kaboom

waxi · Post by **waxi** » 08 Nov 2006, 21:22

I had my PC in for repaires, did not want to boot up. few days later I received a call from Eugene at Matrix PMB, telling me, that his XP disc that he was using to try an re-install, exploded in my DVD rom. He said it made a hell of a bang and forced the tiny shattererd disc pieces through the front seems of the drive. The actual drive casing was slightly bulged out. He showed me the tiny pieces of the disc. Any way he was also at a loss to the cause, maybe someone out their knows the cause. Eugene managed to salvage the DVD rom and its working fine...so far.

FuNkY14 · Post by **FuNkY14** » 08 Nov 2006, 21:25

LOL! It happened to me as well a few months ago. I was playing COD and all of a sudden there was this huge bang! I almost fell of my chair. Don't know how/why it happened either though

Soap · Post by **Soap** » 08 Nov 2006, 21:25

Often, if CDs have slight cracks around their centre hole, the likelihood of it shattering is substantially increased. That disc sounds like some "disc loading" CD, that's been used for the past 3 years there...

Mikdog · Post by **Mikdog** » 08 Nov 2006, 23:45

Yep. Cracks in the CD, spinning and KABLOOEY!

Post by **Azgard** » 08 Nov 2006, 23:47

A friend of mines CD-ROM used to do this to quite a few CDs that had no cracks at all. It happens when you buy dodgy brands sometime.

WAJeff · Post by **WAJeff** » 08 Nov 2006, 23:48

There was a thing about CD's exploding inside your PC on Mythbusters a while back. Was pretty interesting!

Its happened to my Dad while he was trying to install XP, not so cool but it was a good story to laugh about in the end

FBiT · Post by **FBiT** » 09 Nov 2006, 03:15

It happened to me as well in January this year....

Took some surgery to get all the pieces out of my DVD rom...

...And I'm still using the same DVD rom in my PC - no probs

:eh: ...1st time I saw something like that!

Rid1 · Post by **Rid1** » 09 Nov 2006, 03:28

more on it at here and here and even also here - I just thawt its so cool to know more about this ! Since the first link i gave proves that it wasted my writer!!!

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 09 Nov 2006, 10:05

They had this on Mythbusters a while back.

Post by **Azgard** » 09 Nov 2006, 10:08

Lol, silv3rback said that like 3 posts ago.

PsyCLown · Post by **PsyCLown** » 09 Nov 2006, 11:09

I wanna know what brand drives you guys had?

Slasher · Post by **Slasher** » 09 Nov 2006, 11:13

Aopen CD Writer with an original cd that showed no visible cracks in my case...

Had to pry pieces of plastic from between a few metal pieces in the writer with a set of pliers... Have trouble with opening the drive every so often, but it still works, so I dont mind....

Belix · Post by **Belix** » 09 Nov 2006, 12:15

Original XP Disks seem to be rather prone to it...if heard of at least three occassion where the XP disk has shattered in the drive.

Also, I left a few old CDR disk in the office for a few days. Yesterday I noticed that the top one had cracked radially on one side, and all the media was curled back. Can only imagine the sun got to. Either heat or UV? Don't know...

Post by **KillerByte** » 09 Nov 2006, 12:20

thats why I made a copy of my original disc, it now sits safely in the cupboard while my copy goes with my PC, nothing worse than being at a lan and you need to reinstall cause of a virus.

Samaya · Post by **Samaya** » 09 Nov 2006, 12:39

Damn I have heard of it but that one picture in the link was quite impressive. Those discs must have been spinning at one hell of a speed.

Soap · Post by **Soap** » 09 Nov 2006, 14:44

Slasher wrote:Aopen CD Writer with an original cd that showed no visible cracks in my case...

Had to pry pieces of plastic from between a few metal pieces in the writer with a set of pliers... Have trouble with opening the drive every so often, but it still works, so I dont mind....

But that's Aopen. They are crappy anyway.

PsyCLown · Post by **PsyCLown** » 09 Nov 2006, 15:05

KillerByte wrote:thats why I made a copy of my original disc, it now sits safely in the cupboard while my copy goes with my PC, nothing worse than being at a lan and you need to reinstall cause of a virus.

Yipp.totally agree!

Ark · Post by **Ark** » 09 Nov 2006, 15:06

Wait till its like 2 in the morning and your playing Doom 3 by yourself in the dark and the cd shatters. You'll ***** your pants.