a friend of mine had a computer, he had it off for around a month while on vacation. he got back, turned it on, everything works. it then froze up and would no longer boot. i went over to take a look at it and the bios wasnt showing any harddrives in the machine at all. i opened up the case, dusted it out, looked for any loose connections, found none. i was confused as to why i got the error in the first place, but i plugged it in after only dusting it out and it has worked fine ever since. i explained how i fixed the drive as it being afraid of me and working because of that.
im not sure if that was a bag shipment or anything, i have heard something similar though. i read somewhere that when a disc is spun at more than around 52x, it can cause massive structural failure to the disc, causing it to literally explode. thats why there aren't drive faster than 52x, and even those have risk of cd-explosions i've heard.
you can blow up a cd in a similar fashsion as well. if you get a dremel with a bit that is wide enough to snugly hold a cd and turn it up, i think over 30,000rpm it will blow up the cd. i have never tried this, but have seen video and it looks cool. if anyone does try this though, do NOT have anyone anywhere around the cd on the sides. just keep back and dont point the cd at people, the way that the cd explodes will send fragments only out from it. like if the cd is facing up when you do it, the fragments will only go to the sides, not up, or down (until gravity takes hold)
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a friend of mine had a computer, he had it off for around a month while on vacation. he got back, turned it on, everything works. it then froze up and would no longer boot. i went over to take a look at it and the bios wasnt showing any harddrives in the machine at all. i opened up the case, dusted it out, looked for any loose connections, found none. i was confused as to why i got the error in the first place, but i plugged it in after only dusting it out and it has worked fine ever since. i explained how i fixed the drive as it being afraid of me and working because of that.
im not sure if that was a bag shipment or anything, i have heard something similar though. i read somewhere that when a disc is spun at more than around 52x, it can cause massive structural failure to the disc, causing it to literally explode. thats why there aren't drive faster than 52x, and even those have risk of cd-explosions i've heard. you can blow up a cd in a similar fashsion as well. if you get a dremel with a bit that is wide enough to snugly hold a cd and turn it up, i think over 30,000rpm it will blow up the cd. i have never tried this, but have seen video and it looks cool. if anyone does try this though, do NOT have anyone anywhere around the cd on the sides. just keep back and dont point the cd at people, the way that the cd explodes will send fragments only out from it. like if the cd is facing up when you do it, the fragments will only go to the sides, not up, or down (until gravity takes hold)