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[IanJ]

Hi,

For fun I bought a faulty 360 off Ebay just to play around with......just the motherboard & key. The fault was explained only as a "freezing problem".

Under a separate auction I bought a Hitachi Type 47 drive.....as luck would have it, it was the same seller and he told me in actual fact the drive I bought was from that motherboard.

So, after wiring both fans to +12v permanent I powered it up....and it booted just fine. I stuck in an original game and I get an error, something like "please insert an Xbox 360 disc"...and listed under a few different langauges. I tried the usual disc cleaning but the same problem over and over. I didn't notice any error code.

I tried a Movie Dvd and it plays just fine.

I happen to have a spare Samsung MS25 drive so I flashed it with the key and the Type 47 tag (so it pretends to be a Type 47). Plugged it in and I get exactly the same problem as the Hitachi drive.

1. Any ideas?

2. Does anyone know what error I would expect if I had inserted the wrong key?

PS. I tried reading the Hitachi drive to make sure the key was ok......but for some reason I get an error with Toolbox (Type 78 drives & Samsungs are no problem....!).

Ian.