proboscis - 10:08 pm on Aug 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

Thanks youfoundjake! I'm dumb about these things so I don't understand everything you are saying yet.

Here is what I did get.

Found the device manager and uninstalled the cd driver, then restarted but the cd rom is still not working.

Yes, both the wireless card (linksys wireless-g network adapter) and the cd drive have been on my computer and working for over two years.

I have recently installed Ultra Fractal 5, and a few months back I installed some software that came with a canon camera that I bought.

Found the event viewer, it had several errors that read "the device, \Device\CdRomO, has a bad block" the date on these is 8-25 they don't show up any more, today I see "The server did not register with DCOM within the required timeout." and "The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing..." and a VSS error.

Windows updates? In the event viewer I see many entries that say "Windows Update Agent" but the information description says "installation ready" I guess that means those were not installed.

I also see many things that were installed, like "NtServicePack" there are several of those...the ones that I clicked on say some Windows xp hot fix has been installed.

Does any of that mean anything?