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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Interscope on 21 January 2003, 20:40

Title: OMFG!
Post by: Interscope on 21 January 2003, 20:40: You have to hear what just happend........

I was opening up a game of Command And Conquer Renegade and I went to the kitchen to clean up some stuff because it takes some time to connect and stuff. So anyway, I hear a bang, after that very weird sound like something is maniacly spinning around. i think that my dads lcd screen fell over or something, I check it out and I hear that the sound comes from the cd player...

I open it up. And what do I see? MY COMMAND AND CONQUER RENEGADE CD CUT TO SHREDS AND DESTROYED IN 1000 PIECES!

AND I THREW AWAY MY PROOF THAT I BOUGHT IT!!!!!!! I'M GOING FUCKING CRAZY!

I'm gonna try downloading a Renegade ISO and see if that works...

This is fucking weird... I hate PCs!

I'M GETTING A FUCKING MAC!
Title: OMFG!
Post by: Pantso on 21 January 2003, 20:58: Holy shit!!! :eek: How the fuck did that happen?!
Title: OMFG!
Post by: Interscope on 21 January 2003, 21:00: I do not know...

It's probably PC quality.

But it's my dads comp not mine so I don't really mind that the cd(actually dvd) player is broke...

but my cd!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Kintaro on 21 January 2003, 21:00: is it a 52x cdrom drive, my friend has one and it keeps putting cracks in cd's if you load for two long, they shatter.

Make sure you open up the drive and clean it out.
Title: OMFG!
Post by: Interscope on 21 January 2003, 21:07: yeah i think it is.

I'm happy with my 32x player... 4 years old and it has yet to bust any cds.
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Post by: Pantso on 21 January 2003, 21:12: It could have something to do with the speed of the cd/dvd drive but it's nonetheless weird. It's the first time I hear such a case. My advice: save some money and get a Mac. (http://smile.gif)
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Post by: Kintaro on 21 January 2003, 21:19: my 40x does nicely, but then its not hard to make your cdrom 80x according to a friend of mine. He got his burner to work at some rediculous speeds.
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Post by: xyle_one on 21 January 2003, 21:24: thats funny. i have yet to blow a cd up like that. im almost looking forward to it ;)
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Post by: Calum on 21 January 2003, 22:29: that happened at my last work with a windows 98 install CD. the CD actually cracked with a loud bang into 3 bits and one bit embedded itself into a partition several feet away.

i did post here when it happened but it would have been about 8 months ago now.
Title: OMFG!
Post by: Interscope on 21 January 2003, 22:53: Windows 98, Command & Conquer Renegade??? Notice the huge difference???

If Windows 98 goes bust I wouldn't care.

If Command & Conquer Renegade goes bust the meaning of my live will be destroyed.
Title: OMFG!
Post by: Calum on 21 January 2003, 22:57: sorry i breathed.
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Post by: Interscope on 21 January 2003, 23:01: I accept the apology
Title: OMFG!
Post by: Zombie9920 on 21 January 2003, 23:07: quote:
Originally posted by Interscope:
You have to hear what just happend........

I was opening up a game of Command And Conquer Renegade and I went to the kitchen to clean up some stuff because it takes some time to connect and stuff. So anyway, I hear a bang, after that very weird sound like something is maniacly spinning around. i think that my dads lcd screen fell over or something, I check it out and I hear that the sound comes from the cd player...

I open it up. And what do I see? MY COMMAND AND CONQUER RENEGADE CD CUT TO SHREDS AND DESTROYED IN 1000 PIECES!

AND I THREW AWAY MY PROOF THAT I BOUGHT IT!!!!!!! I'M GOING FUCKING CRAZY!

I'm gonna try downloading a Renegade ISO and see if that works...

This is fucking weird... I hate PCs!

I'M GETTING A FUCKING MAC!

Don't you know that you shouldn't put CD's in drives over 40x speed? Speeds over 40x spin too fast for CD's too handle(maybe they should start using sturdier material for CD's?). No matter what the machine is, anything over 40x is just too fast. If you had a 42x, 48x, 52x, etc. drive in a Mac your CD's are as likely to explode as they are in a PC with the same speed drive.

[ January 21, 2003: Message edited by: Zombie9920 ]
Title: OMFG!
Post by: preacher on 22 January 2003, 00:00: Do you guys know how stupid this sounds. CD's exploding in fast drives. Ive been using a 52X drive for a long time and this has never happened. Hell I talked to some people and noone has ever heard of this.
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Post by: xyle_one on 22 January 2003, 00:05: ive heard of it, but i have never seen it. kinda makes me want to try it. maybe right now. its lunch time at work. i can blow up my cd drive
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Post by: Kintaro on 22 January 2003, 00:18: Get a good brand cdrom its the way they clench the cd in the drive, if its a sony it will be fine.
Title: OMFG!
Post by: TheQuirk on 22 January 2003, 02:34: FYI, Apple doesn't make its own floppies/cdrom readers/writes/DVD/DVD-R/a/o/ms.
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Post by: psyjax on 22 January 2003, 02:56: quote:
Originally posted by TheQuirk:
FYI, Apple doesn't make its own floppies/cdrom readers/writes/DVD/DVD-R/a/o/ms.

Sony, AIWA, and a couple of other vendors do. Good quality tho.
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Post by: TheQuirk on 22 January 2003, 02:59: Which means it's his fault for getting a shitty DVD reader.
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Post by: Pissed_Macman on 22 January 2003, 05:06: Maybe that PC company can sell its drives to the army as a new kind of grenade. The same thing happened to one of my CDs, of course there was a live bengle tiger in the computer room at the time...
Title: OMFG!
Post by: choasforages on 22 January 2003, 05:10: hehehe, and i just saw a 58x cdrom a few days ago. now what you do to a co-worker you hate with a fast cd drive, is label a cd so it looks like they would like it. and put a few cracks on the center. and yeah, i heard about it on slashdot a month or so ago
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Post by: choasforages on 22 January 2003, 05:14: it also makes me want to take one of my busted 40x drives and take it apart, then way over power the moter. maybe i could mount it at eye level. it would be a good security measure......
Title: OMFG!
Post by: TheQuirk on 23 January 2003, 03:08: quote:
Originally posted by chaosforages:
it also makes me want to take one of my busted 40x drives and take it apart, then way over power the moter. maybe i could mount it at eye level. it would be a good security measure......

I took one apart a few months ago. If you put a small toy on it and then start it up (I used a 12volt battery), it spins and then the toy flies.
Title: OMFG!
Post by: pkd_lives on 23 January 2003, 03:59: This is nothing special, in fact the other month there were postings here of the exact same thing.

It makes absolutly no difference what OS you use, fast CD drives do have this happen, there is no absolute speed limit. The exact cause has never been conclusively proven.

The most likely reason is manufacturing defects (I use the word loosly). It seems one cause is basically metal fatigue, or maybe in manufacturing this one disk cooled just a nanosecond to fast causing a very very well within spec. difference in surface tension. Whatever the reason you end up with a shear edge where the quality of the CD alters (remember this is happening at the atomic level, you'd be damn lucky to see this with inspection X-rays). Now you subject this CD to high rpm and the heat associated with it and you have the perfect conditons for that shear edge to split. It happens rarely but it does happen.
Title: OMFG!
Post by: PsychoticDreams on 25 January 2003, 04:20: this has never happened to my 48x cdrom on my hp. I am an avid gamer and i played ra2 and yuris revenge from june to around nov almost everyday. I am now into warcraft 3 and i play that alot no probs. I also have renegade got it a few days ago and its stupid. what kind of pc do u have.