My computer desktop has been an absolute mess. Some software required for one of my graduate classes was incompatible with my PC, and my laptop monitor was broken. I rearranged my computer so I could get at the back easily to move my monitor back and forth from the PC to the laptop. This made getting at the front of my PC a touch difficult, but it did the job.
So, now that school's over, I wanted to relax by dropping a DVD into the computer. It wouldn't work. The computer just said "Please insert disc."
Sigh
I tried several discs, did some research online, re-flashed the firmware on my DVD player, and finally gave up. My drive was broken.
So it was that we purchased a new DVD drive, which I subsequently plugged in to my PC and...
I noticed that the other drive was also a DVD drive.
As it turned out, my DVD drive wasn't working because it was my CD drive!
Ha ha. What a joke on myself.
Oh my, I've been in these shoes, as have others. I remember when your dad was sent on a business trip to repair some equipment at a military installation in California. When he got there, the problem was the secondary on/off switch. It wasn't defective, they just hadn't turned it on! :-)
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