Exploding CD's

linktoinsanity · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:01

I always worry when I hear a buzzing sound come from an optical sound that it might explode. My fears are definately not put to rest by this thread.

Cool though. Don't think you'll be able to use that CD again.

I'd replace that drive as well.

Indie · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:02

this happened to me with my ollddd olllld Starcraft: Broodwar disk... just did it totally randomly, somehow bits of it got in the case though. PC wasnt too keen on that.

LizardKing · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:04

CD's/DVD's can spin upto 10k RPM, its quite surprising this doesn't happen more often!

edit - a 52x cdrom reachs 27k RPM!

Sindri · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:04

Greebo said:
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"

What the hell? Surely they won't go through with this? Will any serious PC gamer buy it if that's true? Looks like i'm sticking to cod4 then.

Sinque · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:10

Happened to me years and years ago, I had borrowed Red Alert 2 off one of my dads friends. I span the disk up and it went boom in the tray. I had to buy him another one

HarryPainful · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:38

This happened to me a few years ago, also had 1 CDRW that used to open before disk had stopped spinning and sometimes a disk flew out!!

Scythe · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:58

HarryPainful said:
This happened to me a few years ago, also had 1 CDRW that used to open before disk had stopped spinning and sometimes a disk flew out!!

Used a CDJ deck which did this! Not fun.

ron3003 · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:08

No-cd patch ***

Tefal · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:11

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

No co-op is still in but it's only in the separate spec ops mode, not the main storyline.

Edward78 · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:11

Windows comited suicide.

PiKe · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:15

It may of had a small crack in the disc already, or the disc was old or had been left in direct sunlight making it go quite brittle.

The Dread Pirate · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:17

Wait a moment If myth busters are wrong about this could they also be wrong about the airplane on the tread-HNNNNNGGGGG!

Werewolf · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:26

Some of us still have more than one of them...
I might actually try and mod one of ours to take better fans, the only reason I don't use them for more modern systems.

Back on topic, I don't think the Mythbusters test involved distressed CD's/brittle ones*, rather they use some from the same batch for all their tests.

*I've noticed some CDR's for example are much more brittle than others when i've had to destroy them.

Ghost-Reaper · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:28

This happened to my old yuri's revenge disk ages ago. Killed the drive at the same time. Considering how hot some of the disks get in the drives you can see why they explode sometimes.

Gunni Parker · 20 Oct 2009 at 16:56

What was on the CD?

arfur · 20 Oct 2009 at 17:02

the cd was only a few weeks old, it was a memtest boot cd, I keep loosing them or leaving them in customers PC's so I know it was that old and def not sun-dried

Memphis · 20 Oct 2009 at 17:04

The MythBusters test was that shrapnel would punch through the drive case, not that they wouldn't explode.

I get around · 20 Oct 2009 at 17:25

Had it happen but the disk in question i knew was cracked when it went in, shook all the bits out and the dvd drive still works to this day though

Strife212 · 20 Oct 2009 at 17:26

It's always some oldschool game like Diablo, Starcraft and Red Alert I hear this happening to xD