Can anyone here point me in the right direction? I've dug around the net looking for a good hardware tech forum for the Xbox but find nothing of value.
My son's Xbox will no longer recognize a game disk. For a while it would still play a CD, but now won't even do that. Microsoft wants $130 to fix it, but we might as well buy a new one and keep this for spare parts/hacking.
I pulled it apart and cleaned the lens with a soft brush. The mechanism seems fine and it spins up and seeks, but spins down again after a few seconds and says that it cannot recognize the disk.
Some forums hint that there may be a way to format the HD and do a software based alignment of the game disk read head, but I cannot find any details.
If anyone knows of a really good Xbox tech forum or has any knowledge of this problem, their assistance would be greatly appreciated!
My son's Xbox will no longer recognize a game disk. For a while it would still play a CD, but now won't even do that. Microsoft wants $130 to fix it, but we might as well buy a new one and keep this for spare parts/hacking.
I pulled it apart and cleaned the lens with a soft brush. The mechanism seems fine and it spins up and seeks, but spins down again after a few seconds and says that it cannot recognize the disk.
Some forums hint that there may be a way to format the HD and do a software based alignment of the game disk read head, but I cannot find any details.
If anyone knows of a really good Xbox tech forum or has any knowledge of this problem, their assistance would be greatly appreciated!