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[SupaPhish]

My friend (against my advice), decided to try to flash his 360 using the two wire method. This somehow ended up causing the drive to fail to eject.

I thought, okay, he just bricked his drive. Apparently the drive wasn't COMPLETELY bricked because i was easily able to extract the key from the drive. However, any attempt at flashing the drive was fruitless.

So, my friend went ahead and purchased a new drive. I extracted the key from the old drive, put it in the new drive, flashed the new drive, no problem.

After replacing the drive, everythign booted like it should, but the drive would not eject. My first thought was that I bricked the drive, but after some testing, flashing and reflashing with my xbox360, the drive worked fine in my 360.

Reverting the firmware/keys back to his xbox, continued testing found that it was the 360 itself that wasn't opening the drive.  None of the three xbox360 drives i had handy (that are known good drives) opened using his 360, but all opened fine under my 360.

So I have deduced that the problem is actually something to do with faulty mobo/power or some sort. I tried swapping all the cables to see if that was the problem, but found that it wasn't.

Anybody hear of this before or can shed some light onto whether or not his box is fixable?

any input would be greatly appreciated

[blame canada]

I just had a console do the exact same thing, flashed it, then it wouldn't eject. Layed it down on it's side (the 360) so it was horizontal and it ejected, put it vertical and it wouldn't. Your drive probably just has a weak eject motor or needs to be lubed up (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[SupaPhish]

thanks for the reply...

i don't think thats the case because the drive ejects fine in my xbox.. just not his...

acutally.. none of the good drives i had ejected on his box... therefore i thought it had somethign to do w/ the mobo or damage to the actual box and not the drive.

[flash360]

The connectivity kit that your friend should av bought has an eject function, it is controlled from the power cable not the sata.
 I think it should be easy to rig up a simple button to open the drive you just need to know which wires on the dvd to attach them to (like a kind of 2 wire trick) Then again thats what got him in to this mess (cheapskate) lol

[treyking11]

just a thought... i used a wire inserted into the back of the power plug of the drive to get it into mode b when i flashed it for the first time. i read the diagram of the the plug in reverse (looking at it as from the front instead of the from the back) and put the wire in the wrong spot and grounded it at startup. it fried the eject function on the board. if you shorted out pin 2 instead of pin 9, that is exactly what happened.

[SupaPhish]

hey.. thanks again for all the replies..

so it looks like my friend shorted out the board then... AND the drive (but I replaced the drive)

oops.. read the connectivity kit thing wrong... the drive (eject) function is actually controlled by the power cable on the 360 (cause thats how i tested it). I'll look into which wires open and close the drive and perhaps build a switch or something.

anybody know which wires eject the drive?

thanks again for all the help.

This post has been edited by SupaPhish: Aug 24 2007, 03:01 AM

[SupaPhish]

update.

tested out if the drive would still spin.. turns out.. the drive wont' even spin...

anyway... seems like the drive just needs an external power ... anybody have an idea if thats even possible?

thanks

[blame canada]

Well if you find a pin-out of the power cable, you can probably tap power from the plugs on the bottom of the mobo (5 and 12v) and wire them accordingly.

[maximus 1974]

QUOTE(treyking11 @ Aug 23 2007, 07:39 PM)

just a thought... i used a wire inserted into the back of the power plug of the drive to get it into mode b when i flashed it for the first time. i read the diagram of the the plug in reverse (looking at it as from the front instead of the from the back) and put the wire in the wrong spot and grounded it at startup. it fried the eject function on the board. if you shorted out pin 2 instead of pin 9, that is exactly what happened.

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i tried the 2 wire trick backwards... the drive wont eject but the xbox still loads up no flashing lights no red lights
is my drive bricked?

how do i fix this? HELP!!!!

This post has been edited by maximus 1974: Aug 25 2007, 07:50 PM

[myfranco]

QUOTE(maximus 1974 @ Aug 25 2007, 10:16 PM)

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i tried the 2 wire trick backwards... the drive wont eject but the xbox still loads up no flashing lights no red lights
is my drive bricked?

how do i fix this? HELP!!!!

Unfortunately,yes.It's bricked now.

[hunnilingus]

Hi

I have the same problem. I had flashed already with ixtreme 1.2 and the drive worked fine, read all the discs i gave it, but after i open the case and disconnected the drive to install the blaster360 v2 it will not eject. I removed the blaster360 and used the original cables and firmware but still the same problem. I think I may have shorted or cracked something on the 360 motherboard

If I emergency eject the tray fully, while turned off, and then turn on the 360 it will close the drive tray and read the disc/show it in the dashboard. I can play the game but if i restart the console it won't see the disc or open and close the dvd tray. The disc is spinning in the drive as I found out by emergency ejecting it too soon after powering it off. It also seems to read xbox games without a problem.

To make matters worse it opens/closes/reads no problem when in modeb and connected to my pc.

I was thinking of buying a new dvd drive but I'm not sure it's the problem.