Aspire 5251 portable, - shows no DVD player

I have a laptop Aspire 5251. Question is that it shows drive DVD No.. You goto "My computer" and that the only thing it lists is the real hard disk.  If you put a DVD in to play - it does nothing (no AutoPlay and and shows once again no DVD in the 'my computer' zone)

(1) what I've tried: start pressed F2 and everythting set to factory default - did not do anything

2) updated the BIOS of V1.02 for the last V2.14

I think the DVD is a HL-Dt-ST-DVDRAM GT30N ATA - but unable to find the driver online or on the ACER site

So, how can I get this portable DVD player to work properly?  It is not my laptop, but a bit of a friends who knows very little portable aboput and this laptop cost him almost a month's salary (we are in Central America) any help would be great, thanks, Scott

Fixed it!   Thanks to this post: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-hardware/dvdcd-rom-drive-code-39/a79de01...

Went with option 2 and step by step!  I did not understand at the beginning when they were told to remove the upperfiltrs and the lowerfilters - a whole simply deletes these two on screen!  restarted and it worked!  Icon shown upward in the COMPUTER section and automatic reading works!  Candy!  Thank you

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