Optical Drive not working properly. Help!

Hey guys this is my first post here at these forums, but I just built a new PC last night (my first time building) and everything seemed to go fine until my DVD drive stopped reading discs out of nowhere. I've got an LG DVD drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136149). I was able to install Windows Vista Home 64bit from the disc no problem, but not long after the OS was fully installed I tried to load up a disc to install a game and it is no longer reading any discs. The device is still in the device manager and it says that it is working properly, but it def is not. I've tried a few different discs and it just doesn't read any of them. It also does not seem to want to boot from disc anymore as I went into BIOS and set priority to boot from disc with the windows install and it just skips it and goes straight into Windows like normal.

Is my drive toast? I've been reading that if it doesn't boot from disc than you are most likely screwed. Seems weird to me though since it's brand new and worked for the install and then just stopped working.

My specs:
Q6600
EVGA 680i A1 Mobo
4gb Corsair Dominator Ram
EVGA 9800gt Hybrid Gpu
Barracuda 250gb HD
Antec EA650 650w PSU (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371015).

Thanks for any help/suggestions!

It could be that your drive is toast, but since it is new i'd try a couple of things first.

Unplug device/ manually delete driver / reinstall

Might even do a system restore to see if any updates corrupted the driver install --- didn't think that was a problem with 64 bit drivers but you never can tell for sure.

LOL are you insane there are no drivers for Optical drives. There are firmware updates for optical drives but there are no needed drivers for a DVD or CD optical drives. They simply are plug and pray devices.

Yup, looks like a dead drive since it's not even recognized anymore.

try a lite-on

cheap and they work too