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DMW
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12. January 2009 @ 15:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi Guys,
Have had a flashed 360 for a while now, but only really used it as a media center.
I have a mixture of orginal games and backups and until recently all have worked ok.

I started using it a little more for games and it was struggling reading any, backups or orginals. It was a case of insert disc, eject drive, close drive, eject drive, close drive and mostly 6 or so times and the disc would load.

As it was on originals too I assumed laser (rightly or wrongly I dont know). I bought one on-line, stripped the XBOX and drive, replaced laser and put back together. It was all easy enough, or so I thought.

Now the discs just will not spin, at all, no attempt is made by the drive.

Coincidence? Was the motor bad too? Or have I done something while tinkering?

Any ideas will be appreciated guys before I decide to simply replace the drive, which probably would have been easier lol.

Thanks in advance.


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blake1234
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12. January 2009 @ 18:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
are you sure it isn't spinning, did you desolder the antistatic point


should look like this
DMW
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12. January 2009 @ 19:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hmm, thanks for that. I didn't de-solder that bit and will have a look tomorrow to see if it helps.

But when I put a disc in it just doesn't attempt to spin up, would this affect that or would it just stop the laser reading the disc?


blake1234
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13. January 2009 @ 10:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i dont know if it woul effect it spinning but that has to be desodered or the laser wont light up
did you use a tutorial
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DMW
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13. January 2009 @ 19:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks, opened it up, did the solder thing and it's all good now! :)

I followed a tutorial on stripping the XBOX and drive from llama.com, guess I should have looked for a laser replacement specific tutorial eh!

Thanks again.


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