Unbalanced CD?

[CaptTuna]

Is it possible to have a CD that in unbalanced? I am always on the lookout for games in the bargain bin of stores, older games to play on my P-II laptop. I recently found a game and whenever the disk spins in the drive it vibrates and buzzes. I have since stopped playing that game and no other disks have had this problem.

[juppy]

I've never had that problem with disks in my computer CD drive, but I did with some PS2 games awhile back. Turned out apparently the stupid rental sticker that they put on it was making the disk vibrate....made a horrible noise. I thought my PS2 was coming apart so I didn't play that one anymore. It could also be that the disk is slightly warped, like it would be if it was left in the sun in somebody's car or something.

[Redfallon]

I have a Duke Nukem 3D disk that has a quarter size chunk missing out of the edge....dog was gnawing on it! you want to talk about noisy :) Never tried it in my 52X drive though, figure it will probably come apart...just burnt a copy on the old 4x CDRW on my P3. Luckily the game must have been stored towards the inside of the CD, all I lost were some of the "extra" shareware games they loaded it up with!