my freind was playing need for speed or something, and i was in the other room. Then i heard a huge noice like someone dropped a glass or soemthing. And i went to see what happened, and there were bits of the cd EVERYWHERE!! The cd exploded and the drive is basically dead. heh. anyway, why did it do that?! did it get to hot or something?

Cooooooooooooooool
nah, ive seen it happen before, but not in person.
basically its more common nowerdays with fast reading cd-rom drives... fast reading means fast spining, sometimes up to 9000rpm!
such spin speeds put alot of stress on the cd's, and occasionally if the cd has a deep scratch or crack or flaw the force of it spinning can cauze it to basically explode.

hopefully it hasnt damaged the drive, allthought that is quite possible.
you will need to clean it thouroughly, removing all pieces of the cd.

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that's how my old 52x died.

What if you had admin rights to life?

I think his computer decided he had spent too much time playing that game and it was time to move on.

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Stupidity should be painful.

Just because you whimps are too scared to overclock your cdrom drives doesn't mean everyone else is that weak.

Christ.

Lakedude was burning cdr's with his 52x reader a few weeks back....

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Holy snapping duck poop Batman. I've never heard of this before. I would love to have seen this thing explode :-)

Cheers,
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if you use cd cracks this all would have been avoided
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that is the problem with cheap media these days, not so great quality... interesting pc seciurity system though, they dont type in the right password & your PC fires pieces of the CD at them
heh heh heh...

no-one shouts louder than someone who is being ignored, or in the case of techies, to be heard over the noise of their PC's ;-)

yeah. Kinda annoying. They use cheap media, you get lumped with a dead drive and chunks of a game.

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