a cd just blew up in my pc cd drive ?

[happyherb]

just got back to the pc after running and hiding underneath a table (no not really ) a huge BOOM (mini gun shot WHACK ) sound just came out of my pc...i jumped up and moved away(not bad for a guy with a back and neck out of place ATM )

sat back down and thought "what the hell would have made that noise"...sniff sniff no fire ...moved a air freshener can from in front of the cd door and it was falling of so pulled it off...and seen bits lol of G'N'R Use Your Illusion (yellow album) falling out...

the other day i pulled out a cd and it was hot and thought "ooooo wont leave cd's in there for long again "

even when ppl put them in the microwave i hadnt seen them explode?

refurbished old IMB pc..

anyone have anything like this happen before?.HH. =]-~

 

[GrnMtnGrwr]

Interesting... how old is the PC? There was a time when CD drives were getting faster and faster they actually got to a point where they would make CDs explode basically because they were spinning so fast. On the fact of the drive, what does it say as the speed? Something like 52x or something.

 

[-StashBastard-]

I have never seen it and I repair/build pc's and have worked on hundreds.

But I have heard stories of this happening several times before.

1 story the pieces sprayed out and cut the guy up like some shrapnel or something.

Now think how close either your face or testicles were to that


Google might turn up some other stories.

 

[Ocean Grown]

I put a 52x CDROM in an older machine I had lying around a few years ago. Went to install linux on from a burnt ISO. As it's reading the CD to find the lead in track, I hear it spin up and CRACK!

I push the eject but it won't open the disc tray, I had to use the paper clip trick. Inside was shattered disc everywhere! When I pulled the drive out of the PC, a shard of disc was wedged between the drives metal housing, prying the 2 halves apart. It took a pliers to pull that piece of CD from the seam, it was in there that tight. If it takes a yanking with pliers to remove the wedged in fragment.....gulp!

I know it wasn't a the drives speed, it was the crappy media I was using.

 

[toastfighter2]

Some(if not all) cd's develop tiny cracks over time, which can weaken them dramatically. With that combined with the heat of the drive is most likely what caused the failure. If you are really concerned about the drive itself, replace it with a DVD burner(which can be had for less than $30 brand new)

 

[happyherb]

I put a 52x CDROM in an older machine I had lying around a few years ago. Went to install linux on from a burnt ISO. As it's reading the CD to find the lead in track, I hear it spin up and CRACK!

I push the eject but it won't open the disc tray, I had to use the paper clip trick. Inside was shattered disc everywhere! When I pulled the drive out of the PC, a shard of disc was wedged between the drives metal housing, prying the 2 halves apart. It took a pliers to pull that piece of CD from the seam, it was in there that tight. If it takes a yanking with pliers to remove the wedged in fragment.....gulp!

I know it wasn't a the drives speed, it was the crappy media I was using.

hi ppl...sounds the same as what i can see bits everywhere ect

i do have a 2nd hand dvd burner here to put in ...have just been slack...about time to do it soon i think

no idea of the speed of this ?... but its old...have only had it for nearly excatly one year...but i think its an old ex bank pc...and it the desk top sort and not the tower type..

yes maybe im lucky i had a can of air freshener was in front of it...cause that stopped it from opening and delivering a painful dose of cd to the face ...sure did wake me up a bit

also wasnt the gnr cd i thought...can see that else where...now wondering what cd died....hope its one i dont care for....im now just thinking it was vanhalen #1 ...poo...only just re found that cd...only listen to it once after finding it grrrr .HH. =]-~

 

[happyherb]

also the cd wasnt even playing at the time....

did a google search...nearly 10,00 hits on my wording on the subject...heres just the 1st one i looked at ...sounds similar...with the cd door hanging off and all...HH. =]-~

 

[smokincheeze]

I used to test returned optical drives from gateway all day and about 1 in every 20 had an exploded cd in it... so at least 10 a day.

 

[TBL420uk]

That CD must have been over 15 years old! No wonder it blew up!
Thats what happends when you flog a dead horse!

 

[qdavid]

"Jim, if you accept this mission....." bah, buh, bah, buh,... doodoo-doodoo ,doodoo-doodoo.

 

[SmokeyPufmaster]

I just wanted to say Hello, long time no see. I hope all is well.

 

[ZoeFresssh666]

OUCH! never happened to me, hope you get it fixed!