Big Bang Theory

[derk]

Just powered up a new build, decent quality parts and all settings at default.
After about 20 seconds just as I was about to start installing the operating system when there was a very loud bang.
After I let go of the ceiling I checked out inside the case and could see nothing wrong.
Of course the psu was the prime suspect so I decided to take it apart but on inspection found nothing.
So I popped in another power supply and everything powered up no problem.
Lucky you may say, I thought so as well until attempted to restart the new install of xp.
I had booted to the dvd and nothing, so I hit the eject button and found........

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/351/clipboard01ra.jpg

I have never seen anything like this before - have you.

 

[petriodet]

omg that is so rare

 

[Redmint]

That's almost impressive, can't say I've heard of it happening before.

 

[xBLiNG]

Wow, never seen that before, well at least not with a loud bang. What make was the drive and PSU?

 

[derk]

Wow, never seen that before, well at least not with a loud bang. What make was the drive and PSU?

Trust me, it was loud - Hyper psu and NEC drive.

P.s You need another hobby - a post count of 230 in a couple of weeks

 

[Redmint]

Think I'd have had a small heart attack too if it was my computer.

 

[wannabedamned]

Bang it on Ebay

**Rare & Unique Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition**

 

[derk]

Maybe someone was trying to tell me something ....

[god voice on] ...install windows 7, its time to change [god voice off]

....well it is now, I have no bleeding disc

 

[Redmint]

Bang it on Ebay

Bad pun of the day goes to...

 

[derk]

Bang it on Ebay

**Rare & Unique Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition**

Brilliant idea, I'll call it ......

Microsoft Xp - Supernova Edition

 

[V4nger]

That made me laugh! But seriously that is strange. Cant say thats ever happened to me or anyone i know.

 

[Redmint]

Microsoft Xp - Supernova Edition

Lol, otherwise try selling it as "untested" and post a picture of the disk, see if you get any funny questions.

 

[wannabedamned]

Brilliant idea, I'll call it ......

Microsoft Xp - Supernova Edition

Make sure to add "Slightly used"

 

[xBLiNG]

Bang it on Ebay

**Rare & Unique Microsoft Windows Xp Home Edition**

HAHA yea, and I saw the "Bang" it on there too

 

[stiv121]

It exploaded from the sheer power of your new setup xp just cant handle somthings...

 

[4T5]

You Killed XP.

 

[Dancer]

Is this a new microsoft expiry date feature to encourage upgrading to Win7?

 

[Strawberry]

Maybe your CPU was trying to access too much data so the DVD drive sped up.

 

[sim0n]

"Mythbusters on the Discovery Channel recently tackled the legend of exploding CDs. The legend goes that flawed CDs that are spun to 30,000+ r.p.m. in 50+X CD-ROM drives have a tendency to explode.

Well, turns out that the legend is somewhat true. The guys from Mythbusters were able to get some CDs to explode by spinning them really, really fast on a fake CD-ROM drive powered by a router (the wood-working kind).

(Why a router? Turns out that they couldn’t get a commercial CD-ROM drive to spin as fast as it was supposed to. A 52X drive is supposed to spin at 30K r.p.m., but they couldn’t get one to spin past 20K.)

They spun these CDs (and exploded many of them) in front of an unprotected gelatin mold of a human. The damage was exceptional. The exploding CDs spun outward like ninja stars, doing considerable damage to the dummy. The best results were from CDs that they “pre-damaged” to simulate wear-and-tear, including one they microwaved."


Source: the internet

 

[Th3D0n]

My mates drive did that years ago and when he got all the bits of cd and some bits of the drive that broke when the cd went bang out. The cd drive seemed to work much better lol