>> Uh, I have no idea how any of this is related, but....well, I patched up to
>> the 1.1.0.2 patch yesterday, and today (the first time I've run it since),
>> the CD, which always used to take 10 mins to get past the secure ROM anyway,
>> took a little longer, and then finally, literally, EXPLODED inside my CDRom
>> drive! I can't open the drive beyond an inch or two, and from what I can see
>> it's in about a thousand pieces in there...hmm, wonder how I'll get a
>> replacement for that!
>> BTW, is it easily possible to unscrew and fix the CD Rom drive? There'll be
>> a lot of pieces in there....
>Opening up the CD-Rom is a breeze once you've taken it out of your case,
>usually 4 screws in the bottom, and there's layers of print boards and
>stuff until you get to the mechanism itself.....but your CD-Rom is most
>likely hosed
>This happens every so often, has been covered in various IT
>publications, but seems to be happening more often than it used to be,
>can't remember the specifics, but it seems to happen more with CD's from
>some game companies that others, and the one we've seen most over here
>is "Sims" from EA
>But with relatively few incidents, less than 10 or here so far this
>year, that may be very skewed, but it has happened to at least 4 Sims
>CD's so far, and 2 or 3 other EA titles
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