Originally Posted by
icbrkr
There's some good guides on You Tube that can walk you through this process.
I ended up replacing my DVD drive - it would still recognize the drive attached, but refused to read anything any longer (and it wasn't the magnet). $45 later and an envelope from Hong Kong.. voila! Working drive. Of course you can't just easily drop in and replace it since your drive is 'keyed' to your motherboard. I ordered a like-drive and swapped out the circuit board to the new one. Worked fine.