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Jharris8

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Switching Dvd Drives
« on: November 02, 2007, 02:03:00 PM »

PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!!!

Ok well here what the problem is, I just bought a new Toshiba Samsung DVD drive(ms25), and i want to switch it out with my old broken drive(which was same type as new one). Well ive opened the 360 adn i swpped the drives but it still says open tray. I looked on the web and it says i need to switch like a key code form each drive or something and idk how to do this so please can someone make me like a picture tut on what to do at this step please......
ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED

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RDC

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Switching Dvd Drives
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2020, 04:38:00 PM »

The logic board is the DVD drives motherboard, not really a smaller word but maybe that describes it better for ya? By swapping the boards between the drives (must be the same make drive) you are bypassing having to mess with the FW key and such since that's on one of the ICs that are on the board. This will also tell you if the problem is on the board or if it's the laser. If the original drive was broken by you messing with the FW or fried by plugging it in wrong or has some other thing wrong wit it then swapping the logic board isn't going to resolve anything and you'll have to get the key from the original drive. Also, if the problem is the 360 it's not going to matter what ya do to the drives. That new DVD drive should work fine in your 360 and play CDs and DVD movies with no issues, that's a perfect test of that, the only thing it will not play are any game discs because of the key not being the correct one.

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