My wife has the hand-me down computer, an AMD 233 mHz K-6, with an ASUS mb. Two Christmas' ago I bought her a PAnasonic CDRw CDROM and installed it. All was well. Until 3 months ago. All of a sudden the software would'nt access the CDRW. Win 98 system says that all is well. But when I try to access it w/ Win Explorer, My Computer or paly a CD game, I get the small grey widow that says "drive E is unaccessible - retry or cancel". I have attempted disconnecting the drive and reconnecting it w/ a reboot in between. I've tried removing the device with device manager, diconnected the device and rebooting and then reconnecting the device and hoping the Win 98 will see a new piece of hardware and "help" me reinstall the device. I have replaced the device w/ a CDROM that works and the cpu/mb does not recognize the new device. What's additionally frustrating is that I was able to "fix" the problem 3 months ago but I have forgotten what I did! All to no avail. Help! I don't want to buy a new mb, cpu, ram, etc. My wife's sloooow machine does everything tha she needs. Has anybody in THG ever come across this problem before and solved it?