OK IT guys/gals.....

First my CD burner eats a bullet, now I don’t have sound….

How do I check and see if these are hardware related problems or some other issue that I most likely can't or don't have the patience to fix??

The CD burner doesn’t recognize anything. It ejects, but no lights or whirling sound that it’s spinning the disk. I ran a find hardware thing off the control panel and it says everything is working OK. BS….it isn’t working. This sucker went down on my a couple months ago.

Now I don’t have any sound. Nothing.

Yes, I’ve tried re-booting, powering it off for ten minutes and staring it again, making sure my conections are right, shaking it vigorously, cussing at it and seriously thinking about throwing it out the window.

It’s a couple years old and has always done what I wanted it to do, which isn’t much really. I didn’t see a need to buy a new one, but maybe I should.

It’s an HP Pavilion 541C.