randomly

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Krieger91

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Recently my pc was hanging out on startup, eventually getting past post but taking a LOT longer. I checked my computer and no optical drive was found, I unplugged the sata cable and plugged it back in. Then it works for a little bit. Maybe a day or two. I got tired of it and used device manager to reinstall the drivers for it. This worked for about a week, until today I noticed it was gone AGAIN! What the hell is happening, I have never experienced this before. Any ideas??

Thanks!
 
One thing I would suggest would be to check the Event Log (System) and check for any errors where it shows the device as timing out. I had a Plextor drive that started doing that once and the log showed back to back to back device timeout errors. I reflashed the firmware and it seemed to solve the problem for a short time but it soon came back and reflashing did nothing to resolve the issue. Ended up just having to replace the drive.
 
had the same problem with my pioneer blu ray dvd rw, drive
but it has not acting up in a while
 
Can you try a different optical drive, or connect your existing one to another port on the mobo?
 
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