Xbox 360 thinks games are dvds!!!

codl07 · Post by **codl07** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:02 pm

I bought a 360 pro and the guy i got it from said it had a bad eye. It would read cds just fine but when you put a dvd or 360 game in it wouldnt spin. I bought a new eye and put it in the drive and whenever i put games in it tries to play it like a dvd and it plays a video that says put disk in a xbox 360 console to play. I put my old eye back in and there are 2 adjustments on it (variable resistors or capacitors im not sure which). I think one controls how close to the inside the eye comes but im not sure about the other. I got the old eye to read but it does the same thing. We changed the whole drive with one from another xbox and still same thing.

Any Ideas???

Aguiluz · Post by **Aguiluz** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:43 pm

Have you actually tried to clean the lens?

(eye = lens)

xtrmgam3r360 · Post by **xtrmgam3r360** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:37 am

maybe the disc is just scratched or cracked. Thats what my friends copy of halo did when it got a small crack.

codl07 · Post by **codl07** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:00 pm

Yes i have tried to clean the lens and we used a working drive and it still doesnt accept it. It is not the disc ive tried other ones.

techknott · Post by **techknott** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 2:15 pm

You cannot just swap out the drives, the key must marry up to the one on the motherboard. You need to extract the dvd key(drive firmware) and flash it to the new drive. Thats why it thinks they are DVD's, it needs that key to access the game partition.

avadyn · Post by **avadyn** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:32 pm

i've had the exact same problem. i got a good drive of the same exact model and swapped out the motherboards of the drives. it works great now! and it was a lot easier than trying to get the firmware off haha

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:38 pm

avadyn wrote:i've had the exact same problem. i got a good drive of the same exact model and swapped out the motherboards of the drives. it works great now! and it was a lot easier than trying to get the firmware off haha

I've done that too; it's an easy way to do it.

NixonTech2071 · Post by **NixonTech2071** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 7:46 am

Cant resist.... telling.. cheesy jokes.... is the Xbox retarded?

Ok, Sorry...

Yeah it has to be something with the format reader. (something besides the lens?)

codl07 · Post by **codl07** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:11 pm

Thanks ppl! I figured it out. The old eye was scratched and thats why it wouldnt take discs and the new one had a solder point that needed to be removed prior to use. I am buying a new drive now and just swapping boards on them. The old drive has a problem and it keeps scratching discs and eyes. Thanks a bunch for the ideas.

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Xbox 360 thinks games are dvds!!!

Xbox 360 thinks games are dvds!!!

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