Kablammo!

BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">actually, more of a snap, crackle, pop..</div> OK, I was reinstalling Neverwinter Nights, and it asked to insert the play disk, so I did....

I sat down and watched TV while it was installing, and it stopped about halfway through and kind of sat there for awhile. Well, its a 2 year old computer so I just thought it was thinking, then all of a sudden the front nof the CD rom drive pops out a little and a puff of smoke escapes. Well, Im like oh great (actually I was like @$%:@#@**&^@#%$^&@!@*!!!!! and colon semi-colon too!) must have fried itself, but it didn't smell like it was fried. I try to open the drive and of course it wouldn't open, so I stick a little paper clip in the emergency eject hole, and with alot of force, out it pops, and out falls parts of a shattered CD....

Needless to say, now I got to take it out, open it up, and fish out all the peices of broken CD, and hope it still runs right, if not then I will have to run everything off the CD burner.

Oh, and I figured out it wasn't smoke, it was CD dust from when it shattered...

man, I love my life.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    Man, that sucks, you need to search for the Shards of the CD (Sounds like a chessy game huh?) and you lost a game.
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  • ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
    I did that to my friend's computer trying to install Homworld.

    Joing the exploding CD drive club!
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  • BurrBurr Join Date: 2002-11-19 Member: 9358Members
    yeah, Its my brothers and I think he told me it had a small crack in it, but it worked fine on his computer, so Im like "why not?"

    Now I see why.... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Gaah! I'm having nightmares! What if this happens to me? *proceeds to wrap all his CDs in kevlar before he pops 'em in the drive*
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  • The_Real_QuasarThe_Real_Quasar Has the I.Q. of 12,000 P.E. Teachers Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9998Members
    That happened to me with a PCGamer disc. I inserted it, ran the autorun thing and it just exploded. We cleared out the drive of shards and it worked fine until one day it didn't, about a year later. That was about 2 weeks ago, we bought a DVD-RW drive instead so it's all good <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    I have a plextor burner that spins some cds VERY VERY fast. I always use Nero to turn down the speed, or just use my DVD reader to read discs.


    This REALLY sucks because even the great plextor 3 year warrenty doesn't cover cd shattering.
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  • AezayAezay Join Date: 2003-04-19 Member: 15660Members
    What cd drive was it, and what is the max speed, just so we know what we shouldn't buy.
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    I've heard of this happening on high speed drives when you leave CDs in there for a long time, they heat up, get brittle. Then, booooom.

    /me cherishes his Star Wars Galaxies Beta CDs <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    With high speed CD roms the geforces involved in spinnig the disk are INCREDIBLE!! Remember CD's are only thing bits of plastic so its not surprising they shatter on people all the time.
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  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited June 2003
    Actually, one of the batches of Neverwinternights CDs were dogy. There was something like a small scratch or line round the rim. Those CDs have been known to explode or shatter. Unlucky for you that you happend to have one of those CDs.

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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    save the fragments and send em off to atari, they will hook you up with a new set <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • WheeeeWheeee Join Date: 2003-02-18 Member: 13713Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin--Thansal+Jun 6 2003, 12:00 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Jun 6 2003, 12:00 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> save the fragments and send em off to atari, they will hook you up with a new set <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    you mean bioware?
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  • JefeJefe Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15734Members, Constellation
    ha, this happened to my cousin (who was 3 at the time, so it happened to my uncle I guess.) The shards actually shot out of the cd drive.
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  • FieariFieari Join Date: 2002-10-22 Member: 1566Members, Constellation
    Oops, you let out the <a href='http://www.everything2.com/index.pl' target='_blank'>magic smoke</a>...
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Fieari+Jun 6 2003, 06:46 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fieari @ Jun 6 2003, 06:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oops, you let out the <a href='http://www.everything2.com/index.pl' target='_blank'>magic smoke</a>... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->??
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    no, i meen atari
    <a href='http://www.us.infogrames.com/games/neverwinternights_pc/' target='_blank'>http://www.us.infogrames.com/games/neverwi...internights_pc/</a>

    Atari (aka infogrames) is the publisher/distributer. thus why you go to them for your free CD

    just as sierra is the publisher of HL and Valve is the designer/programers <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • RenegadeRenegade Old school Join Date: 2002-03-29 Member: 361Members
    Happened to my GF when she was trying to install Splinter Cell. Not her fault, the CD Drive was just in a bad mood that day. Only in her case it literally exploded. She told me it sounded like the Apocalypse.
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  • BeastBeast Armonkyi Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15731Members, Constellation
    Consider yourselves lucky that the cdrom drive's didn't shatter the disk and open the drive door at the same time....
    Shrapnel anyone?

    More amusing is the case of the cdrom drives that "forcively eject" cds like frisbees.
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