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Posted by $loth on Wed Apr 14th at 5:40pm 2004

So a few hours ago i took out the sims and noticed that it had a tiny crack on the inside of the disc about centimeter [see metric is more used than english ] so i installed it and it all went well, then i took it out and installed photo shop 7, after that i was a bit bored so i decided to play the sims, i put in the disc and shut the Drive door on my case and i heard somewhat of an explsion and the drive door burst open, i pressed the open button on my rewriter and it wouldnt open so i turned of my pc and quickly started it up again and opened the rewriter to see that the disc had-Vanished!- apart from a few shards, I shut down my pc and opened it up and took out the rewriter for inspection, with a little shake a load of shards of the Cd came pouring out of it.

Can anyone tell me WTF has happened? lol has this happened to any of you before?

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Posted by matt on Wed Apr 14th at 5:42pm 2004

This is why the Sims should be banned [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Wed Apr 14th at 5:43pm 2004

No not the Sims, im still going to get another copy [addsig]



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Posted by matt on Wed Apr 14th at 6:03pm 2004

? posted by $loth
No not the Sims, im still going to get another copy





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Posted by JFry on Wed Apr 14th at 6:26pm 2004

Well isn't it obvious? Seems to me you have tiny evil elves living inside your computer.



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed Apr 14th at 6:32pm 2004

I think the computer is dropping you a big hint that it doesn't want to waste its clock cycles on getting your sims to go to the bathroom.



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed Apr 14th at 6:32pm 2004

First double post. I feel so included.





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Posted by Vash on Wed Apr 14th at 7:40pm 2004

The Sims? More like "milk-a-damn-franchise-for-all-its-worth". The sims is the stupidest game I ever played. "Build a house them put a sim in; and watch them interact!"


Oh really?

Does going outside and lighting a bottle rocket in your pants stimulate the same feeling as you get when playing The Sims? I believe so.

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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Wed Apr 14th at 7:47pm 2004

Hypothesis:

You left the CD in a sunny location. the UV radiation degraded the plastic makeing it very brittle. a small crack formed due to some stress (i.e. dropping it). the centrifigal force exerted on the CD when it was spun up was enough to cause that small crack to propogate rapidly thoughout the material causing catastrophic structural failure.





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Posted by Vash on Wed Apr 14th at 7:48pm 2004

? posted by Tracer Bullet

Hypothesis:

You left the CD in a sunny location. the UV radiation degraded the plastic makeing it very brittle. a small crack formed due to some stress (i.e. dropping it). the centrifigal force exerted on the CD when it was spun up was enough to cause that small crack to propogate rapidly thoughout the material causing catastrophic structural failure.

Or the CD just couldnt take life anymore.

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Posted by omegaslayer on Wed Apr 14th at 8:57pm 2004

What speed was the drive? Because it sounded like it was trying to burn it at high speeds to me, and the crack made it explode. DVD burnerd do the same thing all the time, if there is the tinyist scrach on the disk, then it shatters because of the high speed. [addsig]



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Posted by fishy on Thu Apr 15th at 7:17am 2004

has the re-writer survived?

if so, you should get some better quality discs to back up all your pirated stuff (ps7, sims etc. )





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Posted by $loth on Thu Apr 15th at 7:53am 2004

Pirated stuff, me?, Never! lol the Sims wasn't pirated[although i did save it on my pc] it was an original copy , and yes my rewriter has survived! [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Apr 15th at 7:55am 2004

Omega slayer, i think you should read the post i made at the start, i was trying to play the sims not burn it!,

OMG my first double post!smiley

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Posted by Crono on Thu Apr 15th at 8:20am 2004

Can't a severly cracked disc only spin at about 24x before shattering? (I can't remember what the rpms are, but I think they're just 00 after the speed.)

If you have something like a 55x RW, I wouldn't be surprised if normal scratches caused the CD to 'explode'

I've seen some tests on this stuff ... it's gruesom (Shards of plastic loging in material more durable then muscle tissue and mangling up CD drive covers)

Also ... you didn't do something stupid like ... put the cd in the microwave first, did you?

But the sun would have the same effect, as TB said. This is why you're not suppose to leave them in the sun. [addsig]



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Posted by $loth on Thu Apr 15th at 9:35am 2004

Na it wasn't in the sun its been in my draw for the past 6 months

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Posted by Captain P on Thu Apr 15th at 4:51pm 2004

Kinda warm draw you have then...

Or, well, maybe the sun found a way into your draw...

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Posted by omegaslayer on Thu Apr 15th at 8:02pm 2004

? posted by $loth

Omega slayer, i think you should read the post i made at the start, i was trying to play the sims not burn it!,

OMG my first double post!smiley

I did read it, I said that it sounded like you were trying to burn a disk at high speeds, maybe you comp f'd-up and it started burning it instead, dont ask me how this could happen I was merely stating that cracked disks shatter at high speeds when a burn is attempted.

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Posted by Crono on Thu Apr 15th at 8:48pm 2004

No, being in a drawer is a pretty good way to make this happen, especially if you have a fast reader. The cd would get chipped scratched and so on to holy hell. [addsig]



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Posted by diablo on Fri Apr 16th at 4:31am 2004

My sisters sterio ate one of her cd's once and it's never been seen again, I was rapt about it too, sinse it was a D12 CD (hate that crap ).




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