My Disk Drive Overheated!

[PTL]

I'm not exactly tech savvy but I can say that something is seriously wrong if my disk drive is overheating. I had my computer on for thirty minutes before I decided to try the game. I start hearing this insane whrilling noise from my drive so I decided to quickly eject the disk and low and behold the disk was really REALLY hot! The disk actually looks like it was burned. Good God. What would cause something like that?

I had Civ IV installed and "running" so to speak for about a week now and have experienced nothing comparable in any other game I had ever installed. I'm absolutely shocked.

 

[MarkC1]

did u try to upgrade drivers

 

[lamaslany]

...The disk actually looks like it was burned. Good God. What would cause something like that?

My first thought would be a faulty disc drive.

The 'insane whrilling noise' could result from a faulty disc drive, damaged disc and over-zealous copy protection - although only the first would cause a disc to become burned...

Constant disc access can cause the disc to become warm, sometimes even hot, but it would take a while...

Does your disc drive still work with other CDs/DVDs?

 

[PTL]

It doesn't appear so. No matter the disk, I still get the message, "please insert disk into drive D:". Yuck, so what do I do now? Was it inevitable that no matter the disk, my drive would have acted like that? Or was Civ IV to blame for some reason? I hope that doesn't happen to anyone else. Wow. This isn't fun at all.

Oh yeah, like I said. I had updated my drivers and such. I could play the game up to a certain point - until the game became intolerably slow. But I understood that as a common problem experienced by a lot of people.

 

[1c0n]

ive read that happening to a couple people (less than 3) on my adventures in will civ work land... not enough to convince me of more than CDdrive failure/new civ coinsidense. i borrowed a friends 20" monitor once, for a weekend. fu_ker died while i was at work on a sunday. who's fault? mine, his, or just darned bad luck that i had to buy 2 21" monitors that year

in your case, regardless to what caused it, buying a new one (as much as that sucks) is in order... CD drives arent too pricy now anyways, but get a good brand, and i guarantee it wont happen again... and if it does... well RMA it

 

[oldStatesman]

It doesn't appear so. No matter the disk, I still get the message, "please insert disk into drive D:". Yuck, so what do I do now? Was it inevitable that no matter the disk, my drive would have acted like that? Or was Civ IV to blame for some reason? I hope that doesn't happen to anyone else. Wow. This isn't fun at all.

Oh yeah, like I said. I had updated my drivers and such. I could play the game up to a certain point - until the game became intolerably slow. But I understood that as a common problem experienced by a lot of people.

Sounds like your CD drive is shot. (We are talking about your CD drive, right? Civ4 accesses the HDD a lot, but not the CD drive accept at startup.)Did you update it's firmware or anything besides its drivers? If you did a firmware update and applied the wrong patch, that very well could have fried it.

Or it could have been going bad anyway. Since the CD is really only used at the start by the copy protection stuff, I doubt civ4 had anything to do with it other than being in the wrong drive at the wrong time.

On Edit: The heat could have been because the motor bearings or some other component in the CD drive wore out, thus generating a LOT of heat when the drive was spinning. CD drives are mechanical; this could very well be what happened.

 

[Gregules]

give me a break, you are complaining about a hot disk, and mine won't even play.

 

[HounddogLGS]

grab you a Samsung DVD drive. They make some really godd and QUIET drives. Come to think of it, Samsung does just about everything well.