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[jesterferian]

I was having a session of Pro Evo6 at the weekend and to my horror my hitachi drive made the most horrendous noise after about 4 hours of play, it sounded like the disc was getting scratched up like fawk but the disk was pristine not a scratch so I opened the whole unit up and had a look and everything looked fine so I put it all back together and guess what same nasty "shr'gring...shr'gring...shr'gring...and on and on".
I thought maybe it was a firmware fault so after updating the firmware to maximus 2.3 (thinking maybe this was the problem) the same thing happened.

Now knowing not a thing was wrong on the firmware side I did some diognostics with it all opened, I took the deely? that holds the dvd in place out of its housing and placed it on the disc whilst the whole unit was open and watched as the disc spun up and the laser was constantly searching the center leadin data in tandam with the "shr'gring...shr'gring...shr'gring...and on and on" so off it went and I checked the dvd spindle and although it looked fine there was one problem, the magnet was stuck onto the deely? and not the dvd spindle at first I thought "nah, its fine maybe its ment to be stuck there" but then I checked in the spindles hole and there it was the 3 spots where the plastic legs held the magnet in place so with out further ado the super glue was in it and the magnet was once again stuck in place.

First few trys it still made the "shr'gring...shr'gring...shr'gring...and on and on" but that was only due to having excess super glue residue on the magnet but once it was all scrapped off the drive now works as once it did.

1/ Check if the magnet has come off the center of the dvd spindle inside the dvd drive.
2/ Take the magnet off the deely?
3/ Put a dab of super glue into the dvd spindle where the magnet would go
4/ Place magnet back into it dvd spindle housing
5/ Finally scrap excess residue off magnet (and the very center hole if any is in there as the deely has a nub that needs to fit into this hole)

My drive is a Hitachi 47DJ but if your drive is making excessive noise and not loading games due to this noise then try the above. At a guess I would think its happened due to quick changes in speed/read/seek making the 3 spots of plastic holding the magnet in place break.

Hope this is of some help to someone else whos drive is seemably fawked.

This post has been edited by jesterferian: Oct 30 2006, 07:15 PM