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| Thread ID: 39219 | 2003-10-30 11:27:00 | Take Cover! Its the exploding CD's!!!! | JamesStewart (874) | Press F1 |
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| 187915 | 2003-10-30 11:27:00 | No, you didn't read the subject wrong, EXPLODING cd's!!!! I put a Dick Smith cd in that has some drivers on it into my 48 X 12 X 52 Aopen CD-Writter drive today. Installed the drivers off it and then rebooted, no problem. Then I went to install the additional software off the cd and it starting spining and kept spinning faster and faster, then the whole case shook and then their was this HUGE crack from inside the computer. I thought it was the power supply or the CPU but they seemed to be fine. I then looked around my computer and notice small pieces of plastic lying around with yellow and blue labeling on them. I then opened my CD drive and my CD was in about 1000 pieces inside the drive and the drive wouldn't open properly becasue they were blocking the rails on the side. I have since read some articles on these "Exploding CD's" and found out that CD-ROM drive 52X or greater have a pretty high chance of causing this to happen. Some scientist who did some experiments say that if you are "dumb" enough to use a 64X drive, that is it HIGHLY recommended that you stand no less than 5 meters away from the drive and that no less that 3mm of steel is used to protect flying plastic from leaving the drive. I am wondering, do I (the legal side of things) have the right to ask Dick Smith to compensate from their cd exploding in my drive? I have never had any problems with any other CD's or CDR's or CDRW's. Or can I get a replacement from my supplier as the drive is still (if I can find the piece of paper) under warrenty? The drive is stuffed, it doesn't read any CD's now + if it did work, I don't really want one that has had a CD explode inside it at 22,000RPM.... Also, one OT thing, www.techzonez.com < - - - At the bottom, I see the guy who made the post has a picture of some sort that can get your I.P address, OS and so on. Any one know where I can get this? |
JamesStewart (874) | ||
| 187916 | 2003-10-30 11:32:00 | I would tkae some photos and then ring DSE and have a chat to a manager, they might replace it, they might just give you good discount on a new one. dosent hurt to ask. as for the photos? I think most of us would like to see the mess :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 187917 | 2003-10-30 11:33:00 | Oh, I didn't mention ... The drive is NOT a Dick Smith drive. | JamesStewart (874) | ||
| 187918 | 2003-10-30 11:37:00 | as for your OT question about IP address and OS and such like.... http://www.danasoft.com this dude has it all for you to link to. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 187919 | 2003-10-30 11:38:00 | thats ok DSE is what killed it. | robsonde (120) | ||
| 187920 | 2003-10-30 13:29:00 | Have a look here regarding the image in that dudes sig, proper nice indepth instructions.:D Click (forums.overclockers.co.nz). | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 187921 | 2003-10-30 18:14:00 | www.danasoft.com hope this goes right |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 187922 | 2003-10-30 18:15:00 | bummer, any one know how to doit on press f1?? | ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 187923 | 2003-10-30 18:39:00 | *mental note to self- get a dvd drive that reads cds at 40x in new PC* | Wilky (776) | ||
| 187924 | 2003-10-30 20:06:00 | >bummer, any one know how to doit on press f1?? When you post there's a link Formatting Options (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) Sorry though, no image posting allowed although you can post a link to and image by using the standard URL link method. |
Biggles (121) | ||
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