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CD exploded in my drive!!! WTF

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    CD exploded in my drive!!! WTF

    Something crazy and insane happened to me today and I thought I would share it with all you. I stuck a CD in my media center pc's DVD drive and I started to walk away when I heard a thump and the sound of shattered bits flying around. I tried to open the drive back up and it was stuck so I turned off the computer and shook the shit out of it. Finally the door opened up and about 10,000 little peaces of CD fell out of the drive. I had to shake the system for like 10 minutes to get all the little bits out of the drive before it would open and close again. Holy shit! Has anyone else ever had this happen? I'm considering ditching this cheap media before anymore go granda on me.
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    iono my uncle told me one if u have a crack on a cd and run it more than 32x it would do that
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    asn13oy Stepping Stones

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    One of the biggest reasons that a CD would explode in your drive is that it was spinning too fast.

    CD's will usually "explode" at revolutions in excess of 25,000 RPM. That's only if the CD is perfect. If you had a crack in the CD then it would not take such a high rate of RPM to make the CD shatter.
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    It was pretty nuts, there may have been a crack in the CD but WOW!
    Barnacules, Oct 9, 2005
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    yea like that episode of mythbusters.


    but it'd have to be a serious crack to pop at regular drive speeds, unless somehow yours went into overdrive
    Bulletproofswordsman, Oct 9, 2005
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    maybe the laser zapped the cd. hahaha. j/k
    zze130, Oct 9, 2005
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    i wanna see that mythbuster episode... anyone has a link?!? lol... sorry for going off topic on this post...
    hellapinoy, Oct 9, 2005
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    Cuztomrollaz98 MAD VLAD!

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    haha maybe it had nitrous hehehe
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    asn13oy Stepping Stones

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    It's b/c you put all those racing stickers on your tower!
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    Cuztomrollaz98 MAD VLAD!

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    yea dude that will damage ur internals lol
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    asn13oy Stepping Stones

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    He mis-shifted and hit V-TAK!
    asn13oy, Oct 9, 2005
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    thus causing the main structure of the CD to blow due to the g forces the V-TAK produced!
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    1337Rolla oh my

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    I've seen lots of cd explode. It was actually very common when the first 48X 52X cd-rom's came out due to the extreme rotation speed. But, it was only a few months before they developed better materials so that stopped happening. so, maybe you got a defective disk or something
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    hahahahahaha!!!!! roflmao...
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    It broke my DVD burner :( I put a DVD movie in today to watch it and it sounded like a wood chipper and I pulled the DVD out and it put grooves in the bottom of it :( NOW I GOTTA BUY ANOTHER ONE! ARG! I'm getting plexter this time, screw this generic shit.
    Barnacules, Oct 11, 2005
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    sorry about your problems dude. That is just bad luck.
    mburket, Oct 11, 2005
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