CD exploded in Sony DVD burner

[detyabozhye]

Hey, I had a CD explode in my Sony DVD burner, I shook all the peices out, but now it won't work most of the time, worked once or twice, it makes a sort of quiet squeeky noise, and the drawer usually doesn't want to stay in. I know this isn't Ubuntu related at all, but does anyone know how to fix it?

[DigitalDuality]

It's probably just easier to go get a cheaper one. Sounds like either a part broke, or you still have some pieces left in there that are screwing up its operations.

Trying newegg.com. You can probably get one for under 40 bucks.

[BWF89]

They showed what an exploding CD looks like on Mythbusters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbusters) once. It was really cool.

[chaumurky]

Find a screwdriver, a vacuum cleaner and have some fun! Don't get too close to the lens though ;-) What do you have to lose? It won't be covered under warranty. My $0.02

[detyabozhye]

It's probably just easier to go get a cheaper one. Sounds like either a part broke, or you still have some pieces left in there that are screwing up its operations.

Trying newegg.com. You can probably get one for under 40 bucks.
I'd really like to rather get it repaired. Especially since it's modified especially for my Vaio.

[detyabozhye]

Find a screwdriver, a vacuum cleaner and have some fun! Don't get too close to the lens though ;-) What do you have to lose? It won't be covered under warranty. My $0.02
Yeah, I think that's probably the best thing to do. I doubt it has warrenty on it right now anyways.

[Bandit]

They showed what an exploding CD looks like on Mythbusters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbusters) once. It was really cool.
Ahh man I missed that episode!!!

[Bandit]

Yeah, I think that's probably the best thing to do. I doubt it has warrenty on it right now anyways.
The faceplates on most CD/DVD drives can be removed and placed on a aftermarket drive.

[ssam]

Find a screwdriver, a vacuum cleaner and have some fun! Don't get too close to the lens though ;-) What do you have to lose? It won't be covered under warranty. My $0.02

its recommended to use compressed air instead of a vacuum cleaner for statically sensity equiptment.

you can buy it in cans from Maplin.

its also good for getting dust out of fans and vents.

[DeadEnd]

Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago, sounded like a shotgun going off, all the fragments from the disc had even dented the metal case inside which scared me because at times I have had to use a old recycled CD drives without any case,after seeing the damage I always made sure they had one.
I read up up on it back then and it appears drive ever increasing speed coupled with old media could casue this,basically the CD/DVD disintergrated

[detyabozhye]

Well, all it took was a little faith and a screw driver. :D I took it apart, and found three or four more peices and one or two of them were jamming the mechanics. Praise God, it works perfectly now. (In case you're wondering, I did pray before going in.)

[detyabozhye]

BTW, did anyone else except me and DeadEnd have this happen to them?

[DeadEnd]

Well he must be on your side, mine was "shot" litterly to pieces.
Got a refund though, after much debate ;) although I did have a tinge of guilt.

[detyabozhye]

LOL, don't u just love refunds?

[WildTangent]

Happened to me once, same story as Deadend, the drives case was dented so much, I couldn't pull it out of the case o.o Well...I got it out eventually, but it involved ramming it from the back with a stick through the vacated power supply hole.

-Wild

[detyabozhye]

Wow. O_O

[Iandefor]

That's amazing. I've never heard of having a disc explode in a disc drive. I wasn't even aware that such a thing was possible... weird.

[gravediggers]

Yeah, that's why you don't see them going any faster than they do.

[psusi]

I've never seen a disc fly apart in the drive before, but I know recent drives limit their speed, at least by default, because that can happen at excessive speeds with cheap media.

I also had a Sony DVD burner, model 710A. The red laser crapped out last week so it would only recognize dvds, not cds. I got a new 810A and it freaks out when I try to format a cd-rw in packet mode with it. It returns an invalid sense code and then won't eject the disc or respond to any other commands untill reset. Updating the firmware didn't help.

In both cases, Sony tech support has been utterly useless. They just replied with a default form asking for the standard information, which I had already given them. I replied saying that I had already given them that information ( it was in the quoted message they sent back to me ) and never heard back from them.

As a result of this, I'm returning the new Sony drive and have ordered a sweet sata plextor that should be here tomorrow. I won't be buying Sony drives again.

[detyabozhye]

Plextor and Pioneer make the best DVD burners, far as I remember. Sony seems to be getting worse, must be cuz they need to eat more sushi.

[psusi]

Plextor and Pioneer make the best DVD burners, far as I remember. Sony seems to be getting worse, must be cuz they need to eat more sushi.

Mmmmmm..... sushi.....

[detyabozhye]

Yeah, they have McDs in Japan now, Yuck! LOL No offense to those who like fast food.

[Virogenesis]

Its happened to me can't remember the burner I had it was some cheap cd rewritter it sucked big time.
Just to inform you that plextor sata burner isn't native meaning its using a cheap converter interface changing it from IDE to Sata I looked at getting one but decided against it.

[Iandefor]

Yeah, they have McDs in Japan now, Yuck! LOL No offense to those who like fast food. Noo! McD's is horrible.

[detyabozhye]

Noo! McD's is horrible.
Exactly, and seems like that's where Sony's employees are getting lunch. LOL

[drizek]

I'd really like to rather get it repaired. Especially since it's modified especially for my Vaio.

no it isnt. i have teh exact same sony dvd burner in my dell. they just change the face plate. you can get a NEC dvd burner off newegg that *should* fit in your laptop. it costs a bit though.

Edit: or is this a desktop?

[detyabozhye]

no it isnt. i have teh exact same sony dvd burner in my dell. they just change the face plate. you can get a NEC dvd burner off newegg that *should* fit in your laptop. it costs a bit though.
1) Sony makes more than one DVD burner model.

2) It's faceplate + drawer, putting that drawer in another burner would mean opening it and therefore voiding the warrenty on it too.

3) Everything's fine now, I took the peices out.

Yes, it's a desktop.

[drizek]

oh, my friend has a sony vaio notebook and his dd burner was exactly like mine except for the faceplate.

glad to hear it worked out :)

[detyabozhye]

I think the laptop drives are too weak to make a disc explode, right?

[detyabozhye]

oh, my friend has a sony vaio notebook and his dd burner was exactly like mine except for the faceplate.

glad to hear it worked out :)
Thanks.

[drizek]

i think so. is yours a 16x?

[detyabozhye]

i think so. is yours a 16x?
I don't remember for sure, but the disc that exploded was a CD, which probably went over 40x before the disc couldn't stand it any more.

[chaumurky]

Ahh, just checked back. Good to see you didn't need the vacuum cleaner (or compressed air ;-))

EDIT: By the way, love your sig. I'd personally backup before saving ;-)

[user00265]

Hey all, my first post around here, but I wanted to add...

A few years ago, namely 2001, I was doing a school assignment in my home, I put the Encarta CD in the drive, after some time it got really hot, so I was rushing to finish... little did I know that I wouldn't get it out on time, and it blew up into tiny shards inside the drive and damaged it totally.

It wasn't a burner or anything, just a plain CD-ROM drive, and it blew into dust.

Amazing how these critters blow up and bust your work, no? :rolleyes:

[public_void]

Found this short video (http://www.powerlabs.org/movies/cdgoodexplode.MPG) of a CD just disintergrating, by spinning it at 35000RPM. Full experiment here (http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm).

[mstlyevil]

I don't remember for sure, but the disc that exploded was a CD, which probably went over 40x before the disc couldn't stand it any more.

Were you burning at the time? If so slow down the drive before burning to 24x and it will do two things. One it will prevent CD's from flying apart and two it will eliminate burning corrupt disc. I have not had a problem with either since I started to do this. I am not sure if there is a way to slow the drive down from 52x to 40x for playing CD's though. If the drive is a DVD burner, you could just switch to using DVD's instead since they both burn and play at lower speeds.

[detyabozhye]

By the way, love your sig. I'd personally backup before saving ;-)
Thanks. No need to backup ur old life, IMHO. :D

[detyabozhye]

Were you burning at the time? If so slow down the drive before burning to 24x and it will do two things. One it will prevent CD's from flying apart and two it will eliminate burning corrupt disc. I have not had a problem with either since I started to do this. I am not sure if there is a way to slow the drive down from 52x to 40x for playing CD's though. If the drive is a DVD burner, you could just switch to using DVD's instead since they both burn and play at lower speeds.
It was reading the CD.

[Sparkalo]

lol! I remember when I tried playing an older game (oregon trail...don't ask) on a newer computer. I had the same thing happen! 52x read + Old CD (meant to be played with a 4x drive) = pain!

Fortunately, my drive didn't stop working, I just removed the drive, took off the plate, and cleaned it out as well as I could. It was in a desktop drive though back when I was still using Windows XP, so I just turned down the drive speed from there.

The only really strange thing was that my PSU died a couple days afterwards...coincidence? Probably, but who knows :p