dvd drive won't work

[acexg1]

I'm using a Compaq Presario laptop, equipped with a DVD drive. It was working fine for a while, but recently, for some reason, whenever i put in any cd, the drive begins spinning up, but i then recieve a blue screen error message, and if i push a key to continue, the screen goes black and i have to reboot. i have no idea whats causing this, and i've tried reinstalling the dvd drive drivers. if anybody has any suggestions, i'd appreciate it.

 

[Nih]

Sounds like the drive is dirty. not reading correctly

 

[acexg1]

ok, but should the drive being dirty give me a blue screen error message?

 

[Nih]

What's the message?

 

[blueghost75]

If the drive is dirty, then it might be able to read a small amount of a CD. But windows wants to read more of the CD before it is satisfied. When it can't, you will sometimes get a blue screen. It the drive is not dirty, then the drive is probably bad.