I have had three CD ROMs stop working in the last two weeks! One is an old HP that I really don't care about, but the other two are fairly new CD drives, they're CDU 5211's.

Here is what's been happening: I put in a CD with an autorun file, and it gives me the CD icon by my mouse pointer like it recognizes the disc, but never reads it. When I go to my computer and try to explore the CD drive, it asks me to "please insert a disc" in my CD drive. There were no new software or any other changes made to these computers, to my knowledge, in the past few weeks.

I went to sony's and other websites and got the latest drivers for the 5211, and it still does the samething. I tried to rule out a hardware problem by I putting in a bootable CD and changing the BIOS to boot from CD... It read the CD and booted from the disc, yet when I went back into Windows (XP) it still wouldn't read any discs.

Is there still any hardware issues that could be causing this problem? Or is in purely a Windows driver problem?