Xbox 360

[Banned]

Does anyboy know how to fix a dvd drive on an xbox 360? I think my drive is bad it keeps saying, when you put a game in it reads the disk and then says tray open. I bought a new drive, its the same one except the f/w i have is 28 and the new drive is f/w 25. i read that this dosen't make a difference, I took the pcb off of the new drive and put it on my old drive and now I get one red light in the bottom right corner witch means no drive found. when i put my old drive in with the new pcb from the new drive it reads it but i still have the same problem as i did before. dose anybody have any idea on how to fix this? or what miught be the cause? thanks.

[JackANSI]

Maybe its some mechanical switch that has gone bad that is telling the system "tray open"?

I have no knowledge of the insides of a 360... My modding days halted at the xbox and PS2

[RobTheDrummer]

Does anyboy know how to fix a dvd drive on an xbox 360? I think my drive is bad it keeps saying, when you put a game in it reads the disk and then says tray open. I bought a new drive, its the same one except the f/w i have is 28 and the new drive is f/w 25. i read that this dosen't make a difference, I took the pcb off of the new drive and put it on my old drive and now I get one red light in the bottom right corner witch means no drive found. when i put my old drive in with the new pcb from the new drive it reads it but i still have the same problem as i did before. dose anybody have any idea on how to fix this? or what miught be the cause? thanks.

Send it to microsoft, they will fix it.

[MeYatch]

apparently they are coded to work only with the drive they came with, at least thats what I've heard from people who know more than me.

apparently even if its not under warrenty microsoft will fix it for like $20 or something quite reasonable, you just have to be without it for a while.

[Banned]

thanks but it is not under warrenty anymore so iwill have to find a way to fix it myself but thanks for the input.

[MeYatch]

apparently even if its not under warrenty microsoft will fix it for like $20 or something quite reasonable, you just have to be without it for a while.

[RobTheDrummer]

thanks but it is not under warrenty anymore so iwill have to find a way to fix it myself but thanks for the input.

Did you already take it apart? If so, that sucks.

[Banned]

yea i did i bought used and the drive was bad i only paided 30 bucks so its not that bad of a loss.

[MeYatch]

if you do figure out how to get a new drive working, let me know. My brother's 360 is starting to have problems with the drive, and a friend of mine has like 2 360s he broke trying to mod them.

[KyleMayket]

normally that's not a drive issue, it's a standard hardware issue. It's a computer chip that doesn't convert the disc signal into a readable format for the CPU, that's at least the common problem that's all over the web. If it's just the drive, consider yourself lucky to just swap it out, replace some jumpers and you should be done, i've never done it on my 360, but i've done it in PS2's and it wasn't hard...good luck with it

[Banned]

normally that's not a drive issue, it's a standard hardware issue. It's a computer chip that doesn't convert the disc signal into a readable format for the CPU, that's at least the common problem that's all over the web. If it's just the drive, consider yourself lucky to just swap it out, replace some jumpers and you should be done, i've never done it on my 360, but i've done it in PS2's and it wasn't hard...good luck with it

I have tried that already, and it didn't work so now i am trying find somone who might be able to fix it. but thanks anyhow

[KyleMayket]

Then the Drive is fine, consider it toast... It's a general hardware failure, a blown card... sorry man, but put a fork in it, or take it (or send it) to Microsoft and they'll fix it for you...for a price...