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[chaobell]

Customer brings in Gateway with CD-ROM drive removed.

"What's wrong with this one?" Boss asks.

Customer shakes CD-ROM drive.

*RATTLERATTLERATTLERATTLE*

Apparently, a CD disintegrated in the drive. We opened it up and fished out the bits just for the hell of it--no way were we putting that drive back in the machine. It appears that not all of the CD is there.

I'm not sure I want to know how this happened.

Comments

[localguru.livejournal.com]

I had happen too. The woman said she put in the disc like normal, but it just shattered.

[agentz.livejournal.com]

I've never had it happen to me but I know a couple of people it has happened to.

My boss had a Windows 2000 CD disintegrate on him in a 48 speed drive in a Dell Optiplex a few months ago. Quite a noise it made too when it exploded!

The guy I share an office with had his copy of Medal Of Honour explode in his 52x drive in his home machine - and like chaobell said all the bits didn't appear to be there when he fished the fragments out of the drive and tried to piece them back together. Weird.

[psmylie.livejournal.com]

This happened on one of my PC's here at work... There must have been a crack in the CD that I didn't notice, and it shredded itself in the drive. Luckily I was able to get the CD out and my drive is OK (which is good, because it's my new CD burner :)

I like your comic, by the way. The Ring one cracked me up.

[thecrazyfinn.livejournal.com]

With CD-ROM drives maxing out near 10,000rpm, cheap, unbalanced CD-ROM's will disintegrate occasionally. It's why some makers refuse to make drives faster than 42x or 48x.

[liquidmercurial.livejournal.com]

I have seen this 2x before. One was with one of my customers. I asked him to put our cd in his drive. His response was, "Oh, I don't think it's coming out. It shattered in there. That's why I just downloaded the drivers."

The other time I was actually there. It was an audio cd that we were making copies of. On the 9th copy we heard this loud crash come from inside the computer. Needless to say...Eminem, was dead. *giggle*