Dell Laptop

[sills18]

I have a Dell Inspiron 9300 and I was wondering why when sometimes I start it up and go to My Computer, It does not even see that i have a cd drive?

 

[SNGX1275]

Could have a bad connection. Or could be the board is going bad.

 

[sills18]

It shouldn't be the mother board..I just got it a year ago

 

[Liquidlen]

That cd drive is probably a DVD writer and it may need a firmware update.

 

[SNGX1275]

In a perfect world a motherboard would never go bad because it doesn't have moving parts. But in reality they do die.

I don't think there is much advice to give here. You can try running an entire OS off of it and see if it works all the time. http://www.knoppix.com/