this is happening to me also, xbox is only a month old.

this takes the ****. MICROSOFT FING SUCK DONKEY BALLS.

on hold at the moment to the uk as their warrenty number for ireland does not EVEN WORK!!

pissed right off with this shoddy piece of ***.

I suggest everyone boycot and send back this pile of dog wank and get a refund.

I can't believe this crap. I dont know who to trust Microsoft or EA. They are both full of ****. Starting with EA not making the games Backwards Compatible. Now this. I have a toshiba drive, and the game NCAA 07 freezes every time, I play. And its getting worst, now it freezes a a few minutes. If anybody has any recommendation that really worked let me know plz.

I have had my system for roughly 2 weeks. I reneted NCAA 07 and didnt have a problem with it. I then purchased the game new and unopened and played it that day without a problem. The next day i played it no problem and turned off my system, couple hours later i restart my system and there it is. I clean my disc a couple times and then get the "Please insert this disc into an xbox 360 console" Later i get it to work and it is unreadble mid first qtr.

I am upset because  I own Madden 07, Tiger 07, and Fight Night 3 and i dont like any of them. I only like NCAA 07

I checked my disc and there are two small scratches on the perimiter that are paralel to eachother and about 2 cm long. I have seen pics online from when people move thier systems and they have the two large rings on the perminter. Think is I NEVER touch my system, a beauty of the wirless controller. So for it so scratch the game is ridiculous.

What will MS or EA do about this?

Mine is sitting horizontally and it has happend over and over and over again.  I have returned two discs already and this is getting to be a real pain.  It does not happen with any other games.  Can ANYONE help me as this is driving me batty.  I need this game to continue my life....

I guess this is safe to say this is a disc error. I have had no problems with any other game but NCAA Football 07. I have played seasons, in MLB 2K6, Tiger Woods 07, NHL 07 with no problems. Can EA please get the big titles right? Does it seem like every year for every console there is something wrong with atleast one big title?

I guess no more NCAA Football 07 for the year, right when the football season is getting big, 2 weeks from Football Armageddon in Columbus.

Hmmm, got Marvel: Ultimate Alliance on Friday ( I know, different game, but it helps show its not just EA). Played it for about 2 hours on Friday, 3 today.
Then after getting to Manderin and completing him, it got a Unreadable Disk error. Gutted.
Luckily it didn't kill my save, but it did stop my enjoyment.

Only happened once I pressed the Xbox Guide button, but could be a coincedence.
Anyone else find its the button of death?

Man i have been dealing with this for like 4 months now. I put ANY disk in, It could be brand new starit outa the box and this happens. I would restart the system like 50 times ( not an exageration) before it would finaly read disk and not give me the stupid " please insert this disk into an xbox360 console" error. Which really pisses me off because its like, what the *** did you think i put it in. Dont you know your a xbox360 console. Has Microsoft created a console with split personalitys. Anyways, i took it back for warenty and i'll post again when i get it back 2 months from now!!!! God damn Bill Gates

Alright….here is my update.   Since my last post I was noticing the problem pretty much every other load screen, while playing Dead Rising or during the default replays in Madden.  I called Microsoft and they said I had to send it in to get it fixed….and then they said my system wasn’t under warranty so I would have $150 + s. h. to get it fixed.   I proceeded to politely say f*ck that and would try and deal with it on my own.   After some more research I found that corrupt game cache can cause the system to freeze.  I then figured out how to clear all my game cache (search clear Xbox 360 game cache in support) and noticed that it pretty much fixed the problem…..I’ve had one freeze in the past month playing DR which is a definite improvement….None of my other games includeing Gears of War seem to have the problem…Not sure if this will help with NCAA 07 but its worth a shot.    

This has happened to me on GoW. It just started happening, I can see sorta a scratch, but nothing bad like other games of mine, the game is brand new too, and I handle it perfect. It don't do it with any other of my games though, but still does it with the HDD off my console. Should I get a new game and see if it works? (new GoW?)

This happened to me too recently!!!

I got FIFA07 about 2 weeks ago, and the problem happened to me these days!!! Is it a software's problem or hardware's?? And I have read you guys' post and noticed most of the problems happened with EA's production?!

Another information I can provide is: I've never had this problem with EA's BF2 before, but after I played FIFA07 and saved game, it happened on BF2 once! Does it mean anyting?

Yeah, this has happened to me too. What I've noticed is that it seems to occur on games I play more often than others - and I don't mean in one sitting. My theory is that the xbox itself is smudging / scratching the discs and the reader is very sensitive. Usually if I give the disc a good wipe after getting the error, it fixes the issue and I won't get it for quite a while.

Anyone else notice the same?

i have gotten the errors from the 360 not recogonizing the disc as a 360 game to the game stopping right in the middle of play saying the disc is unreadable. i would wipe the CD (even though it was brand new), reset the system after waiting a while, and attempt to play again. getting the same error i call microsoft. didnt get any help or assistance. i go back to my system and it works ok up until i put in call of duty 3. i go through the same routine just to get to play the game...dont know what the *** is going on but now my brothers drive has completely gone out...wont even play CDs, DVDs, or games. this is obvious a problem and microsoft refusal to provide assistance is really making regret recommending the system to my siblings and friends whom have all sent me hate emails. sorry fellas!! 

My 360 was working fine yesterday and today I turned it on and now it can't read any type of discs. No games, dvds, cds...the entire system is broken. I don't know what happened but it sucks baaaad.

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This error happened to me last night (the first time it has happened).  The problem seems to happen when I play Fight Night Round 3, but the thing is that the error occurs at the exact same spot EVERYTIME.  I'd play through one round...when the round ends and you have to clean up your fighter the disc begins to make weird "clicky" noises and the loading is really lagging.  If I'm lucky enough to get the second round going after about 10 seconds I get the "unreadable disc error" message.

Sometimes Oblivion and Fight Night won't boot but this has occurred rarely.  Both discs are scratch-free.

My 360 has the Toshiba-Samsung drive and there are no other EA game saves on the harddrive other than Fight Night Round 3.  Hope this helps everyone to diagnose what the problem might be.

ok, this is getting sad.  Several games get this message in the same place.  One game get this message and we have to turn off the 360 for awhile just to get the game to startup again.    Overheating or bug, I need a solution to this or get a full refund.      Ive spent $200 on games now that have this problem  !!!!!!!!!!!!!

what can be done?

this has been happening to my Call of Duty 3 and NBA 2K7...man i just got the system like a week ago

my brother got the same problem. does a a beeping sound and the get a ugly sound from it and no type of media works. he has called several times and has managed not to receive any assistance other than "sorry to here that but its gonna cost 150 to fix it" thats horse s--t...its obvisously a problem and microsoft should start taking responsiblity for it...because of it my brother is giving me crap cause i hyped up the system for him to get dissappointed later...and he has only kept one game in the console for the entire 4 months he had...switched games and boom..its broke

how do you check what type of drive is in the console?

 

Had this happen to me on Oblivion and now a brand new copy of GOW. Tried playing GOW without HDD in and it seems to stop. A connection maybe?

Add me to the list.

Origianly posted this idea on another thread but it's dead.

Maybe this problem isn't caused by software and therefore can't be rectified with updates. Seeing as its unlikely the software on the disks are killing our 360's, isn't it fair to assume it may be an issue with the GoW disk itself(or any other game for that matter)? During manufacture (I presume) these disks are washed and polished with a number of compounds. Maybe our lenses are being coated and smudged by a compound which hasn’t been removed sufficiently during manufacture.

 

Just a thought.

Could definitely be because of some compound - great post. I haven't had this issue for ages, got it on GOW last night, when I took the disc out, I could see a couple of smudges. I removed the smudges and hey presto, the problem went away.

I talked to microsoft tonight after my XBOX360 DESTROYED my NCAA 07 game and they insisted the system wouldn't do that.  I can forsee a class action soon on these people.  They are proving why their system costs 300 less than the PS3 as we speak.  This is just flat out sad. 

We just got a new 360 and about a half hour into playing it, it started bringing the unreadable error up with a brand new game (Burnout Revenge). Now, has anyone who bought the cooling fan for this specific problem found that it did NOT fix the problem?

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I also have a disc that is giving me this message.  I recently purchased Perfect Dark and was playing through the first mission.  When it loads into the probe screen the system froze.  I then reset the machine and the game now comes up with the "Please insert this disc into an xbox 360" message. 

I'll have to try resetting the cache.  This is annoying.

My xbox has been doing it to I just got it less then a week ago. If first started to pop up when playing dead rising, it did it maybe 2, 3 times then its worked fine for a while now. So I thought it was just something stupid. Now Gears of War did it like an hour ago in the second act. It has yet to do it in dead or alive 4 so i have hope that maybe its just a random occurence .. because i played gears last night all night long and had no problems. There are no scratches in either game. They both still load up fine for now , so i have hope that maybe it will stay that way if its reares its ugly head a couple more times i will take it back for a new one.

 

It is indeed the Xbox 360. Open the DVD tray and near the front of the tray you will see a small hole. Feeling it lightly with your finger may reveal that the edges of the hole are not smooth. I then looked at the DVD. The scratches matched the location of the hole perfectly.

 

So, I took a knife and started slowly scraping plastic away. Not in chunks mind you, just lightly running the knife over the hole and its surrounding area. Then I placed the tip of the knife inside the hole and spun it a little, again very lightly. Then I went back to scraping away. The idea is to make the area around the hole a quarter of a millimeter lower than the level of the rest of the tray.

 

It's been 3 days so far, I have been playing extensively and not even once have I had to restart the game due to "disk unreadable." In fact, just a few minutes ago I took the disk out and looked at it. No scratches, no marks, no scuffs, no dings, no residues, no nothing. The disk is absolutely perfect.

 

So, should you want to venture this way, I would suggest you do it carefully. Dont press the knife hard on the tray. Just hold the blade at a maybe 75 degree angle with the surface of the tray and lightly "shave off" the impurities. I can't guarantee you'll have the same result as me, but I have already enjoyed 3 days without errors and I do hope you get the same result.

 

Oh yea, if this is indeed the culprit, please do *** at Microsoft for their crap quality control....

My first Dead Rising game crashed all the time. I went and bought another one and it does't do it a lot. To test my machine I got some friends to come over and we played every game that they had nonstop with no disk unreadable errors. So, it is the game. . .I think. If it is the console (and Dead Rising is the only game I have played that uses all the cores) then I should probably test my machine with another game that does the same. Any suggestions?

***, if only Apple had made the XBox 360, there would be hardly any problems at all!

My NCAA Football 07 is now a proud member of the "unreadable disc" club.  It worked fine up until about a week or two ago when it started freezing at the first play offensive play of the game.  I tried the clearing of the cache, everything seemed to move better and load faster so I decided to try to play a game.  I got through about the 3 minutes of the first quarter, I put a huge hit on Troy Smith and then the unreadable disc message pops up.  This is so frustrating, its the only game I've had any problems with. The disc has maybe one small scratch and thats it, otherwise its spotless.  I just don't understand why it doesn't work.  I got a new system after my other system got the three red lights, and have only had the new one for about a month.  The disc worked for the first two weeks and now the last two weeks it just won't seem to work.  I just wish there was a logical solution so that I could play, but I know a logical solution won't be forthcoming from either Microsoft or EA.

same here

Is exchanging Xbox's until I find one that actually works a good idea? Or is my XBox fine and the games are messed up. How can you tell???