CD-ROM drive? Which CD-ROM drive?

[pne]

For some reason, my computer has decided not to recognise its two CD-ROM drives when it started up.

When this started happening, I thought I'd try detaching the cable from the motherboard and plugging it in again; that worked, kind of. At the next boot, the system recognised both drives again. But afterwards, they were gone.

This morning, for some reason, it decided to recognise them again. Bizarre.

I wonder whether the computer is simply getting old (perhaps some capacitors going wonky?). It also decides to freeze occasionally. Perhaps that's its way of saying "I'm just a piece of consumer equipment and am not designed to last more than two years; please spend lots of money on a replacement". *sigh*

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[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Sounds like my dad's old computer - it stopped recognising one of it's hard drives (which was only used to store backups of stuff). I left it alone, as the computer isn't in a place that makes it easily to access. Some 6 monhts later it randomly decided to see the harddrive again and continued to do so for another few weeks before "losing" it again. Most strange.