Fix the DVD Drive! Finally.

Since I installed Win 7 64 bit on my laptop in January, my DVD drive has worked only intermittently for reading and NEVER for writing. This method of finding the firmware and actually installing an update seems to work. Microsoft provides firmware from 2006. My computer model is from 2009. Makes no sense.

http://superuser.com/questions/161508/dvd-drive-failing-on-windows-7

And the link to get the firmware:

http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Optical%20Disk%20Drive%20Firmware&p=3&os=8