Well my 3year old Elite has finally bit the dust. When I put a game in it freezes when loading. Is this a DVD drive issue or a chipset issue?

Anyone point me in the right direction in order to fix it?

 

sounds like the start of rrod, , is it under or over 3 year . maybe still covered?

 

Maybe a dvd drive issue, I had the problem recently when I bought a brand new game it wouldn't show up on the dashboard, said disk error and similar, I bought a lens cleaning disc for a PC from Tesco for £5 and (touch wood) my xbox is working fine again.

I looked into buying a new disc drive and it seems to be £120 just to buy the driver and then it needs to be flashed to work in the xbox so not really worth it IMO.

I would try getting a lens cleaner in there to start with, if the disk drive is fooked then I guess it's probably new xbox time

 

£120? which drive is yours james?

 

Very much doubt it as I got this when the Elite originally came out. Will have to dig around as i think i still have the receipt.

The DVD drive does seem a bit on the noisey side James, so possiblely just bin it as she has already agreed to get me a new 250gb one!

 

dvd drives are about £20 on fleabay, flashing its not hard, hell if you get stuck send me both drives with a few beer tokens and il do it for you !

 

Don't know pal, was just what I found on Ebay when I was looking, mine seems to be ok at the moment so i havent opened it up to look

 

I posted this repair guide a while ago...

https://www.scoobynet.com/computer-r...air-guide.html

It won't work, BUT it will make you feel a whole lot better

 

Jamz - I think OllieRB5 and UlsterScooby were fixing or modding these things a while back. Might be worth giving them a shout - or trying to get their numbers for someone close to home.

2011 ban amnesty over on SI as of today - if you want to use that to get in touch.

 

Call MS, rrod gets a three year warranty

mine went, and was covered


Mart

 

Ah **** i forgot that Rab did the ol' Xbox 360's! Might have to get in contact with him!

Cheers dude!

 

that looks rather tempting!

 

Just checked on Microsofts website and registered by console. Luckily I had 5 days left on my warranty for 3 red rings, so i booked it in for repair.

Ringing them was a joke though, no audio/sound to let you know you are actually in any sort of queue. Gave up after 20mins.