CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

I just bought starcraft battlechest the other day and im having a ball. I was just playing like 10 minutes ago and i hear a weird scratching noise. A little later i exit the game and then start it back up again but it wont start up!! I restart the computer and try it again with no luck. I finally take the dc out of the drive and i notice that the disc is very warm. I turn it over and to my suprise there these weird scratches on the outer rings of the disc!! But there not phisical scratched because then i feel it it is still smooth. I think the cd-rom stripped the data clean off the disc. My cd-rom ate my friggin disc!!! Has this ever happpened to and of you. And if it did tell me who was resposible and where they live!

[emcron]

I have had CDs that were very warm, but nothing like that.

[MiKe85]

Nothing like this, but i've gotten CDs where they were so hot, I couldn't hold it for over 5 seconds..

[Warthog]

Dude, that sucks http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif although it's kinda funny (sorry http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif).

Warthog

[club_med]

strange i have never heard of this happen before.

cm.

[Hellmund]

I'm with mike85, I've got a mate with a Kenwood 72X and most of the CD's after installing something are too hot to touch but never has a CDROM scratched any of my CD's. Give that drive a clean, maybe something stuck near the outer edge of the spindle.

[Hellmund]

[This message has been edited by Hellmund (edited 06-29-2001).]

[eagle1]

I remember that a friend of mine was playing a game using the cd (I think it was starcraft) he heard a loud crash (like crystal breaking) far away and his computer turned off>.1!!!!

Turned out that his starcraft cd.. exploded inside the drive. The guy who opened his cd player told him that it has to do something with the cd warming up and cooling off at the same time or something of that nature.!!

About the scratches..... if they can get blown, they can get scratched..!

[Dputiger]

I've seen a CD-ROM explode inside a CD-ROm drive as well--but never figured out why this happens. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[LittleKing]

I know it can be a hasle, but you can get the disked replaced by contacting Blizzard. Information should be in the manual for this.

LK

[DanU]

I posted this snipped from the aopen cdrom faq earlier...

As the price of optical storage media goes down, the quality of the discs becomes questionable. Sometimes the coating dye (in case of CD-R's) does not serve as a good reflection surface, leading to incompatibility between discs and drives. Sometimes, even worse, the mechanical strength of the plastic cannot tolerate high-speed rotation, especially when there are some cracks (perhaps cannot be spotted with naked eyes. After a certain period of operation at as high as ~10,000 rpm, the discs are prone to break into pieces. Simulation test result in our laboratory can prove that.


Smashing, eh? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[smartxtai]

yea my friend had this 10000x cdrom. he saw it online and decided to buy it to try it out. so he installed the cdrom and hahaha, its hilarious wut happened next. he started playing need for speed and the instance he put the cd in and started the game, the cdrom started up and shot out of his computer, hahahah it was so hilarious. his face was like wtf. hahaha

[spidey_joe80@hotmail.com]

The thing is that the scratches just look like scratches the "scratched part the disc is just as smooth as the rest of it. Also at the very edge of the disc "where the starcraft cover does not cover" you can actually see through parts of it. I am confident the cd-rom stripped the data off, AND I WANT IT BACK!!

Well actually I just called compusa today and they said just bring the whole thing back and the'll replace it no charge. Now that is great customer service. Everyone go buy your stuff at compusa http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif