dvd rom drive player?

how can i mend my dvd rom drive player it dosent work since i changed the mother board and change from windows 2000 to windows xp there was nothing wrong with it before just now it spins the disk around inside nothing wrong there about that just the icon dosent show in the my computer screen like it should do is it to do with my cables but when they were put in they were fine not split or nothing or lose what dvd cable should i be using dosent it matter can it be the same for the cd writers cable or not and my dvd player is a pioneer dvd rom drive its about 5 years old and the drive is clean so thats not it.

roger
November 2003