Help needed....xbox stopped reading disc !!!

us · 24th February 2003

Has this happened to anyone else ?
Just won't recognise any discs.

Any ideas, what can be done ??

**Anakin** · 24th February 2003

have you cleaned the lens

**fe_man2000** · 24th February 2003

does this include originals ?

Cheers
Ironman

us · 25th February 2003

haven't cleaned the lens yet,
but the dvd drive was making funny noises, it's now started to read the discs (detected in evox) but doen't always boot em, and when it does read them it freezes after a short while.

any more ideas ?

**Freaky** · 25th February 2003

can you hear if the disc is still spinning or not m8, and when they do boot and freeze does the game stay on but froze, or does the dirty disc error come up

us · 25th February 2003

disc does spin m8 and when/if the game loads it stays on but frozen.
hope that helps ?

**rmj2663** · 25th February 2003

Sounds like a laser problem as per PS2 behaviour.
How old is machine and how hard has it worked?
May be worth giving the lens a clean. GENTLY!
Hope this helps.

us · 25th February 2003

not that old, not more than 3 months,
it's chipped with the cheapmod and has been playing bulqpaq purple top dvdrs without a problem, it just stopped all of a sudden while watching a dvd.

**Freaky** · 25th February 2003

Originally posted by us
disc does spin m8 and when/if the game loads it stays on but frozen.
hope that helps ?

sorry m8 didnt catch your post.

i thought if the disc stopped spinning it COULD have meen the motor cutting out, but if it carries on spinning then it does sound like the laser, have you got different brand dvd-r discs, if so do these do the same, if all media crashes then it does sound like a laser prob as rmj says.

oh and as fe man said m8, does this happen on originals aswell