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xyz101

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Concerns About My X360 Core.
« on: July 25, 2006, 01:56:00 PM »
Hi, I' ve had a Core before and it froze on me 3 times so I decided to send it back to MS and they gave me back the exact same model, I' m here to know if there are differences between the different DVD drives produced in X360' s; which one do I have and does it have a tendency to be a faulty drive. Since I got it back, it froze in-game once in FIFA World Cup and skips and freezes when reading some pron DVD' s (that my friend lended to me of course)...

So my question is, should I send it back to MS a second time and can I ask for a different model, one that is more recent and doesn' t usually cause problems like that (wondering if Cores are all the same too)?

Thanks for everything...

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CattyKid

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« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2006, 02:36:00 PM »
None of the 360 DVDs are notorious for failing... yet. And Premiums fail at the same rate as cores.
How long have you had the new 360 for?  My 360 has frozen maybe 5 times since November when I got it... so freezes SOMETIMES do happen.  As for the skipping on the DVDs... maybe damaged (scratched, dirty?) or low quality copies?

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jabroniekilla

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« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2006, 02:38:00 PM »
freezing pron must suck when you are cuffin' it.
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xyz101

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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2006, 01:36:00 PM »
QUOTE(CattyKid @ Jul 25 2006, 09:07 PM) *

None of the 360 DVDs are notorious for failing... yet. And Premiums fail at the same rate as cores.
How long have you had the new 360 for?  My 360 has frozen maybe 5 times since November when I got it... so freezes SOMETIMES do happen.  As for the skipping on the DVDs... maybe damaged (scratched, dirty?) or low quality copies?

Sorry for the long response time!

I' ve had the replacement unit for about two weeks now and it has already frozen three times, twice when booting, once during gameplay and has trouble reading cheap DVD' s. You' d expect after paying your machine several hundred bucks that you wouldn' t have to go through this, especially after owning one of the dreaded Thompson drive for almost half a decade...

The thing is, I don' t want things to get worse over time and would like to take advantage of the warranty while I still have it... I have heard that they are different DVD drives for launch consoles and the ones that were manufactured later on, is that true; and how can I tell which one I have?

Anyways thanks for your help.
QUOTE(jabroniekilla @ Jul 25 2006, 09:09 PM) *

freezing pron must suck when you are cuffin' it.

 Damn thing wouldn' t even let me pull my zipper down!  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

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xyz101

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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2006, 02:54:00 PM »
Ok, I' ve browsed the pinned topics a little bit and found that that I had a Hitachi drive for both, which I' m sure proves less reliable than the Samsung one in most cases, plus it makes more noise; I wonder if I could phone them and ask them to send me a Samsung one instead, if it is present in some X360 Cores as well... I' m waiting for one last stuck image and returning it... (probably...)

I' bet you too have a Hitachi CattyKid?

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xyz101

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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2006, 04:56:00 PM »
bump... Are Samsungs more reliable like that was the case with the original Xbox?

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