Xbox 1 DVD drive

Turknatr12 · Post by **Turknatr12** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:06 am

If I buy a new DVD drive for my Xbox 1, will it work with it fine right away or will I have to do something special? My other one wouldn't open any longer so I want to purchase another off eBay, but will it work with the chipset?

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:04 pm

Yes, you should be able to put in any Xbox DVD drive into your Xbox and have it work, although Xbox 360 is different, Microsoft had to be dicks and lock the DVD drive to only that 360 and requires you to flash a chip on the DVD drive if your were to buy another one.

Turknatr12 · Post by **Turknatr12** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:35 pm

Ok thanks! I will be purchasing one soon. Once again thanks for the quick reply.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:20 pm

No problem, I love to help.

Just Curious, what model Xbox drive you ordering?

Thomson, Phillips, Samsung?

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:03 am

avoid that Thompson crap. if its used its probably already half broken.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:35 pm

timmeh87 wrote:avoid that Thompson crap. if its used its probably already half broken.

They arent THAT bad, just cant read CD-Rs and some other media.

My friend's Thomson was sitting out opened for like over a year, laser exposed to dust, and had dust caked to the grease that was used to lubircate the gears, and worked 100%, hell worked better than the Thomson mine in my modded xbox.

Turknatr12 · Post by **Turknatr12** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:15 pm

Ya its a samsung. I bought it it, and is new I think. SDG-605

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:25 pm

Turknatr12 wrote:Ya its a samsung. I bought it it, and is new I think. SDG-605

You bought the best DVD drive you can get for an Xbox.

How much did ya pay, I normally see these go on llama.com for like $50-$60 mabey a little more, but thats only when there in stock, and those suckers sell like crazy, although llama.com tends to overprice stuff. ($16 bucks for a 5 device ATA166 cable, used to be $25).

I have been trying to find an broken xbox with a working Samsung since I started getting into xbox modding.

At a Halo 3 LAN party, a few people brought their Original Xboxs, and in total we had 3, each had a differant brand DVD drive, my Thomson was the only one that ejected properly, the other needed to be hit for them to open. One xbox had a Phillips, and one had a Samsung, I was almost tempted to ask the guy if I could swap out that Samsung with my working Thomson, cause I knew a trick to fix the eject problem (The magnet that holds the disc on the spindle was too powerful, so a thick peice of tape would fix that.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:02 pm

Jongamer wrote:One xbox had a Phillips, and one had a Samsung, I was almost tempted to ask the guy if I could swap out that Samsung with my working Thomson, cause I knew a trick to fix the eject problem (The magnet that holds the disc on the spindle was too powerful, so a thick peice of tape would fix that.

Thanks for that, my semi-non-working Xbox has a Samsung and it sticks, I just wiggled the tray a bit to fix it before, I'll have to tape it.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:24 pm

vskid wrote:
Jongamer wrote:One xbox had a Phillips, and one had a Samsung, I was almost tempted to ask the guy if I could swap out that Samsung with my working Thomson, cause I knew a trick to fix the eject problem (The magnet that holds the disc on the spindle was too powerful, so a thick peice of tape would fix that.
Thanks for that, my semi-non-working Xbox has a Samsung and it sticks, I just wiggled the tray a bit to fix it before, I'll have to tape it.

Yeah, just be sure to put it on the thing that presses down on the disc, not on the thing that spins the disc.

just makin sure you understood me correctly.

I have never done the trick myself, but the people over at xbox-scene say it works wonders.

Also keeping a disc in the drive will help it eject also.

Turknatr12 · Post by **Turknatr12** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:10 pm

It cost me about $42. I am modding my xbox because I bet my bud $50 I could take his dead X-box and make a super cool laptop (I get to keep it too!). I have taken the plunge into the xbox before, so I know what I am doing, but this one I got from my bud. It went from not working to almost perfect just buy buying a new hard drive and DVD drive. I am adding no mod-chips, because I want to still pwn on xbox live (halo 2 still has over 10,000 players on average!)

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:48 pm

I was just looking at Ebay, and they have like 10+ Samsungs up there for like $38 Buy it now

Turknatr12 · Post by **Turknatr12** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:14 pm

well ya but with shipping, I got it from a store called ohsiti ( or something wierd)