PING: PC-fixer type people

[Suburban Rhythm]

I haven't been on the computer much at home lately. My wife will be on a little. Our daughter, 3, will mess around with the keyboard (or loves to type in word and watch the letters appear). I add her in because she may have accidently balled something up...

We noticed this morning, the PC is no longer recognizing the CD (D) or DVD (E) drives.

Under My Computer, it currently shows only A:, C: and My Documents.

Under System Info>Problem Devices I see this-

JLMS XJ-HD166S (device)
IDE\CDROMJLMS_XJ-HD166S__________DTS5____\5&2D5130A6&0&0.0.0 (device ID)

Failure using the VxD loader. (error)


LITE-ON LTR-48246S
IDE\CDROMLITE-ON_LTR-48246S________STS1____\5&2D5130A6&0&0.1.0
41

Anyone have any insight, before I panic and think my CD/DVD are pretty much gone.

Thanks

ETA-- from teh device manager, similar descriptions from troubleshooter-

Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

[MizzouRah]

Can you delete them in device manager and then scan for them again?

[FBPro]

I've had an issue where my cables to the drives had somehow come loose so I just checked and tightened my connections and it worked again. Can't hurt to check.

[sabotai]

Them both going at the same exact time would lead me to think that it's either an OS (read: Windows) issue or a problem with your motherboard or cables.

EDIT: A couple of years ago, my brother had a similar issue. I unplugged the cables going from the mobo to the drives (those thin, wide gray wires) on both ends and replugged them back in and it worked. If that doesn't, you try replacing them.

[MizzouRah]

If they are both connected to one IDE port, it probably came loose.