HOLY CRAP!

mrochester · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:00

Please excuse the thread title, but I've just had the shock of my life. Installing Sims 2 on Vista, and my DVD drive suddenly gives out a huge *CRACK* sound like a firecracker, and I jumped a mile....

Look what came out when I opened the drive...

Needless to say, part of the CD is stuck in the drive, and it won't close. Oh my god, never in a all my years have I ever heard of this happening.

melipone1 · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:02

LOL you drive has good taste

james.miller · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:02

i have

it does happen unfortunately, and has taken cd/dvd drives out with it aswell

Jokester · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:03

Wan't this fairly common of Sims 2 discs or am I thinking of another game?

Jokester

mrochester · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:06

I'm still in complete shock! Do you reckon it's worth opening the drive and removing the bits, or just get a new one?

warnea1984 · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:07

Jokester said:
Wan't this fairly common of Sims 2 discs or am I thinking of another game?

Jokester

Only when no ones looking and i am in the room...

*Walks away whistling :rolleyes:

*

Macabre · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:10

mrochester said:
I'm still in complete shock! Do you reckon it's worth opening the drive and removing the bits, or just get a new one?

lol, there will be bits all over the place in the drive, I'd get a new one. Looks like you have lost Sims 2 as well. Ea games crash everything, ea games spy everything, ea games advertise everything..... Yours is:

EA games break everything...

warnea1984 · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:13

Personnally I would be happy if this happened

Can you tell I don't like the sims

or EA for that matter.

Fars · 15 Nov 2006 at 00:58

Lol, a fitting end to the disks life I think.

Aye get a new drive, there will be a ton of fragments in the drive and if your drive has done it once it will probably do it again, not worth risking expensive install disks for.

mrochester · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:00

These are all the bits I managed to shake out of the drive... as you can see, large chunks are still in there! I think a DVD-RW might be on the Christmas list now...

james.miller · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:06

Fars said:
Aye get a new drive, there will be a ton of fragments in the drive and if your drive has done it once it will probably do it again, not worth risking expensive install disks for.

it's not normally the drive, its the discs. Its a problem when your spinning a cd at 10k rpm - slight imperfections can lead to cracks....cracks can lead to bangs...you get the idea.

Fars · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:06

Slipping off the central spindal and impacting the inside of the drive bay at several thousand rpm does interesting things to plastic huh

clv101 · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:19

mrochester said:
These are all the bits I managed to shake out of the drive... as you can see, large chunks are still in there!

Might not actually matter though, does the drive work fine even with the extra plastic?

Raikiri · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:41

You're lucky it wasn't a good game, maybe you'll be more selective in what you play in future

mrochester · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:44

Raikiri said:
You're lucky it wasn't a good game, maybe you'll be more selective in what you play in future

It is a good game! I have all the expansion packs too.

Might not actually matter though, does the drive work fine even with the extra plastic?

I'm certainly not going to try. I think a new drive will be on my Christmas list now!

iBear · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:52

james.miller said:
it's not normally the drive, its the discs. Its a problem when your spinning a cd at 10k rpm - slight imperfections can lead to cracks....cracks can lead to bangs... bangs can lead to the dark side

...i may have edited that slightly

THE CHOPPER · 15 Nov 2006 at 01:57

lmfao, EA do suck, blame them.

Lord Alibaski · 15 Nov 2006 at 02:01

Now you have created an even better game....a Jigsaw for yourself...

bru · 15 Nov 2006 at 03:59

ive had this happen to me though not with the sims 2

.....i just took the drive apart blasted it out with a air line, reassembled and it still works fine and has been doing so for several months

p4radox · 15 Nov 2006 at 07:41

This happened to me with me RA2 disk. I was going to RMA the CDRom drive, but I was just sent a new one straight away. I opened up the offending CDRom drive, extracted all the pieces of disk and it worked perfectly. Both drives are still in use today.