as says above dont move an xbox360 from vert to horiz cause it will scratch the dvd
Guru3d wrote:
APosted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on December 5, 2005 - 1:58 PM
A growing number of Xbox 360 customers are reporting having problems with their disc's getting scratched by the DVD drive when switching the unit's position from vertical to horizontal and vise versa.. Initially we thought this was the usual fanboy vs. hater propaganda that swirls around the launch of any new console like this. It didn't take long until the seriousness of the situation reared it ugly head in the Llamma's shop.
I personally have experienced this issue not once but twice already. Here I was at a friends house helping him get this 360 all setup and networked for Live. In the process we decided to lay the Xbox on it side instead of the upright position.. I thought nothing of doing this while the unit was powered up and in the middle of a game. Big Mistake! I felt and heard the scratch happen and immediately thought; uh oh.. I think I just ruined your Call of Duty 2 buddy... sorry! You would have figured I learned my lesson and would be more careful next time I attempted something like that. Yeah.. guess not. Later on back at the Llamma shop I was taking some photos of a 360 when I decided to get a horizontal shot, again it was powered up so I made sure to do it more carefully. I guess that I was not careful enough because I got that distinct vibration and scratch noise again. There was no doubt in my mind what had just happened. I ejected the disc just to see that it was scratched like the first disc in a almost identical fashion. It will prove interesting to see if the reported Microsoft response is true or stands about replacement of the damaged game disks. Here at Llamma we just wanted to know why it was happening.
We started by disassembling of our one of our Hitachi-LG GDR-3120L DVD drives, which happens to be the only drive in any of our 360's. Upon inspecting the laser assembly it was obvious there was only one small area that could have caused this. I applied some silver sharpie marker over the entire black laser assembly housing and reassembled the drive. I threw in the Quake 4 bonus disk and waited for the small jet to take off. After the disc spun up I went through the tilting motion a few times. Video(1.5MB): How to scratch a disc with an Xbox 360(mirrored courtesy of Xbox-Scene.com thanks!). We then disassembled the drive to find what was causing the scratches. The following photo shows exactly where the problem occurs. As you can see the black showing through the silver area that was painted.
(http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/news/images/120205%20055.jpg)
many thanks to llamma.com for this info :biggrin:
video of this happening
360 scratch (http://dwl.xbox-scene.com/video/Xbox-360-Scratch-Disks3.wmv)
ouch ....it even shouts it :roflmao:
y'know I'm sure discmans from, oh 5 years ago maybe, were designed to withstand being attached to a jogger...simple case of using a central holding thingy for the CD. Not hard to implement in the first place really... Another small oversight by microsoft then! A power supply that melts and a disk tray that mutilates DVDs :rolleyes: You can just picture the sony designers hurriedly changing their psu's and disk tray mechanisms...