bad cd rom bad

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:03:13 -0700, <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> spewed
forth these words of wisdom:

>hey out there,i am having a problem. I recently had my pc
>repaired i had the sasser virus. it works beautifully now
>except for one problem.my factory installed philips cd
>rom (r/rw) will not work at all,it doesn't read
>disks,burn disks anything.it worked fine before what do i
>do?

Does the drawer open? If so, then at least it is getting power. Chances are
the IDE cable was not reattached properly if the repairman physically opened the
case and was mucking around.

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