Please provide me with the following information in a private message so I can fix this. I can only send out a technician to replace the drive. I cannot replace the game CD. You will have to return the game CD and box to where you purchased it -
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wow, the cd must have been spinning pretty fast for that to happen. Call tech support and see if they can replace it. It would be a long shot but I would try to make them repllace the game CD too.
You can usually get a replacement from the game company if you call their support lineand tell them what happened. Try and make it sound more like defective media which caused the drive to unbalance and wobble or something, but they are usually pretty good about stuff like that.
i've taken all the pieces I possibly could out of the drive by tilting the whole machine and now it opens and closes normally..it seems OKAY but i can still see miniature pieces inside, should i still call dell support or get a normal computer technician to empty it out for me?
It took over 30,000 rpm to explode a cd on mythbusters and that was using a wood router. I would be looking at the cd for causing this. I don't think any cd players even come close to this.
wow, i must be really unlucky then to have got these results. the game was Lock On it's a fighter plane simulator..maybe it was built badly i guess. anyway i'm on phone with italy dell support let's see what they can do.
Just today a cd exploded inside my dell at work. It was a desk top computer. If the myth busters found this phenomenon to be a myth, they were wrong. Did your cd get mailed to you from somewhere?
While MythBusters is entertaining, I wonder about the scientific value of some of their experiments. However, I'd still suspect a faulty CD if one comes apart in a drive.
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Please provide me with the following information in a private message so I can fix this. I can only send out a technician to replace the drive. I cannot replace the game CD. You will have to return the game CD and box to where you purchased it -
Name:
Shipping address:
Phone:
Service tag number:
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wow, the cd must have been spinning pretty fast for that to happen. Call tech support and see if they can replace it. It would be a long shot but I would try to make them repllace the game CD too.
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What game was it?
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DELL-Chris M
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I escalated this to my EURO brethren.
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wow, i must be really unlucky then to have got these results. the game was Lock On it's a fighter plane simulator..maybe it was built badly i guess. anyway i'm on phone with italy dell support let's see what they can do.
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Just today a cd exploded inside my dell at work. It was a desk top computer. If the myth busters found this phenomenon to be a myth, they were wrong. Did your cd get mailed to you from somewhere?
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While MythBusters is entertaining, I wonder about the scientific value of some of their experiments. However, I'd still suspect a faulty CD if one comes apart in a drive.