Brent,
That was my thought. As cheap as computers are now, I won't waste a lot of time and money trying to fix an older one. And especially one that is running ME. I finally talked some friends of mine in Chico to get rid of the ME and put in XP and they are really happy now.
But by Mike's not showing up as a drive in My Computer, and yet according to what he said it is spinning the CD, that made me wonder. When I had the ME computer, my DVD drive gave me an error message that there was no such drive. And this after I had used it for 3 months. I got to looking in the System set up and the darn thing had marked the DVD drive which in mine was "D" Drive as unassigned. I just set it back to an assigned drive and had no more problems with it. Windows ME did some very strange things. He had opened it up and changed the ribbon cable from the "D" drive I think he said to the "E"drive, which is his CD and it made no difference. If it was just dust, that would be an easy fix, but that wouldn't keep it from showing the drive when he went to My Computer or Explorer.
Ron
