so i was under windows, playing my Civilisation 3 Collector Edition (fantastic game) when i had to call one of my friend. So i've saved my game, and returned to the windows desktop. After the call, i sit on my sofa watching the news, and then i heard a strange and loud sound comming form my pc, more particulary from my cd-rom driver. The cd suddently stoped to turn on itself ( you were able to hear it before that thing hapenned). I had no idea what the hell was going on, so i decided to open the driver to check if anything was normal, or at least correct. Then i saw the victim, lying, literally cuted in two. WTF!!!? how could it be? my cd-rom killed my Collector ED. Civ3! what the fuck hapenned? i don't know, bu the result is still here. Never trust your CD-rom driver, never.
since a CD drive that does that is a thing you would not like to have again and it is sad to hear that you lost your collectors edition CD :-/
That happened to me before a few years back. It was on a Mitsumi 24x CDROM drive. THe victim was Age Of empire2 CD. It broke in three pieces.
Holy fucking fuck....! I've had a PSX irremediably kill my Final Fantasy VII CD2 by scratching a huge circle into it. But break it in half...? Fuck, dude. Who installed this drive?
Well, as I doubt that your CD driver would have caused such a problem from within your system's OS, I'd wager that it was your CD drive that was the issue. I remember reading about this in a magazine a while back - due to the heat and vibrations generated when playing a CD, if the disc media was at all damaged (cracked, etc.) or just poorly made, there is a chance that it could shatter when in use often or for long periods of time. I remember seeing videos documenting this sort of thing where the force of the CD breaking would actually cause the CD-ROM drive's faceplate to pop off.
Yeah, it can get much worse even, with the front of the tray popping off *and* loads of nasty-looking fragments being shot out. I tell you, polycarbonate splinters are NASTY. Still, this sucks. The reason why I abstain from reading my Saturn games in my PCs drive. I guess what it all comes down to is lowest-bidder work, i.e. the "race to the bottom" when it comes down to components like these. Having a PC bussiness, I can order optical drives from a wholesale importer, and these things have come down in price tremendously (think 11e for a retail edition CD-ROM drive), they have only a few models in stock that don't vary in price too much, and quality suffers. The other day I was sifting through some old CD-ROM drives and I found a 2x caddy one which had a laser assembly made out of metal instead of plastic, now that's something I would pay extra for.
of course i know it's not the fault of my os, i was just saying windows because i was playing a game.
No no, I was saying: Driver - the software that allows your computer to communicate with a piece of hardware. Drive - A physical component of the computer that facilitates storage of data to removable or non-removable media. My point was that your drive is what was the cause of the problem, not your driver, regardless of the OS you're running.
oh, i always thought it was called ''a cd-rom driver'', i think it sounded wrong, but meh.. anyway, thx for the correction GSL.
No problem. If it really was the driver, I would have taken a look at your computer's serial number and seen if it was HAL-9000 or something. :smt043
CD-ROM drives don't have specific drivers anyway... Anyway - Civ 3? Age of Empires 2? Face it, CD-ROM drive manufacturers just have a thing against chronic strategy games. It's a conspiracy! That's hard core! Can it even read CD-Rs? I've got one of those Matsushita double speed drives that uses that prioprietary system that plugs into your Sound Blaster (i.e. not normal IDE, even the the paralell cable's the same!), but it's got one of those newfangled trays...
