Exploding CD's

arfur · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:30

whilst repairing a PC today it suddenly went bang during boot up, on inspection the CD in the drive had exploded ! I thought they disproved this on myth busters !

robgmun · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:33

I think it was so old that the CD just got fundamentally fed up with it's life

The Dread Pirate · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:34

Mythbusters Know Nothing an out of balance CD combined with Hispeed CD/DVD drive can = Boom!

Django x2 · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:34

ooooosome

Mat · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:36

Wow, never seen that before.

zooankski · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:37

Did it all stay contained in the drive? i saw one once that exploded and there were shards of cd sticking out through the gap at the top of the loading tray.

Sindri · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:37

If i had just bought MW2 when it comes out and that happened i would probably cry lol.

randal · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:37

This... is an ex-CD.

/python

arfur · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:38

yes the drive bezel was slightly bulging out, a couple of small pieces came out, we thought the PSU had popped first or a cap gone on the board

Strife212 · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:39

Yeah this can definately happen, foolish myth busters.

PiKe · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:40

OMG! Globalwin 802, everyone who owns is ubercool, I should know :cool:

OzyOly · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:40

Happened when I worked in an Xbox 360 repair centre, sucked in the DVD and ejected the remains.

Deadbeat · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:40

Sindri said:
If i had just bought MW2 when it comes out and that happened i would probably cry lol.

You'll never be popular unless you cancel your preorder and sign the boycott. Apparently.

MowyTone · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:41

Sindri said:
If i had just bought MW2 when it comes out and that happened i would probably cry lol.

I would start crying now for what they have done to it....

Never known a CD to do that although its still pretty awesome

Flibster · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:41

Had that happen a few times. Particularly with slot loading drives.

Have now binned all my slot loaders.

Skully · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:48

I had this happen years ago while playing Porsche 2000.

Disk drive slowed down and the game crashed so I opened the drive as it was beginning to make funny noises.

There was a disk in lots of pieces all over the place! Urgh!

Sindri · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:54

GuRkHa//$PIMP$ said:
I would start crying now for what they have done to it....

Never known a CD to do that although its still pretty awesome

What have they done to MW2? I remember reading that they could shut off cod4 to force people to buy the latest one.
Also something about not allowing dedicated servers ??? I'm a bit in the dark, i haven't kept on top of it sorry.

Malt_Vinegar · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:58

Years ago, i worked at a school, when they first 52x cd drives we on some RM machines.

A few had explosions (none at our school) and as a result RM issued us with fitted metal plates to be fitted to the CD slots to stop shards of CD leaving the units!

Madness, I think we lobbed them and never fitted any!

Pish · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:00

reminds me of the iron filings thing you could do with a drive bay

Greebo · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:01

Sindri said:
What have they done to MW2? I remember reading that they could shut off cod4 to force people to buy the latest one.
Also something about not allowing dedicated servers ??? I'm a bit in the dark, i haven't kept on top of it sorry.

See the thread in the games section but in a nutshell, no dedicated servers which means the following:

Peer to peer multiplay only
No clans
No Mods
Huge amounts of lag
You have to buy additional maps from them at £10 for 3

Oh and they have also dropped co-operative play as well to "keep the cinematic performance at it's best"