when garyopa started talking about the possibility of the spring update and the halo3 beta via crackdown could be the start of the banning process, i disconnected my 360 from the internet, and have not been on since. (a week). you think that there is a chance that, if there is a fix somehow, that i avoided the ban and can apply the fix, or have they been keeping tabs since before the update?

well interestingly enough, i have a hitachi 49dj, and i tried doing the two wire trick with it but accidentally ripped out one of the wires from the dvd power cord and it never did quite fit right again. as a result once i turned on the 360 the drive would just eject itself just like you are describing above. I ended up buying a new cord thru llamas and once that was installed the drive has not acted like that again...

Ok, the problem occured from a cold boot, meaning that the 360 had been off for at least 8 hours. Upon pushing the button to turn on the 360, three red lights would start to flash, error 0102, meaning hardware failure (unknown error). The dvdrom drive did not start to spin the disc, nor did the fans come on, and the light on the power supply unit (psu) stayed orange, meaning it was in standby mode. However, after disconnecting the psu and letting it sit for about an hour, I rehooked up the 360 and it booted fine to the dashboard. I have been able to start and stop the 360 5 separate times, and each time I play for at least an hour. The light on the psu now reads green, as it should. I have raised the psu off the ground, but this was a fix for overheating, which this obviously wasnt the case. However, it has worked fine since I did this. Any ideas on this one anybody?

I know the story about the three red lights of death and the cold solder joints. however, my xbox360 does not boot at all, i never had any of those glitches that people report as well. it just flashes the three lights, and nothing powers on. the psu stays orange as well, so I am thinking that I should try a different power supply?

I have a 47D, and i flashed with opas 2.1 firmware. the first three games that i burned all loaded the first try in the 360. However, more recently, I have been having a problem with the drive reading games. I put the game in the 360, the drive starts spinning, but after a second starts making a weird clicking noise, and repeats this noise for a few seconds until i hear the drive stop spinning. This whole time the screen says reading, and never pops up with a dirty disc error. Now, if i sit there and manually open and close the drive, sometimes as many as twenty times, eventually the drive will read the game and that clicking noise is gone and the drive starts humming as it should. I am wondering if this has to do with the security sector being read poorly, and if geremias new update will help this out. I have been using a 111D burner and verbatim media. Again, all the games work, and sometimes they will load first time, other times they take a while, and I am thinking that it has to do with security sector reading... Anybody else find this problem?