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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject: xbox 360 dvd drive not reading discs
ive had it since november and my dvd drive has crapped out it wont read half my games and needs to be repeatly opened and closed to get nearly every game open, i dont think this sort of errors covered in the warrenty so im going to firstly try a standard cd/dvd lens cleaner and if that fails ill crack the sucker open clean it all out, i also read due to overheating it can affect the connector and sometimes just removing it and replacing it will sort it out is this true? or is there any sort of way to maybe prevent the overheat, like putting something between the two?
This is usually a laser issue. My old xenon xbox did this exact thing (it had a samsung drive in it) and a quick laser swap fixed the problem. _________________________________________________________
bomernee 360-HQ Genius
Joined: Apr 20, 2006 Posts: 1105 Location: UK XP: 60,078
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:42 pm Post subject:
issue resolved - i cracked open my box took the dvd drive out, opened that up, got a cotton bud and with just a drop of water gently cleaned in circle motions - cleaned all dirt out i could easly do from dvd drive, motherboard fans and case, put it back together and now it reads first time or second attempt without fail awesome.
X_Splinter Moderator
Joined: Jul 03, 2004 Posts: 2385 Location: Portugal XP: 368,740
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:
bomernee wrote:
issue resolved - i cracked open my box took the dvd drive out, opened that up, got a cotton bud and with just a drop of water gently cleaned in circle motions - cleaned all dirt out i could easly do from dvd drive, motherboard fans and case, put it back together and now it reads first time or second attempt without fail awesome.
Use Alchool is way better than water, I used to do that with xbox1 _________________________________________________________
gamexxover Moderator
Joined: Feb 17, 2007 Posts: 2131
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:31 am Post subject:
X_Splinter wrote:
bomernee wrote:
issue resolved - i cracked open my box took the dvd drive out, opened that up, got a cotton bud and with just a drop of water gently cleaned in circle motions - cleaned all dirt out i could easly do from dvd drive, motherboard fans and case, put it back together and now it reads first time or second attempt without fail awesome.
Use Alchool is way better than water, I used to do that with xbox1
Agreed, I use rubbing Alcohol when ever cleaning any laser lenses, vcr heads or any other similar type of electronic part that needs to be cleaned. The alcohol will dry out quickly with no danger of moisture being left behind.
Glad you got it working again, my xbox started doing that about a month or so ago, got real bad, had to open and close over and over, power on and off over and over for half an hour before it would read my disc, now for the last 2 weeks it has not failed once, works like nothing was ever wrong, I have not cleaned or fixed anything , it just stopped screwing up. I posted that if it failed completely I would not buy a 4th! xbox to replace it. Then soon after it started working fine ...hmmmm. Maybe MS is screwing with me, hacking into my xbox and making it give false errors so I will go out and buy another, a very devious plan Mr. Gates! but then I posted publicly here ( Mr. Gates is a big fan of our site you know) I would not fall for his plan to purchase another, so Mr. Gates decided it would be more profitable to keep me as a continued Xbox Live customer than loose me for good, So he remotely disabled the laser block he activated on my console. Yes I am on to you Mr. Gates!.
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