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Ok, my Xbox 360 is not reading any discs. I took it apart and cleaned the disc drive's lens, put it back together and it worked fine.. For one day, now it won't read anything again. Can anyone help me here? By the way, my disc drive is a Philips & Lite-on DG-16D2S.
What you could try is remove your hard drive and see if you can play a game without it, if this works reattatch the hard drive and see how you get on, you would be suprised how many times this works.
hope this helps.
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It seems your laser isn't reading the second layer on the games. Regular DVDs have only one layer of information, Xbox 360 games are "Dual Layered" meaning twice as much information in the same area. I would recommend buying a replacement laser from eBay and installing it yourself (as you already know how to take the Xbox apart)
If you have recently tried to mod your Xbox 360 then you did not get the drive key installed correctly. Otherwise the laser lens is either dirty/ starting to weaken. You can either replace the laser lens in the disc drive, try to clean it, try the POT tweak or replace the whole disc drive. Keep in mind if you replace the disc drive you will need to swap the PCBs or the drive keys.
Hope this helps.
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I just found a post on this and it worked for me. My warranty is past. So I took matters in my own hands. I took it apart which was fairly simple cleaned the lens and surrounding areas but it didn't work. But this is what I found out its not reading the disk because the disk isn't spinning. With the box apart and drive open I put it back in the system and turned on the power I noticed the drive would spin slowly I then while the disk was trying to load I spun the disk by hand to help it along and wala it started spinning I powered down put it back together and as of 10:45 2night my gaming nightmare is over. I hope this was helpful. Good luck all!!
three things you can try, one: use a lens cleaner and see what happens. the other two requie that you open your console there are hundreds of tutorials online. Two: open the drive and clean the **** out of it use rubbing alchohol and q-tips carefully clean the lens and the rails and try again. Three: buy a new drive, make sure hat you get an identical drive then when you get it in, take the new drive and the old drive apart and switch the circuit boards on the bottom, take off the 4 ribbon cables CAREFULLY and plug them back in CAREFULLY when all is said and done you should have the new drive with the old firmware and security key and you are done.
I believe you can use a DVD cleaner
without voiding your warrenty. If you have a warrenty then call Xbox
tech support to get it fixed. And if you don't buy an extended warrenty
for $50 and then call them and tell them you need your Xbox fixed
steps to be followed.
step 1
Purchase
a DVD lens cleaning disc.
Step 2
Turn on your television and Xbox just like you normally would to play a video game.
Step 3
Open
your Xbox's disc drive, placing the lens cleaning disc in the drive
face-up. A lens cleaning disc works by sweeping small brushes over the
laser lens surface. These brushes are located on the bottom of the
disc; be careful not to touch the brushes---the microfiber brushes are
delicate and can become damaged easily.
Step 4
Close
the Xbox and let the machine power up; make sure your television's
volume is turned on. Your Xbox should automatically take you to the
system's standard CD player menu. If this does not happen, select the
menu manually using your Xbox controller.
Step 5
Begin
playing the first track of the cleaning disc. Listen carefully, because
audio directions will play indicating the steps necessary for properly
using your cleaning disc. Each brand of lens cleaning disc will have
different steps, but they are typically very simple, involving tasks
like skipping ahead to different tracks or briefly putting the CD in
fast forward mode. If you cannot hear the audio directions, consult the
written instructions packaged with the disc.
Step 6
Remove
the cleaning CD after you've followed the audio directions---a typical
cleaning cycle only takes a few minutes, and the audio directions will
tell you when cleaning is complete.
Step 7
Carefully
place the lens cleaning disc back in its case, avoiding damaging the
brushes on the bottom. Lens cleaners can be used multiple times, so
plan on using the cleaning disc regularly to help avoid future problems
with your Xbox console.
if you can't send the xbox back to Microsoft this worked for me.
The 360 would spin the game up and say reading but than stop and do nothing.
I took the case apart, took out the cd drive, took that apart so i could get to the laser.
put a little big of very clean water on a q-tip, wipe the laser lens down and use the dry side to dry it off. put it somewhat back together and test, this worked fine for me, it read a disk no problem.
First of all clean the disc, use warm water and a soft rag. after cleaning the disk, very carefully take apart your XBOX and use the rag to wipe off the eye touch nothing else. Place the XBOX together the same way that you took it apart. Hope this helps!
Bad Cdrom/dvd The laser going bad is a pretty common issue with the drives, since it's a Hitachi that spindle motor could be all gunked up with dirt as well and cause that issue also.
if ya have a Hitachi, if it's a Samsung it could just be the laser. http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/xbox_dvd_repair.htm
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