The first thing you should do when your DVD goes dead is to not panic. Hitting it is not going to do much, and in fact, all you would be doing is creating a large dent on the front of your computer tower and spoiling whatever instrument you have used to kill it. You cannot kill a dead DVD, but you can bring it to life, and you need the magic powers of deduction and some computer skill. Now, when your DVD keels over and spurts its last breath, you have to know what happened in the first place. The possibility that it was a virus or a Trojan is quite high, and the means of it seems that your DVD has just caught the plague. Before you bring out your dead and try to buy a new DVD player, you need to be more Sherlock Holmes than Agatha Christie.

The first thing you should do is to check whether the status or power light on your DVD is still on. If the light is still green or even red, that means there is no problem with the power connection, and if the light is green, that means you can rule out the hardware problem. Of course if the light is completely dead, what you need to do then is to look under the cover of your computer and find out what the problem is. Look under the hood of the computer and check the power connections, if any are lose at ll.

And another thing you need to do as well, is to ensure that your DVD drive has not shorted out and burnt, which can be seen by a tell tale smell of burnt wiring. You need to look out for that as well. Ok, so if we have settled that this is not a problem that is hardware, then it has to be your drivers. DVD ROM drivers ensure that the computer can communicate with the DVD driver and if this has been corrupted by any reason, what you need to do is to actually do a clean install of the driver. Just do a simple uninstall and reinstall, and all should be well.

If you need to find an updated driver for yourself, then you can do this, by of course going to the manufacturer's website and downloading the latest driver for yourself. These are the two proven methods that you can employ for yourself to solve any and all driver issues that you have with your DVD ROM. As you can see, it really is an easy few minutes operation that anyone can do on their own and it does not take much to repair. In fact, all you need is the original manufactures' CD and of course access to the internet. And within a few minutes of deduction and elimination, you would be well on your way to fixing the problem of your broken down, or seemingly broken down DVD player. So good luck and happy fixing!