It wont read games but it will read & play a CD . I suppose the lazer is shot .
XBOX help
Mar 15, 2006
8 Replies
common problem replace the DVD drive.
Very ture about it being a common problem, but you can't just go out and buy any dvd drive and put it in an xbox. You either have to buy a used xbox dvd drive from someone or there is a dvd drive you can hack the crap out of and make it work.. Looks like too much effort for me to try and have it not work right. I'd look into getting a new optical assembly, but first I'd try cleaning it.
-Mike
Try Cleaning the dvd drive.. If that doesn't work look into getting a new optical assembly.. You have to find out what kind of dvd drive you have first.. If it is a thompson here is a link to buy a new optical assembly
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they have all kinds of info on xbox related repair and etc..
- Mike
The DVD drive has failed, there's places that sell replacements, I don't have a link on hand but Google should turn something up, just look for Xbox DVD replacement.
forget Google there is a guy on ebay that sells the thompson drives new for 24.95 i think just search for the xbox replacement drive.... comes from canada unless you can do better than 24.95 for a new drive
Michael Kennedy wrote:
Thanks ! i will start at ebay
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