dvd drive not working in computer

well i was told to post here and my post was then locked in the tech spot.. i have a windows xp pof computer... the cd drive is not working it loads up all lights blink but will not read any cd while booting and will not see any disk in it while in xp.... also other problem is when the computer loads to desktop in ether safe mod or reg windows haveing a problem with svchost.exe and when i take a better look at it i see 3 kernal32.dll all useing like 20% cpu each up to 40% cpu

 

Well, that would explain the OS, but what about the Computer itself?

The first piece of hardware that usually shoots craps is the CD/DVD drive.

In hardware management, take out all the CD drivers and reboot and let Windows reinstall the drivers. It it was just a driver problem, then it will start working.

There is one more fix, for a good drive that's just not working in Windows.
You can edit the registry and remove upper and lower filters.
Here's a little script that will do it for you, so you don't have to muck about in the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"LowerFilters"=-
"UpperFilters"=-

Open Notepad (NOT wordpad) and copy the above blue lines and paste them into a new Notepad document. Then save it with a name like "RemoveFilters.reg", to your desktop. Run the script once and then reboot and see if your CD drive will work.

If not, then install a new one.

Cheers mate!
Shadow :cool