Dvd player in laptop not working

[jencyjacob]

Dvd was working fine but now is not reading the DVDs,tried with different DVDs but not playing would like to know what the prob could be

 

[RealBeast]

Is it an older laptop, which could mean the drive is dead?

Can you hear it spin up, does it read CDs, and does it show up in the devices (either device manager or if you right click on computer in the start button?