I was reading from a Linux Red Hat system, and when the KDE "explorer" loaded... the disc spun really fast and shattered in the drive! I have enclosed a picture of the aftermath.
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I was reading from a Linux Red Hat system, and when the KDE "explorer" loaded... the disc spun really fast and shattered in the drive! I have enclosed a picture of the aftermath.
Who knows what happened, but I've heard of Age of Empires 2 exploding and it had 'extensive art' on the top of the CD which most likely had something to do with it shattering. I wonder if it would be possible for someone to write a virus that made your CD drive spin as fast as mechanically possible and causing hardware damage or destroying whatever CD is in the drive, scary stuff.
Speaking about nasty viruses....you could write one that over clocked the moniter settings like the refresh rate and stuff and it will literly catch the moniter on fire.....i did it to a 486..those machines are great to test stuff on.:)
I've heard of a virus that enables the needle/pin on the hardrive to access too quickly, leaving scratch marks all over it....
One time my dad was using his zip drive and it just burst into flames. Apparently the slidding protective cover got stuck and then the internals got fried. Good thing the drive was external. It was still pretty cool. Fwooooooosh! :firedevil
-KP
Wow, That had to suck.... How did you get it out of the drive?
The same happened to me. My worms cd (one of the best games ever made) broke into billions of tiny pieces (with a few not so tiny) inside in my drive. I spent ages trying to get all the little slivers of disk out of the drive but it proved to be a futile attempt. After wrecking two more cd's (they got seriously scratched by the remains) I threw in the towel and just bought a new drive.
LMAO.......
- Noia
:D :D :D
i had my diablo 2 disk break like that
Simple. Since it was MY disk (grumble), I had to go over and look at it just so I couldn't accuse him of lying. After he proved his point, we proceeded to pull the drive completely apart, and shook all the parts until they didn't rattle anymore. We have yet to see if the drive is still trashed.Quote:
Originally posted here by ac1dsp3ctrum
Wow, That had to suck.... How did you get it out of the drive?
That sucks, but on the plus side, the image of the broken disk looks really cool!
Hmmm, from a physicist's point of view, this is kinda fascinating. I wonder how much more susceptible the new blue laser disks are going to be to this?
The most problem with exploding cd's are not always any problem with the reader its often lousy written drivers who makes the cd to spin to fast (or not slows the drive in time). It can also be a combination with lousy disc quality (noname cd-r's for example).
Diablo2 was a good example since it do heavy reading all the time from the cd during gameplay, many of my friends had to buy new readers after playing diablo, not me though who still uses an old 34x drive :).
Well, the drive is trashed. It appears that either stflook put it back together wrong, or it is just trashed. Oh well, I got the drive replaced and all is well now.
If you think that is bad, imagine what it is like when your monitor blows up. A few years ago, I was sitting in front of a VDU, when the power line took a direct hit from a lightning strike.
Huge bang, followed by the VDU disintergrating - fortunately due to the vacuum it imploded, so I didn't get hit much by the shards of glass, or the fried remains of the VDU. Eek !!
Damn brutha! You're supposed to overclock your processor!
:D
You'd better trash that image or M$ is going to use it for a new windows ad campaign...
As jethro said, it looks wicked cool, though.
The reason this happens is because the disk is physically damaged, like it has a crack on it. So think about what would happen to something that has a flaw in it that is spinning as fast as CDs do.
In my experience, there's no point trying to fix your drive after this happens, just replace it.