I answered my own question. It was a faulty Windows installation. I 
reinstalled Windows and the drive works ok.

On 4/2/2012 5:25 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
> I am resurrecting an old no-name computer (1.2 GHz Duron CPU, 384 MB 
> RAM) running Windows XP Pro.  Everything seems to work ok, but the CD 
> drive. It won't read a CD. The drive shows up under Device Manager 
> with an error mark, but doesn't show up in My Computer. It is unable 
> to find an updated driver on the internet.
> I have tried three different CD Drives, 2- Liteon, 1 other brand. I 
> moved the drive to the primary IDE bus, no improvement. I have 
> uninstalled the drive and reinstalled it, same problem.
> Windows is up to date. Any ideas?
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