my cd drive exploded!

AHHH!!! my cd drive exploded! I was sitting here after restarting, and it booted up and did it's typical cursed spin-up (during which my computer is frozen), and then BAM, and I see a chunk of the cd land right in front of me...and then I look at the drive, and the its is hanging by one corner, and there are cd fragments everywhere. my computer actually moved about have a foot, and my router and dsl modem almost fell off of the case. best damn thing I ever saw. we got it for 25 dollars, so what can you expect...anyway...hah.

anyway here's a picture of it after we took it out and shook the cd out...and that cd is my legal backup copy of serious sam......backup copy, yeah....

http://www.sia-cam.com/120948132098472130984uwlkf02983r0823/12e0-82ufoskjdf23098u095/LAKJSOAIUJ2394872309578kuwdf/DSCN1575.jpg


anyways...I was amused :D

Holy crap! That is crazy....

The CD couldn't take it anymore, all the colleauges by the spindle made fun of him. :( RIP.

Yeah, I had a drive explode on me.

It was a some weird 52x one made by some no name company, so I put in a cheap-a$$ quality CD and made spin to it's max. BOOM! Same exact thing as yours.

Drivers aren't too expensive these days, just get a replacement.

lol, well, at least it wasn't some super-expensive drive.

Super-expensive drives don't blow up ;) They get worn-out way before that happens ... unless you like tweak an expensive 52x to read at 128x :rolleyes:

haha... 128x :P someday

And I must say... that is pretty awesome. Not that your drive blew up thats not cool, but your drive blew up :D That must have been great to see.

To bad it didnt send peices of the cd flying across the room and sticking into the wall link ninja stars

But thats sucks that you have to go and buy a new one :P

actually being the cheap parents they are, I'm still using it . but since i'm about to shell out 2 grand for a new computer I guess it's not a big deal. They drive doesn't really need to be replaced I don't think, just the cd in it flew apart. still works alright though..

there was a piece of photo paper (the thick kind) sitting on the table right in front of the computer, and the drive sent a piece of the cd straight through it. glad one of those things didn't hit me in the eye :D.

some cds just cant take that speed.

/me is tempted...very tempted...