The class room Server's Hard Drive caught on fire yesterday afternoon! luckily the teacher walked in the room a few seconds after it happed and noticed the smoke. Everything else in the computer still works including the other hard drive. Inside of case has smoke damage.

Damage to underside of drive.


highres image of what appers to be the point of origin
http://i55.tinypic.com/1y1ll1.jpg

But like the title says, Anything like that ever happen to you?

That's crazy!
I've never seen that happen before, were the internal fans working properly?

This is what happens when you try to save the entire internet.

"Well, good night Irene!"

I've never had that happen to me but I've come pretty damn close- this old XP beside me sucks and the fan make a really loud ruckus.

We threw another Disk in the computer and are currently using it. Everything worked/works fine.

That happened to one of my old laptops, I turned it on and played around on the internet for a few minutes and then tried to shut it down and in caught on fire! It was so weird how it did that but as soon as it caught on fire a grabed it a threw it outside and poured water on it! Needless to say it never worked again but it was crap anyway and it wasnt worth $5. So for Christmas the next year my parents bought me a new one that I still have now.

I never let my computer get that hot. I always freak out whenever it gets louder and the fans start going. Basically, I try to keep it as cool as possible to prevent something like THAT from happening.

Something shorted out. The computer room is always cold, I'm wearing a jacket in the class room right now...

I've never actually heard of a HARD DRIVE catch fire before, I must say it's quite a rare find. Usually plastic from cables nearby catches fire but the drives themselves are made of metal. I wonder exactly what part caught fire. Oo; And Western Digital?! Yipes! I wouldn't have ever thought...

I've honestly never seen this actually happen to a hard drive before. I have heard of several instances from friends (Yoshi648 and KingOfKYA included) about CPUs melting. I also think I may have had a RAM chip short out on me before.

Guess I can't joke about computers spontaneously combusting now, because if nobody caught that, the whole thing could've caught on fire.

I see burns in 2 spots, I wonder if it's possible that a cable touching the drive is what burned up. I've heard of HDDs and CPUs individually causing LAPTOPS to catch fire but never a drive itself catch fire. They're metal and I think even the label is fireproof.

My computer, four years ago, was caught on fire on its own. After investigating, the computer manager told us that the hard drive and other chips were molten, and for some reason, the monitor was caught on fire as well. It was hilarious actually, and I got rid of my old computer and bought a new one.

I've never personally experienced such an accident before, but I did witness Spirit's computer producing smoke when I was at his house. I was scared at the sight in the beginning (it was two years ago, what do you expect?), but then the computer stopped smoking and we felt relieved.

I will admit that I'm under new concerns now, especially after hearing s MODERN drive could catch fire so. I didn't think they could at all. I thought that by design all components inside a PC are either fireproof, or always produce less heat than the fire that combusted them, leading to very rapid self-extinguishing. I often leave the house unattended, and the comp has been running near perpetually for the past 5 years.