CD-Rom not working again!

Second time I have posted something like this.
I got my CD-Rom repaired recently and it was working fine until this morning.
I booted up and I tried playing a Game that requires the CD to work.
I was loading the game when it asked for the CD.
I checked to see if the CD was in the drive and sure enough it was.
I clicked the retry button on the little box that showed up and it hung for a second. then beeped at me with the same little window.
I pressed cancel and then proceeded to open the drive, take out the cd then try again to see if it would auto-load like it usually did.
Nothing.
So i tried another CD.
Nothing again.

I have checked for a boot sector virus because that was the problem last time.
I ran my norton anti-virus and it looks like it should have gotten it. It told me that I had a main boot sector discrepacy from the last time I ran the software.
I made a back up disk and proceeded.
But nothing changed.
There seems to be no warnings in the device manager.
Only thing that is wrong is that it doesnt run anything.

ANy have any ideas on how to fix this?

I use windows 98 BTW.

Can you play an ordinary music cd? If you have a headphone socket on the front of the cdrom, plug headphones in and try. A cdrom that is good (for the most part) will play a music CD without any help from the computer... if you have a play button on the front of the CD that is...

If not, start, programs, entertainment, cdplayer (dont use winamp or windows media player) and see if the cdplayer can see a disk.

Can't play Music CD's that way Either.

I noticed that my Boot up time also increased when this happened. only like 2 or 3 seconds but it may be relevant.

If you go into 'My Computer' is your Cd Rom still visible?

Does the bios see it? Is it possible the ide cable has gone bad or got loose? Is it plugged into the ata/raid port by mistake?

If the bios sees the drive on autodetect, but it wont play a cd - then your drive has died I am afraid.

Yes the CD-Rom is still visible. Will check on the cables and Bios now.

Cables and Bios are fine aswell.
Everything should be working normally but It still will not play cd's.

Keep throwing me ideas if you got em please.
I think Ill call em up and see if they can do anything.
The repar dudes i mean.

L8R