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[xtbloodbx]

so my 360 kept telling me that every now and then. it started when i bought GH2. then i called m$ and they told me my warranty was up.....just got a refurb one from repair center 8 months ago.....so i hung up on them. then as soon as i hung up on them i was playing GOW and then it quit....i get that error evry game i put in the damn thing.

so i remberd how i use to fix the ps2 when they would mess up and tried a little pot tweaking. now i just get the "open tray"

any helpp? i tweake the cd pot first....then the dvd pot aswell......nothing seems to work. i just get open tray now


and its unmodded.

thanks

[superbee]

Had one the other day with this problem. Open the dvd drive again and make sure the the laser assbly. is all the way against the drive motor assbly.

Mine was hung up for some reason, been working fine after that.

Did you use a multimeter to adjust the Ohms?

[xtbloodbx]

yeah i used my multi meter. the beging reading was 3.86 and i worked my way down and down and down and down.....just open tray. i have pput the cd pot back to where is was...well as close as i could. it was at 3.114 and now i have it at 3.122. but i get that damn open tray. i thinks it weird cause thats not it origanl problem.....it was the please put this disk in a xbox 360 console.......now its a open tray problem.....i dont know. ill look at it to see if its hung up...well i took the spindle out and i can watch the laser move. it only move toward the motor than back then foward then back and you can see the laser trying to read.


i smoke and so does my wife. my xbox1 and my dvd player quite reading disk. all i had to do was clean the laser with alcohol and they work now.....i was think maybe i fogged the mirror up too on my 360

[RDC]

If this is a Hitachi drive, the motor in that thing likes to get full of crud and it will not spin the disc up, so you'll get that error. If the spindle motor seems to spin freely or it's a Samsung drive, then give the laser a good cleaning, but I'd suspect you should look into getting a replacement laser now.

[xtbloodbx]

its a samsung drive. ive been looking everywhere for lasers that are local to me. i did find one guy that has alot of them near me......but he wants me to go through ebay and shipping. cant do ebay......ive paid for way too much and not gotten the items.

i even thought about buying a 360 from walmart and swapping parts......but im not that kind of person.

just thought i would give the ol xbscene a shot at for some tips

[RDC]

@ xtbloodbx - Have a look or post in the 360 B/S/T section of the forums, you'll probably find a good one in there before long.


@ dizzin9 - The Samsung and Hitachi drives both use the exact same laser, so it's not just the laser that is at fault, though it's not the best one ever made either. Samsung drives are noted for being some of the best/worst or worst/best drives around, depending on how ya look at it. How many people have an original XBOX with a Samsung that the tray sticks on it now and then, a lot, I've even got one. Point is it's not just the Samsung drives that are screwy, the Hitachi drives have their own fair share of the problems as well, but ya can't point to the laser being at fault when it's identical across both drives, though I do agree completely that M$ pushed this thing out the door way too fast.

I'd have waited another year for it gladly if they would have 'ironed out' the problems before releasing it, and still preferred it over other systems because the games are really good. When the thing works it's great, but it's no fun playing a really good game waiting for the thing to freeze up or 3RLOD on ya at all, and that puts a big downer on the 360, worst (probably more like non) tested console ever released.

[Ni7ro X]

QUOTE(RDC @ Sep 1 2007, 05:08 PM)

If this is a Hitachi drive, the motor in that thing likes to get full of crud and it will not spin the disc up, so you'll get that error. If the spindle motor seems to spin freely or it's a Samsung drive, then give the laser a good cleaning, but I'd suspect you should look into getting a replacement laser now.

My toshiba/samsung drive reads old xbox games just fine including dvd/cds. The only thing it cant read is 360 games which are Dual Layer i think, in which case my drive needs to speed up to read the 360 game but for some reason it will not go faster and it just makes a weird noise and then it slows down again and i get the error. Would you say this is an issue with the internal motor of the drive?