BlameThePixel!

Sorry, the real world doesn't work that way. You need a recipt to return something, that has the date of purchase on it. However, as long as you keep the disk, the terms of service are still in effect, and it is technically legal for you to get a CD image of the game as your one backup copy.


CD drives eventually break down. CDs eventually lose durability. It takes a long time for either one to hit the breaking point. You see that number on your CD drive (if you have a DVD drive, it should be 56x or 64x for CDs)? The CD never actually spins that fast, as it was found that they blow up shortly after it happens. That's why there's a limiter on the number of revolutions in any given time. The CD drive starts to break down, it bypasses the limiter, and the disk spins so fast that it quickly breaks apart. Alternatively, the disk could have been used so much that it's structural integrity has been compromised. Once the CD hits that point, even running at 4x speed will break it. Or, as a third option I can think of right now, your cooling system isn't keeping your drive's temperature down, and it just gets so hot that the disk starts to melt, and it (or the drive) will break.

it was on Myth Busters a while back. the guys tried to get a CD to spin as fast as a 56x CD rom spins them, and they just plain couldn't do it. they got it about 1/2 of the way, and the CD shattered under the pressure, even though the CD was brand new and had nothing wrong with it. the only reason CD drives work at all that fast is cause the protections and such that were mentioned in the above post.

a little fun fact, when a Cd explodes in a CD Drive, the shards are blown at speeds high enough to bury themselves up to an inch inside human flesh.

A long time ago when I first got this computer. The CD Drive would never open when I tried to eject it. The only way I could open it is sticking a paper clip where that little hole was. As I was doing this the CD Drive screeched and screamed so freakin loud. Could this make a CD Explode too?

A long time ago when I first got this computer. The CD Drive would never open when I tried to eject it. The only way I could open it is sticking a paper clip where that little hole was. As I was doing this the CD Drive screeched and screamed so freakin loud. Could this make a CD Explode too?
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By unstable forces and the CD going a Uber fast speeds, seems so...
I do tho noticed that when W;a is loading (into a game) the CD drive goes nuts with speed (you can hear it from afar) which also may be the reason, or the CD just couldn't handle the pressures
Fuck I don't know XD

Does that little hole happen to have a small... um... I don't know what to call it... perhaps dial would do? Does it happen to have a little dial next to it? If that's the case, you're intended to put headphones into that jack. If you put anything else in there, of course you're going to get alot of bad feedback. I don't know if it would cause the CD to explode, but it would most probably cause the CD drive itself to start behaving erratically.

I would imagine he's referring to the hole on almost all CD drives that ejects the CD manually. It's just a tad smaller than a headphone jack, say.. paper clip sized...

My headphone jack is under a flippable flap at the middle of my CPU. So Glenn, you are incorrect. But only if you were trying to be funny, you fail.

My headphone jack is under a flippable flap at the middle of my CPU. So Glenn, you are incorrect. But only if you were trying to be funny, you fail.
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wha? you have a flap, mine is unprotected, and i had never realized that little hole was to eject it manually

I'm gunna leave this one alone, it'd be about as easy as tripping a runner in the special olympics

i really dont pay attention to physical traits of my computer... i only pay atention to what it displays on the moniter

My CD drive always screeches so loud whenever it loads a disc. It's almost unbearable to listen too..

i barley ever here my cd drive. although that be because i have headphones on and cant hear much of anything else =)

Does the case happen to be firmly over the CD drive. Becuase that's what happened to my case. I bent it a little bit about a year ago, and so now there's this great little hole there that allows me to hear exactly what's going on inside my drive.

I think it is..The whole tower case seems to be there..