I gave the EQ lesson on Sunday on Elder Wirthlin's talk, "Come What May and Love It", I realize now that it was really me that needed this lesson. Last night my niece was over from BYU and she needed to do some musical theory teaching for a class she is taking. We ate dinner together and then went to the living room to record the lesson. It had to be with at least four children, well I recorded the event on my daughter's Flip camcorder. The instruction went well, I downloaded the video to one of my computers and found after I got everything setup in Nero that the DVD/CD burner drive was kaputt on the machine with Nero. So I went to our new machine which was purchased for the family for Christmas and that DVD/CD burner was kaputt too. Oh, my niece needs to have the teaching session on a DVD. So, I will be replacing two drives, I'll get the DVD burnt but I needed to heed the words of the talk better than I did last night. I kept asking myself outloud what are my children doing on these computers. Was anyone around when this happened? Of course someone was, my children. :DOne of the DVD drives had a Reader Rabbit disk in it and it exploded. (See the picture above!) I'd seen this happen one other time. I got all the fragments out of the disc drive but the laser that reads the discs is shot. Now I have a funny thought about this experience, perhaps there was a mission impossible type question and it was not accepted. :D
The other computer's DVD drive was stuck in the open position when I went over to use it. I was able to get the drive to close eventually and now I can get the drive to open but closing it requires extra force. If there is a disc in the drive then it takes even more time and more force. I'm worried that once I get it closed with a disc in it, it will refuse to open again period. I'm replacing this DVD drive as well.
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Wowee! That is painful! Sorry bout your bad luck!
In 25 years I've never seen or heard of a CD exploding like that. Crazy. Maybe your whiz kids pushed Reader Rabbit beyond it's capabilities...
Not sure if you knew this, but there is a little pin hole override control on the front of most CD/DVD drives. You can put a straightened paper clip in there and often get the drive to open or close. But if the mechanical components are bullocks'd up, that override won't do anything.
Maybe we should send some cases of those combustible Reader Rabbit CDs to the Taliban :)
This is the second time I've actually witnessed a CD that has exploded in a drive. I did know about the pin hole, that's how I was able to get the drive to open and to get the fragments out. So the drive open and closes now. No rattling bits inside but it will not read a disc now. I think the laser for reading the disc is broken.
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