360 broken? It wont play any disc?

[beukhof1]

Hi all,

I turned on my xbox 360 today and when i put a disk in it, it doesnt seem to read it it just say open tray.

Can some one help me with this??

Btw its a flashed drive with ixtreme and an 79 drive
And it wont play backup or original disks

tnxs

[Arakon]

could be a bad cable connection or the laser fried.

[gigabite]

yes i'd say check all the cables inside the drive, make sure there in securely (be very careful), then if you still get open tray you could try tweaking the pot and cleaning the laser but...in the end you will have to buy a new laser

gigabite

[zillionare]

I've seen this posted many times as a possible fix "Adjust the laser".

Just wondering how the laser reading or not reading media can trigger "open tray error"!?!?

I thought this is handled by the tray in/out switch.

zil

[gigabite]

nonono you see...an open tray "error" can be caused by the laser not picking up the disk...generally meaning it's dirty or dying, so if you clean it and tweak the pot (reduce the ammount of resistance to the lasers voltage so it's "more powerful") it will pick up the disk and the open tray will go away
gigabite

[beukhof1]

I opend it up and the problem is that the disc is not spinning, but the lens is moving.

[Arakon]

if the laser doesn't sense a disk at all, the disk will not even spin.

[beukhof1]

Problem fixed. I replaced the flat cable in the drive there was a cut in it. Bad bad MS.