In short, playing CD Audio requires the ANALOG OUTPUT of the DVD drive to be wired to the sound card. I can flatly state that I doubt this wiring exists and as such, the drive isn't broken in this regard.
As to playing DVD content, I would REBOOT and retest.
No play? Install the DVD player software again.
Bob
Ok, I have a CD-Writer in drive M: which works well, and I have a Samsung DVD in drive N: which works well (when I use it), the oher day I tried to use the DVD and it would not play, I didn't have much time to fool around with it, but, today I do, I tried a normal CD in there and it played but no sound, I tried that CD in my CD-Writer and it played properly. Is my DVD player broken? How can I test it.

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