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Description: I have heard that this can happen if a CD is cracked when you put it in the drive, but I never really believed it. Then we were installing XP on a PC at work and suddenly heard a BANG come from it. At first we thought it was the PSU exploding, but the machine was still on. It took us ages to think to eject the CD-ROM, and when we did half the CD fell out! These are all the pieces we could extract without opening the drive. Of course we then attempted to put the CD back together :crazy:
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| tokyoracer Posts:1590 | December 17, 2007, 01:32:29 PM My BF2 game has a nice crack in the center and goes into the data part of it quite a bit and yet doesn't seem to be affected, AND it's along the inside! Weird huh? |
| Hodgkinson Posts:1080 | October 10, 2007, 01:13:30 PM It irritates me to see CD's lying around in heaps without any protection what so ever. I once lent an audio CD to a friend (In perfect condition) and it came back with a small scratch. Sure enough you can hear a click at the start of the best track on the disk *grrr*, but when you transfer it to a audio file with windows media player it misses out about half a second... Can't say I've ever had a CD explode yet (I dont think my PC's fast enough to keep the 52x CD drive running at full speed...) Hodgkinson. |
| weirdami Posts:3776 | June 18, 2007, 10:39:50 PM Quote For quite a few years now, the speed of CD drives has been defined as a function of the angular velocity of the disc at full speed I always thought that was the definition. I've never heard of that data transfer one. I never really cared about play speed anyway, just burn speed. Burners must be transfer AND speed. It's always seemed to work out that way anyway. |
| justthatgood Posts:579 | April 06, 2007, 12:28:19 PM Well the people I know usually have their disc lying on desks and dressers with crap all over them. Yes I'm sure most of their CDs would have cracks in them |
| Karlos Posts:16878 | April 06, 2007, 11:40:54 AM @justthatgood Normal audio CDs just wouldn't do this unless they were already half broken to begin with. It used to be the case that a CD drive's speed rating was based on its data transfer rate (I had an old sony 8x drive using that definition and it was faster at transferring than my last 48x :lol:). For quite a few years now, the speed of CD drives has been defined as a function of the angular velocity of the disc at full speed, as this proved far more ameniable to marketing types as they were able suddenly make large leaps in speed rating and look as if they were in step with other advances. What this means is that at full speed, your CD drive is physically rotating the discs at much higher speed than a typical audio CD. Naturally this puts much higher stresses on the disc. I've shattered no fewer than 4 CDs of dubious quality in the last 2 years. |
| justthatgood Posts:579 | April 06, 2007, 10:23:04 AM That's minor compared to some of the discs that I've had exploded on me in the past.I remember having to actually take the drive of someones computer I was working on apart because the disk they gave me shattered in to shards (the drive worked for another 2 months.) I guess it proves how dangerous those puppies really are. Just to think that so many people were jogging around with those. Imagine if your Mp3 player did that.. |
| derringer3 Posts:368 | April 05, 2007, 10:37:56 PM Now you can learn that windows xp always CRUSHING your system :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D Or maybe this is an enhanced code in sp2 that not only your software crush, but your hardware too. |
| kd7ota Posts:1433 | April 04, 2007, 10:18:55 PM The first time I have witnessed this was when my brother was playing Diablo 2 Expansion, and I did realize the cd was starting to crack from the center.... but it didnt occur that anything would happen. After he was playing for a bit, a loud BANG came. We thought maybe for some dumb reason the breaker really had it this time, but turns out the CD was in pieces, and hitting eject, half the cd fell out. I cleaned out the CD drive and then put it together and I still use it to this day on my computer lol. :-D |
| motorollin Posts:8669 | April 04, 2007, 08:39:45 PM Yes it still worked but when we installed it all the Windows were broken :-P -- moto |
| Tahoe Posts:971 | April 04, 2007, 06:56:03 PM Did it still work? Oh well, it's an old version anyway, Including SP2 is out looooong time  |