For your optical drive problem try this (for XP, but same for Vista):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us
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"PandaZ3" <PandaZ3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My Setup: I have Vista Home Premium 64, Abit Fata1ty AN8 motherboard, Opteron
> 185 a 939 Processor, I did have 4 X 512 Corsair PC3200XL, but removed two so
> it is 2 X 512 now. I am using a ATI X1950 XTX video card. I have 80 Gig and
> 320 Gig Seagate Sata drive the OS is on the large drive, a expired trial
> copy of XP64 on the small drive. I have a floppy. I have two Lite-On DVD
> Burners, both IDE.
>
> In the past week I have removed half of my Ram as stated and switched a
> Logitech MX518 optical mouse for a Logitech G5 Laser Mouse. My floppy Drive
> would not recognize a Disk so I put in a new drive. that's it hardware wise
>
> Software I added the latest 64 bit Logitech Setpoint software for the G5
> mouse, the 7.7 version of ATI Driver for Vista 64, and Office 2007
> Professional (I had and still have Office 2000 Premium on the machine.
>
> I think I have said all that is important as to my hardware and software.
>
> Except my problem(s)...
>
> In "My Computer" neither Optical drive shows up, they are in 'Device
> Manager' and they say there is a corrupted driver error 39, but when I try to
> update the driver it says I have the latest and greatest.
>
> Oh and device manager says the floppy is working fine to and while "My
> Computer does see it, it will not recognize that it has a disk.
>
> Any ideas are appreciated, Thank You