xbox's are failures. as a console ps3 > xbox. today my xbox broke for the 4th time. well maybe not broke, but the disk drive failed for the 2nd time. I had to get a new laser thing or whatever replaced last time for something like 65$ and you know i am not exactly rich or atleast, have money to spend on this kind of thing. My xbox thinks every disk is either a DVD or registers that nothing is there and says open tray. I've heard I can open it up (which I've done before to replace some other parts, did not damage it in any way etc) and take a Q tip with rubbing alcohol to clean the laser, perhaps this is what's causing my troubles. If anyone else has had this kind of thing, please post a reply to help me out!
that happend to me, but it's because one of my games was dusty when I put it in. I just opend the tray, and sprayed air into it via an areosol duster. It seems to work now.
What he said. BTW i still have my original xbox and it still has never had an error of any sort. And this is not the one i jtagged, it fails like twice a week lol I dont think your personal experience is very common though, so that sucks that you keep getting bugs and malfuntions and errors and stuff like that.
That kind of repair should NOT be $65. I had the same thing, replaced the whole damn drive for $20. Just swap the chips inside, no flashing necessary.
I have had the same problem... I ended up buying a drive and figured out it only read DVDs. So my 2 options were.. 1. flash the drive. 2. Put it back together with the old drive. I got lucky enough that my old drive worked again! I just had this problem again 3 weeks ago and took my Xbox apart. It still works... So I think I'm coasting by.