Glorified Version of A Stranger

This morning, when I arrived home, I played around with my BIOS for bit, thinking that I could somehow overclock with a few BIOS tweaks. Bad idea! After saving my changes and restarting Sofie (yes, my computer, among other things, has a name), I got NO POST. LOL Just one long-assed beep. It’s gotta be memory right? So I reseated my two memory modules and powered up. Yay! I’m back up, but it’s detecting only my processor. No nothing beyond that. Irritatated at the thought of reopening my CPU, I hastened and reseated my memory modules again and was about to screw the cover back on when I remembered that I’d been putting off fixing my CD-RW drive, so I unplugged the cables to my drive and proceeded to tear it’s guts out.

After completely dismantling the cover and the bezel for the CD-RW drive, i found a big-assed piece of a broken CD. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Let me tell you the story of how a CD shattered inside the drive.

A couple of years ago, when I was only a little bit cool, I became addicted to Blizzard’s release for Red Alert II: Yuri’s Revenge. A not-so-cool friend of mine accidentally left a copy of the game at home, so I took advantage and installed it. It wasn’t really the first time I played Yuri’s Revenge so I already pwned the computer AI in the game (Brutal Enemy too!) I was completely into the game because eight hours had passed since I started playing. I decided to finish the last game. All the AI’s (Brutal Enemy) against one uber-cool gamer: Me.

In the middle of the game, while I was pwning Libya and it’s Demolition Trucks, I heard a loud crashing sound. I was fucking startled (I’m a big coffee drinker, so there). Heart thumping, I noticed the computer froze, so being so cool and tech savvy, I realized that the game CD had shattered inside the drive. LOL. Okay, I wasn’t really that cool yet because I didn’t bother to install a no-cd crack. Yeah yeah yeah.

I tried opening the drive but it wouldn’t open. See at that time, my Sofie was still fairly new, so I had doubts whether I should open the CPU or not. Of course I couldn’t bear the though of broken plastic inside my beloved computer, so I carefully pried the warranty sticker off before opening the CPU. I quickly disconnected the cables, and unscrewed the drive. Removed the cover and yadda yadda yadda. You get the drift. I opened the fucking drive and emptied it of broken plastic. I screwed everything in place, plugged the cables back in and rebooted. Great! Everything looks fine! Loaded a Data CD, done! Loaded without problems.

A few days later, I noticed that after opening the drive, it wouild close by itself after about three seconds. My theory was that a gear had been damaged during the small implosion. Tsk. big deal. I’d just have to be quick when inserting a CD-Rom in there.

Believe it or not, I lived with the defective drive up until now. LOL. Uncool. Yeah, but see, I already purchased a DVD Combo drive several months ago, so I was barely using the CD drive, so I’m still cool. LOL

So there, I removed the big-assed piece of broken plastic in the drive. After plugging the cables back in and replacing the cover, I booted back up, POST completed, early boot success, late boot no problems. When I went to My Computer, guess what? DVD RW drive wasn’t there. CD RW drive was there but the computer kept detecting and un-detecting new hardware. LOL. I’m theorizing that the CD RW drive learned to live with the broken plastic inside it and malfunctioned after it’s removal. LOL. Way uncool. One CD RW drive is going to the garbage bin. Blech. So I went back in and disconnected the cables to the CD RW drive For now, it’ll stay there for purely aesthetical purposes, so I still rock.

One optical drive in the computer sounds way uncool. A cool person like myself should have two optical drives. So what optical drive should I replace it with?

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