My Xbox i think is giving out. i bought it at launch and it never gave me any trouble. Lately i have been geting messages like "Disc is Dirty or Damaged, Please eject" and the disc is brand spanking new outa the box. I suspect the lense is dirty but i dont have a lense cleaner. Could it be worn out.
I get the message after so and so hours of gameplay.
all lasers eventually die. all of them. there is a potentiometer on the laser assembly that you can adjust to increase the intensity of your laser. find instructions on the internet.
but cranking it up makes it die faster. eventually you'll need a new drive. ebay.
So you know you will have to do some modding to make the Xbox accept the hard drive. Either by mod chip or by blessing the new hard drive with the lock code of the old one.
vskid wrote:Nerd = likes school, does all their homework, dies if they don't get 100% on every assignment
Geek = likes technology, dies if the power goes out and his UPS dies too
I posted this up in another forum, and they directed me to a site to help determine what brand the DVD drive was, and aparently i got the crap brand being a 1st run XBOX (the drive is Thompson brand).
My Xbrick has been making some gut-wrenching crunching / grinding sounds while playing over the past couple weeks, but has only frozen once. I'll just keep playing until it catches fire and then worry about it.
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