Just like the 3 red light club, this club is for those who had a broken disc drive on their 360.  Just post what happened and what you did.

 

My disc drive broke in the middle of playing Call of Duty 3 in March.  It made a weird buzzing noise, and said rite there the disc was unreadable.  Eventually, the disc tray refused to stay closed.  I sent it in, and got a new console a week or two later.

 

I never got three red lights, so its a totally different problem... post your stories! Thanks!

I seem to be having this problem.

My 360 has never had any red lights or made any strange noises,  but right now it won't read any discs and I am waiting on a coffin from Microsoft.

I feel voilated by them,  of that there can be no doubt.  I wonder if brought my 360 in its current condition to a gamestop,  how much money could I get for it?  I got the cash to buy a PS3 but I just don't want one.  I want a 360 but the junk hardware is making it very difficult to own one.

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Who am I complaining to?

I just found this statment in the support section:


 After you verify that the date and time are set correctly on Xbox 360 console, verify that the console does not require that you reset the date and time every time that you turn it on. This issue may be the cause of the Xbox console not recognizing the disc media.


My 360 is doing that,  the time resets to 6:00 am every time I turn if off.

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Who am I complaining to?

my 360 is being weird recently, ocasionally, if it has been running a while, it wont let me close the disc, it will shut then open automatically, it usually does this 3 times then reads the disc, so far hasnt been a problem apart from wasting time, sometimes however it sticks closed, so fix this i just spam out the (A) button on open/close disctray until it works, but tbh im worried its just gunna bugger itself up more. Warrenty almost run out so might have to get it sorted.

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 Mighty Mike 16 wrote:

my 360 is being weird recently, ocasionally, if it has been running a while, it wont let me close the disc, it will shut then open automatically, it usually does this 3 times then reads the disc, so far hasnt been a problem apart from wasting time, sometimes however it sticks closed, so fix this i just spam out the (A) button on open/close disctray until it works, but tbh im worried its just gunna bugger itself up more. Warrenty almost run out so might have to get it sorted.

u r going to want to.... thats what happened to me except it never read the disc once it started... i would hold it in and it would stick close, but not read it and make that scratching sound...

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I can hear it make some kind of clicking noise, doesn't matter what game, and then it sounds like it stops spinning. Most of the games still play, but the music will drop out or some of the graphics will drop out. (ie. playing Forza 2, disc stops spinning? and the track disappears for a few seconds. I was driving on a black strip instead of a track) Usually if I pop out to the dashboard and start the game again, it will start spinning again, but it goes out again after a while...randomly it seems. No damage to the disks, very strange. Any ideas? 

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So what do you want? A fricken medal?!

 Antz N Pantz wrote:

I can hear it make some kind of clicking noise, doesn't matter what game, and then it sounds like it stops spinning. Most of the games still play, but the music will drop out or some of the graphics will drop out. (ie. playing Forza 2, disc stops spinning? and the track disappears for a few seconds. I was driving on a black strip instead of a track) Usually if I pop out to the dashboard and start the game again, it will start spinning again, but it goes out again after a while...randomly it seems. No damage to the disks, very strange. Any ideas? 

thats strange... its prolly the disc drive acting up, but i dont know... u might wanna try customer support...

Im on console number five (when it arrives) & ive had three dvd drive failures now..

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seems as i might join the club...ive gotten the disc unreadable error 2 times in a week and when it does this it makes a clicking sound....still seems to work but it might just die...this is on a refurb too!

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Real games only. Gears 4 Life.

My CD Tray just recently started to not  stay closed when a disk is inserted.  The trick to get it to take for me is that when it closes the powerlight will blink as its trying to acquire the disc.  After a few seconds it ejects the disc tray.  when the disc tray is about 2 inches out I hit the eject button and it closes back up and it works after that.  It does it for nearly every disc doesn't matter as long as there is a disc in the drive.  I've got my 360 is a well ventilated area, and its pretty much sat in that spot the whole time I've owned it (about 8 months now).

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 Technomancer AK wrote:

My CD Tray just recently started to not  stay closed when a disk is inserted.  The trick to get it to take for me is that when it closes the powerlight will blink as its trying to acquire the disc.  After a few seconds it ejects the disc tray.  when the disc tray is about 2 inches out I hit the eject button and it closes back up and it works after that.  It does it for nearly every disc doesn't matter as long as there is a disc in the drive.  I've got my 360 is a well ventilated area, and its pretty much sat in that spot the whole time I've owned it (about 8 months now).

sounds alot like my problem...

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Mine has gone. it just wont stay shut after I turned it on one day. Heaven forbid, I do anything serious. Just turned the git on.

Microsoft want me to pay £80 as its out of warranty. I dont want a PS3 but if it had games out, I would buy one tomorrow as this is my 3rd 360 now which is apalling. What do we put up with this? They claim its 5% error - all my friends are out at least their second 360. Microsoft - you are tnot being up front about all this.

i was playin on NFS: Most Wanted, the game froze,. i turned my 360 off and on again, and now it just doesnt read any disc thats in the drive at all,.. one thing tho,. since i bought the console, everytime i turn it on, the clock is always at 12:00am, it resets the time everytime i turn the machine off,..im not happy at all,. i dont want a refurb console back. .i paid for a new 360 when i got one,. and if they cant fix mine i want a brand new one thanks very much

 DJ Richy Love wrote:

i was playin on NFS: Most Wanted, the game froze,. i turned my 360 off and on again, and now it just doesnt read any disc thats in the drive at all,.. one thing tho,. since i bought the console, everytime i turn it on, the clock is always at 12:00am, it resets the time everytime i turn the machine off,..im not happy at all,. i dont want a refurb console back. .i paid for a new 360 when i got one,. and if they cant fix mine i want a brand new one thanks very much

when i sent mine in, i got a new one, and i doubt they will make u wait for them to fix it....

Well I just went to turn mine on, there was a disc in there - when it started i heard a loud kinda crunch sound. Like it was trying to spin but then got caught. I opened the drive, no damage to the cd, but after putting it back in, i get a disc unreadable error.

Guh.

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will i have to pay for my 360 to be repaired, because if i do i wont be happy,. its not my fault at all that its broken,. and im not paying,

When the XBOX 360 Console is cold, the Game DVD will be read, but the graphics are not loaded correctly and you hear a strange noise. After 1 hour playing, you hear that the DVD Drive interrupts spinning. And a few minutes later i get the message :"to play this disc put it in an XBOX 360 Console". No matter what Game DVD i put into the drive, i get this message, or the disc will be loaded but after a few minute's the screen goes black and i get the message that the disc can't be read.

I send now my XBOX 360 to Repair Center, my Warranty is intact.

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I sent my 360 in to be repaird and they sent it back not repaird because they said that I tampered with it!!!! Those bastards!!! I never touched the dam thing!  All I need is a disk drive. Where can I get one?

i honestly dont kno.. that sucks that they wont fix it....

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