Topic: Xbox360 Spits Disks Out (tray Wont Stay Closed With Disk In) (Read 28 times)

areet · « **on:** August 17, 2006, 08:45:00 AM »

Figured it out. I guess one of my friends knocked it over when I had lent it to him. I took the thing apart, and played with the DVD drive for a while, reseating the ribbon cables and such, to no avail. I looked at the top of the dvd reader tray and the magnet from the center of the drive (spindle) broke off, and got stuck to the lid. I put a thin layer of gorilla glue to the magnet, and pushed it back into the spindle. Voilla'! It works again.

anteperra · « **Reply #1 on:** November 17, 2006, 08:04:00 AM »

Thanks a million for starting this thread!

My 360 had exactly the same problem, and I just could figure out what the **** went wrong... after reading this though, I located the problem in like 5 seconds. It's a good thing there's more experienced people out there than me...

But hey, I'm learning, right?

Thank you microsoft for increasing my technical know-how... or something...

Jballer033 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2007, 02:52:00 PM »

Yeah I had the same problem and without his post i would have had to endure a lot of frustration. Thanks for help!

XceeD · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2008, 08:25:00 PM »

pictures would be nice

mr2000jp · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2008, 05:37:00 PM »

this is common with the hitachi lg drives , and it deednt be knocked out or something to happen , it might happen earlier if you used to play a crappy cheap dvd's on it , that makes it make high noise while spinning

GamestationOH · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2008, 08:18:00 PM »

This is going to be a another major problem fro the 360. I have seen 5 of these in the last month. In the 8+ years of fixing PS2 and Xbox's (PS one didn't have a magnet) I have never seen this happen before. I have seen fools destroy there PS2 motor and the magnet will still be attached to the spindle!

HackerSupreme · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2008, 05:18:00 PM »

God each drive sucks.

Hitachi-Loud, and this shit happens
Samsung-belt wears out
BenQ-Has problems with GTA4 backups
New Philips-Can't be hacked...god can't we just get a drive that works?

ramulus · « **Reply #7 on:** August 17, 2008, 11:09:00 PM »

Hey, I just finished this fix and took some pictures. I'll edited them to be more helpful and post them shortly. It's pretty unnecessary - it's a very easy fix. But if you want they will be here in a day or so...

jimbobjim · « **Reply #8 on:** August 18, 2008, 06:34:00 AM »

It's not a really common thing with Hitachi drives but it does happen from time to time. I've probably repaired half a dozen with this fault. I'd say that Samsung tray sticking is a real problem.

A good strong super glue should ensure it never pops out again.

Skeeterbite · « **Reply #9 on:** August 03, 2010, 06:22:00 PM »

CURVEBALL!!!!!!!!!!

I have the same problem.... No surprise there...

But the magnet is still where it should be!!!!!

Now what?

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