Dvd-rom Drive Blown My Cd ! Why ?

[Dark Ride]

Originally posted by Java Boy@21 January 2004 - 00:36
I saw an article somewhere where this had happened and what it turned out to be was the Disc had a tiny minute crack in it near the middle(so small, the naked eye couldnt see) and had disintergrated.

Thanx Java Boy.But the CD was almost new. Only a few days old.I have other CDs of the same brand and never had probs. with 'em.

I'm still sch0cked !!!

We need RPM limiters

[Neo 721]

A crack may not have been the cause, it could be that when the drive was performing the drive check (when its first inserted) that a fault caused the motor to switch to maxinum. The trouble is there isnt realy anything that explain this, appart from interal damage, anomaly caused from corrupt data.

[kaiweiler]

My toshibe is 16x\48x just like ur drive, plus its really quiet, and looks cool too. Got it for only $30 Canadian

Where?!?!

[fred devliegher]

Great. I finally started to trust my computer

Wouldn't a CD - desintegrating drive set off all kinds of alarms at Quality Control ?
Seems awfully dangerous to me. Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault

[Dark Ride]

Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault

Sure man ... I'll write an e-mail so Samsung: "Hey Sasmung, your DVD drive tried to kill me with a CD ... murderer.I want $1.000.000 + a new DVD drive"

[Marius24]

Originally posted by Dark Ride@21 January 2004 - 22:05

Perhaps you could sue the manufacturer for attempted assault

Sure man ... I'll write an e-mail so Samsung: "Hey Sasmung, your DVD drive tried to kill me with a CD ... murderer.I want $1.000.000 + a new DVD drive"

send them the letter. I'm sure you wont get $1.000.000, but you will proberly get soemthing back. How about sending it in the post with the broken CD or DVD drive.



or am i just getting carried away

[kaiweiler]

no Marius24, your not gettin carried away
most companies will give you something back, sometimes not a lot, but you usually get something

[muchspl2]

am I the only one to call bullshit ®

[tesco]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@21 January 2004 - 16:07

My toshibe is 16x\48x just like ur drive, plus its really quiet, and looks cool too. Got it for only $30 Canadian

Where?!?!

factorydirect, when they used to be down my street picked it up on the way ome from school one day, great deal. It was there cheapest one and i thought it would be pretty crappy but its great. BTW, it was on sale, normally 40. and its not refurbished either.

[Samurai]

This happened to me a couple of years back on my old PC.

I was playing online, and my friend was behind me watching when all of a sudden there was a crunch and it was spat out of the drive and fired across my living room. It disintegrated into the opposite wall and left a huge mark where plaster had come off.

I swear to god, if that had hit my friend behind me, he would of incurred serious injuries. I believe the drive was a Philips, although it could have been the disk itself, although it was a legit copy (Game).

Samurai