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louierev07

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360 Freezing During Play, Is It A Dying Disk Drive?
« on: February 02, 2020, 10:47:00 PM »
This 360 would start freezing during play.  Sometimes it would be like 20mins and sometimes it would be like 5 mins until it froze.  I heard somewhere that this problem is an early indicator of an inevitable RROD so i replaced both x-clamps, and also installed a 12cm fan blowing directly on the large heatsink.  After doing this the same thing continued to happen.

From browsing the forums i think the problem might be a bad DVD drive.  What else could it be if its not the DVD drive?

If it is indeed a DVD drive thats the probelm, it is a modded BenQ drive flashed to the newest firmware.  I have an extra BenQ drive from a broken xbox that is unmodded.  How hard would it be to replace the hacked/failing drive with an unmodded/working one?

Any advise will help!
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MadMaxGR

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360 Freezing During Play, Is It A Dying Disk Drive?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2020, 01:13:00 AM »
It might be just your laser lens failing. You can adjust the pot or replace it. in this case you wont need to get into flashing troubles.
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