What the hell just happened?

hackapelite · 07-13-2008, 02:47 PM

So, my dad opens the CD tray and -wham- pieces of a broken CD rain on the floor. The CD's literally exploded inside the drive. Now, the question is...
WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED? How can this happen? I've had this happen years before, a new DVD reader literally blew a CD into pieces (the drive was done for; we took it back for replacement). Just purely out of curiosity, though, what on earth can make something like this happen? Do they hide jackhammers or explosives inside them bloody drives or what? And is there a chance that the drive would still work, maybe after cleaning it out (the drive came with out now 2-n-half years old computer, don't even think about suggesting taking it back for refund

it was a no-brand CD-RW anyway).

StrangleHold · 07-13-2008, 03:38 PM

Could have been a number of things. CD could have had a bad place and just self destructed itself, got out of balance, drive could have spun up out of spec. and just slung the cd apart. But yes you can take the drive apart and clean it out, but as far as using it again thats up to you, if you think it was the drive went bad or the CD.

csmdew · 07-13-2008, 05:11 PM

$25 for a new drive, I would buy me a new one.

lovely? · 07-13-2008, 08:00 PM

if its just a cd drive then i would spend the money and upgrade to a dvd drive, they only cost about $25 as csmdew said.

i had that happen once too. the CD exploded and actually caused physical damage to parts inside the cd drive so i had to throw mine out. maybe you'll be luckier?

funkysnair · 07-13-2008, 08:05 PM

brittle plastic exposed to heat and geforce

ramodkk · 07-13-2008, 08:09 PM

Actually I was watching Myth Busters the other day, and if the drive was spinning higher than spec it could make a CD explode

funkysnair · 07-13-2008, 08:10 PM

Myth Busters-ah come on-! you must be the 1 of 10 viewers lol

long live the ghost busters

lovely? · 07-13-2008, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by funkysnair

brittle plastic exposed to heat and geforce

yeah, it was exposed to a video card lol.

g-force is what your looking for.

skidude · 07-13-2008, 09:37 PM

You know that episode of Mythbusters......

ramodkk · 07-13-2008, 09:49 PM

See, Skidude knows too

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StrangleHold Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: And you think your safe! Posts: 7,993	Could have been a number of things. CD could have had a bad place and just self destructed itself, got out of balance, drive could have spun up out of spec. and just slung the cd apart. But yes you can take the drive apart and clean it out, but as far as using it again thats up to you, if you think it was the drive went bad or the CD. __________________ NZXT Apollo Athlon 64 X2 5600 3.3ghz. Gigabyte GA MA770 DS3 G Skill DDR2 1066 944mhz. 4gb. PNY 8800GT/VD964 W/D RE2 Sata 3.0 500gb. There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

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lovely? Diamond Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: California Age: 16 Posts: 4,023	if its just a cd drive then i would spend the money and upgrade to a dvd drive, they only cost about $25 as csmdew said. i had that happen once too. the CD exploded and actually caused physical damage to parts inside the cd drive so i had to throw mine out. maybe you'll be luckier? __________________ E4500 @ 2.93GHZ COMING: E8400 ASUS P5K-DELUXE 2GB OCZ Reaper CL3 @ 800MHZ 3-4-4-15 eVGA 8800GT COMING: ATI 4850 OZC GameXStream 700W PSU 320GB WD Caviar SATA, 80GB WD Caviar IDE

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