I have a friend who was playing warcraft III on his computer today, and the disc exploded in his cd rom drive. Actally it was the frozen throne cd, and it is original. I think the disc must have gotten pasteurized, Lol. The cd was out in the cold (+colder for being the frozen throne) and then he puts it in his drive and and I guess it got heat and Craack.! the thing cracked and even his mom who was downstairs or something heard it.

Well enough of the story, what do you think he should do? The worst thing is that he is on vacations, and now he cant play, Lol, like he didnt play it while he was in school.

rofl, thats really amuzing. I don't know if you could get any money off of warranty or something like that. I don't think they would cover something like that.

I guess your best bet is to just get a new war3 TFT disk and cd-rom drive... Did the cd-rom drive get busted? You didn't say but I would think it would if the cd exploded in it.

xJedix

LOL~ Omg, that has to suck. I would have gotten so scared if that happened to me.
Lets hope his computer survived ><

Yes, it is possible for a CD to burst inside a CD-ROM drive!

It happened to me once, and to two of my friends!
First, I placed a CD inside my CD-ROM drive, and what happened? The CD spinned up without any problems, and I started to copy some files from it... After 10 seconds, I left the computer to do the copying and went to the other side of my room. Then, the CD-ROM drive started to release some strange howling sounds (very creepy, I must admit), and a loud BANG scared the freakin' hell out of me! I rushed to my computer, pressed the "Eject" button on my CD-ROM drive and 1/3 of the CD was lying in the tray! WTF??? Where are the other pieces??? I grabbed my screwdriver (even though it was 0:30AM , and I had school in the morning) and opened up the damn thing... I pulled out the drive, removed it's cover, and shook it pretty hard! Small pieces of plastic came out from the inside of the drive and some tiny-shiny metal particles were present too (the writing layer of the CD).

The CD didn't work anymore, and I had to go out and buy a new one
Here's the weird thing about this:

Although the CD seemed like it was beyond repair, I tested it out one year after it's... hm... "slight problem" , and it worked!!! It sometimes works slower and is not very stable all the time, but it WORKS! Now, that's a mystery!

Remember, check your CDs before you insert them in your beloved CD/DVD ROM drive tray! As for your friend, well, tell him to make a sacrifice and cut down on WC a bit

I use an ISO so its no problem for me. I remeember I put some CD into my cdrom drive and then my cd broke and my cdrom got all ruined, most like because the CD had a crack on it too stupid xD

This brings a whole meaning to the concept of a game being "packed full of explosive gameplay in conjunction with mind-blowing graphics."

I've never had a problem with any of my CDs flying apart inside of my CD drive, but one time the drive sucked a CD up into the area behind the CD platform. The computer was a Gateway, so I sent in the CD drive to have it replaced and they did so, not to mention they sent the lost CD back in a baggie. Thankfully, scratched up as it may have been, it still worked. How could I live without SimAnt?

Yeah, his computer is Ok, because I saw him on messenger when he told me. He said that a 1/3 of his warcraft cd survived, but I guess that wont be enough to keep on gaming. Lol. I remember something similar happened to me about 6 or 7 years ago. I had a compaq desktop computer (very old, 333mhz cyrix processor) and I dont remember If I was playing a game or something and the cd tray suddenly opened and spit the cd flying in the air. I remember a friend who was next to me almost got hit, and I remember him saying, man this thing wants to kill you.

Strange that he would say that to you when it was he who was nearly hit.

By the way, here is an article concerning the more scientific elements of exploding one's CDs due to high speeds. This is probably the reason that CD drives aren't made to go above a certain speed (usually around 52X; I haven't heard of a CD drive that can go faster thus far).

How ironic: The Frozen Throne CD exploding in the CD drive. Do you guys have like a warranty or something. It doesn't matter (much) how hot or cold the CD was. You must check for any cracks on the cd. The geek in me wants to tell you that doe to heating up of the surface of the plastic layer linear expansion takes place and the crack expands and enlarges until finally the CD is in pieces. Be careful next time.