OK, well, perhaps THAT's the problem.

[jon_chaisson]

I'm wondering if the cd/dvd drive (or the driver for it) is hosed, because after fixing EVERYTHING, it's still happening. And hey, I ran the Device manager for it? And *it* is now stuck in "Not Responding"!

This is really starting to PISS ME OFF now. This should NOT be happening four months after buying this PC.