I have a console that whenever its powered on it ejects the tray (I can live with that). When I put a disc in, I can hear it spinning it up normally as if it would be playing it, but instead the dashboard just sits there saying "opening" so no games (backups and originals and movies) can be played. When I hit the close button, it will close but dashboard still says opening.
When I turn the console off, it pops the tray out about 1/4 of the way (like a laptop) and shuts itself off.
Does anyone know where i should be looking to fix this issue? I have two drives doing pretty much the same thing, and they do it when powered off different consoles too too. I have replaced all cables and everything.
Originally posted by kdn: I have a console that whenever its powered on it ejects the tray (I can live with that). When I put a disc in, I can hear it spinning it up normally as if it would be playing it, but instead the dashboard just sits there saying "opening" so no games (backups and originals and movies) can be played. When I hit the close button, it will close but dashboard still says opening.
When I turn the console off, it pops the tray out about 1/4 of the way (like a laptop) and shuts itself off.
Does anyone know where i should be looking to fix this issue? I have two drives doing pretty much the same thing, and they do it when powered off different consoles too too. I have replaced all cables and everything.
That sounds like an issue with the drives themselves...are they the same model drives?
What type of drive and what type of iXtreme do you have on them. It could possibly be a firmware problem, if you still have the original firmware file, reflash your 360 with the newest iXtreme for your DVD drive.
Well the drive I want to get working is a Hitachi rev 47 and I'm using latest 1.51 I haven't tried copy original firmware back although I have used this same firmware file on other drives with no issue. Almost seems like its stuck in mode b or something. Other drive is a Sammy ts h943
button is sticking. I had this exact issue. Take apart the case and check the "red" button on the board to see if it is sticking. I just pushed mine in a few times with a screw driver and all was well again. Otherwise, spoof to another drive and see if it persists.
Originally posted by gameover9: button is sticking. I had this exact issue. Take apart the case and check the "red" button on the board to see if it is sticking. I just pushed mine in a few times with a screw driver and all was well again. Otherwise, spoof to another drive and see if it persists.
Where is the red button? The testing I have been doing has been with the case off and using screwdriver to push button on mobo and have tried it with case on using controller with the same effect. A spoofed drive seems to have similair issues but not exactly the same
Originally posted by kdn: Restored the firmware but its still doing the same thing. Interstingly when the DVD was connected to the pc it could read the disc fine
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I guess it could be black too. see if it is sticking. That is the actual eject button. You may need to pull the board.
Ok well I have found out the issue may be more serious than first thought. I found someone who had the exact same issues with the same type of drive, however he had caused the issue by using a crosswire trick to flash his drive (apparently you can bridge two connections for 1 second to put drive in mode b) and sounds like he shorted the board and fried something and actually damaged his console while the drive itself was fine.
Although i didn't do anything like that to mine, I did notice I got a few shocks of the metal case when I had the console open. I suspect the board may have been zapped by static.
The basics of the problem are that the console thinks the drive is opening (green light flashes constantly) even when the tray has opened or closed the signal doesn't get back that its open so although the drive is reading a disc the console is still waiting for a open or close signal. I took the drive apart and cleaned and regreased all the tracks, its working well in that sense.
Not sure if theres anything to do if the board has been fried?
