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[irradium]

ill jam in a bubber band and see what happens,..  my issue is not unreadable, it is they will play for a short time and freeze pretty much, and they only boot when the box is turned on, ie if i play a game, eject i and put in another then it wont read it, but if i power it off, power it back on, then insert a disk it works for a short time..

could be my box i guess as well..  

tried with and without the hdd attached same results.

plays DVD's perfectly though lol

[irradium]

Im finding this may not be the drive after all, I started a new thread in the hardware section to describe my new findings..

http://forums.xbox-s...howtopic=613598

[IDidMyTime]

I had the same sort of problem,

Everything would boot fine, then after 5 or so mins it started playing up and couldnt read well, then would die, you wouldnt be able to read anything after, yet if you left it for a hour and tried it again it would work.

Replacing the laser didnt work, your going to have to replace the drive entirely, which is what i did and worked fine, if you get another samsung all you would have to do is replace the pcb board from the old drive with the new one, it wont take 5mins.