If the cd drive tests ok for other uses, I would consider trying a different 
boot cd.
Terry
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Hi, I've bought the laptop recently, a few days ago, I've installed
Fedora Core 5, booting up from DVD, it booted ok, installed all ok.

Yesterday I've tryed to boot from CD and it simply doesn