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Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>	Date: 10/16/07 8:31 p.m.
In Response To: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive *OT* (The Se7enth Prophet) : After watching two DVDs yesterday (Little Miss Sunshine and 28 Weeks Later, : in that order, if it makes ANY difference AT ALL, which I doubt), my Xbox : 360 malfunctioned. I placed in the disc tray The Orange Box to play some : Portal, and to my unfortunate surprise was greeted with a "Play : DVD" on the dashboard. I immediately ejected the disc and then : reinserted it. Still, "Play DVD". Well, with my hopes high, I : pressed play DVD. This is what I got: "This is an Xbox 360 game disc. : To play this disc, place it in an Xbox 360 gaming system" (or : something similar) followed by the same message in what seemed like twenty : languages. This happens to me, too. It happened for the first time the first time I tried to play Halo 3. My temporary solution: Use the console horizontally. After inserting a disc, press gently on the top of the 360 logo on top of the console. This seems to lessen the appearance of the "Insert this disc into a 360 console"-- that's basically the DVD track Microsoft put on there in case some moron put a 360 game in a DVD player and expected it to work. As with many good things companies try to do in order to help out the idiots among us, this one backfires: when a drive starts to have problems it finds the DVD track first and ignores the game tracks. : Well, I restarted the system with the disc out of the tray. I got the : standard "Open Tray" message on the dashboard, which I pressed : and proceeded to insert The Orange Box. Once inside, the disc made a : horrendous noise, as if something were scratching the disc. I opened the : tray to find my disc fine, and reinserted in into the 360. The grinding : noise returned, but stopped after a second. I pressed "Play The : Orange Box" from the dashboard. As the system began to read the disc, : the grinding returned, but quickly subsided. I was able to play Portal and : Half-Life 2 fine, so I thought nothing of it. One or two times out of fifty I also hear a loud grinding noise. It doesn't appear to harm the disc, either. If your console is still under warranty I'd have it replaced or repaired, though. For me that is impractical, otherwise I'd also be doing it. : Later yesterday, I decided to play some Halo 2 with a friend who can't afford : a 360 right now, so I put it in. I was relieved when I did not hear the : noise. I played that for three hours, then got an invite to play Halo 3, : so I did. Still no grinding noise; lovely. Old games don't seem to cause the problem. Neither do DVD movies. After happening the first time, the error recurred on Halo 3, Bioshock, and Gears of War. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and all the other Xbox 1 games I tried did not. : Today, after returning from school, I decide I want to play Halo 3. To my : dismay (and nearly having a heart-attack) the noise returned... with Halo : 3 in the drive. I've already inspected the disc, and it is fine, so you : don't need to worry. : Does anyone have any idea what is causing this terrible, terrible noise? My : theory is that the disc isn't sitting right in drive and actually rubbing : against the sides of the tray. That theory would explain why there is no : damage done to the disc. It may also be worth noting that my 360 is in the : vertical position. I'd not use the console vertically. And of course never, ever move or reposition it while it is on, or while there is a disc in the drive.

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Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive *OT*	The Se7enth Prophet	10/16/07 5:11 p.m.
Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive	Injunfett	10/16/07 5:19 p.m.
Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive	The Se7enth Prophet	10/16/07 5:23 p.m.
Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive	Injunfett	10/16/07 5:26 p.m.
Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive	UNSC Trafalgar	10/16/07 6:46 p.m.
New Developement	The Se7enth Prophet	10/16/07 8:01 p.m.
Re: New Developement	Narcogen	10/16/07 8:32 p.m.
Re: New Developement	The Se7enth Prophet	10/16/07 9:11 p.m.
Re: New Developement	Leviathan	10/16/07 11:02 p.m.
Re: New Developement	The Se7enth Prophet	10/17/07 9:13 a.m.
Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive	Narcogen	10/16/07 8:31 p.m.
IF bought from gamestop or ebgames	Injunfett	10/16/07 9:08 p.m.
Re: IF bought from gamestop or ebgames	vshields ash	10/16/07 9:59 p.m.
Re: IF bought from gamestop or ebgames	The Se7enth Prophet	10/16/07 10:11 p.m.
Re: IF bought from gamestop or ebgames	Injunfett	10/16/07 10:37 p.m.
Re: IF bought from gamestop or ebgames	The Se7enth Prophet	10/16/07 10:56 p.m.
Re: Dreadful Grinding Noise - Xbox 360 Disc Drive	PlasmaFire	10/16/07 11:58 p.m.