Ever have to open your Xbox and close it over and over again to get it to read? If a Disc cleaner is not working. Here is how to repair it Yourself. this will void any warranty.
This is the best REAL fix it advise I've seen. Much better than those videos that instruct you to eject the tray then jam it back in or bang on the case until it decide to work...
Found a 360 & about 10 games, in my dumpster at work yesterday morning while taking our trash out. 😂 took it home, fired it up this morning and it’s having the same issue. I’m gonna bet once I clean it, it’ll work fine. But greet video dude, very thorough step by step. Kudos.
Thank you so much! I've just finished the repair. I've never done anything like this, it took me few hours but it was worth it. Everything works now :)
2024 repairing my grandson's 360. I also put some leftover Gelid Extreme thermal pads on the ICs. Breaking out a miniature bubble level for the rails. Wish me luck.
I'm so thankful that you and so many other people made videos for this. Watching multiple techniques helped a lot. The hardest part truly is getting the dang case open. It turned out 3 of the back tabs had snapped off making it near impossible to get the back open. After wresting with it for actual hours I finally got it almost there and then just gave it a hard yank and it separated. I hope I never have to open it again :D. Good news is, even with my lack of solder skills, it's not hard to just heat that ball off it pretty much just rolled into my trash can and then I kept applying more heat to make sure it was completely off the contacts and I was nervous after putting it back together (I tested before putting the case back on) but it worked!! Thanks so much!
POV watching in 2024. Did he ever get that go-pro? 😮 Seriously though thanks this is helpful and I think I can handle this. My xbox has a lot of miles and is dusty as hell so this might be what it needs.
Worked on the second try. I cleaned the lens once, and tested the Xbox while the plastic were still all removed. Did not work. Opened the DVD drive again, re swabbed the lens a second time, tested the console and it now works. I cant tell if it will still work in a few months. I don't use the console much anymore. But it's nice knowing that right now, it works! Thanks alot for the tutorial!
Just got x box for 15 quid and it was dirty as hell. Thx to you and a bunch of other vids I've fulfilled my desire to restore an old console and it was so much fun whooooo!
Thanks buddy. After weeks of frustration banging my xbox and loosing connection online during multiplayer when changing maps, I decided to have a quick scout on RUclips. Found your vid and bought a torq no.10 and set to work. Mine was full of dust. Cleaned the rails and laser with some methalated spirits and 're assembled hoovering it on the way. Only problem I encountered was a missing memory flap which I found in the Hoover bag. Thanks again. PROBLEM RESOLVED!
gloooopo any tips for taking off the top of the console to get to the torq screws? I’ve tried using metal picks ad tooth picks and even my fingers to hold the pins up but it just won’t come off. And I’m very scared of breaking this console.
@@joshtm66 it didn't come off as easy for me as it did in the video. Pay attention to the video from 3.:18 onwards. It's all about releasing those clips. It does help if you've got a decent pick. Light also helps. I didn't fully release all the clips but it still came apart with a bit of force. Listen for the click when you push the pick in to hear if it released. Hope this helps buddy.
@@MattShaughnessy6what can I do is there maybe a cable that is not connected because it doesn't want to turn on but it does get power it would help me alot please
For me it was the hard drive came unplugged... a year ago I had the tray won't open and then wouldn't read disc error. Replacement disc drive was $25 on Amazon. I had to swap the old board from the old disc drive to the new drive because of the firmware. Just used a soldering iron to unhook the wires and re soldered them back together. Been working like new ever since. Mine has no covers at all to prevent overheating. It was a free console so I don't care. I too have been an automotive technician for 11 years. Same story as you. I got out of the trade and enlisted in the Army as a combat engineer. I'm happier with it.
For the part with the surgical pick if you don't have one you can just rip it out and break the clips (only if you don't mind breaking it) my Xbox is now a top loader because the disc tray broke and I just pulled the tray out now I place the disk on the motor and put the cowl for the disc drive over it and turn it on
I have my game DVDs loaded onto my HDD so that they don't have to read much, but during initial loading, they have to be able to read the copy protection section of the disk to verify that you really own the game in question. Once this procedure outlined in the video is unable to fix the problem, you'll get the situation where the problem gets worse with time. Initially it might take 10 tries before a disk reads properly, then 100 tries, then 1000 tries, etc. Soon you'll be trying all day long to try to get your favorite game to just read the darned copy protection part of the disk to get the game to load from your HDD. Microsoft or their suppliers designed the drive to fail by wearing out the laser diode with too much current flowing through it obviously for too prolonged a time with too much copy protection reads and such. Like it or not, eventually you have to order a new laser head assembly that is a direct replacement for one of the 4 or so different manufacturers and models of DVD drive. Apparently the make and model can be determined in two different ways, the easiest way is the shape of the DVD drive tray cutout. There are videos that talk about the 4 different kinds. My brother ordered 2 such corresponding manufacture / model head assemblies from China. It took about 2 weeks to deliver in the very inexpensive postal mail. The cost of 2 such units was well under $10 Canadian including shipping. I installed the laser disk read head assembly and it didn't work at all. My brother then recalled that the manufacturer of the laser disk read head assemblies placed a glob of solder over a set of inline three contact wires to prevent damage / aging or whatever of the laser diode. The solder glob must be "extracted" by using a de-soldering procedure typically that uses a standard copper braided solder wick and some soldering paste / flux. The set of inline three contact wires must cleaned of flux because flux conducts electrical current, then the wire contacts be inspected closely with a magnifying glass to insure that no solder remains that connects those wires with one another--just that it secure each wire. Once this is done, the assembly can be installed / put back into place, and the DVD drive reassembled. My foolish brother had the idiot idea of testing the drive with the DVD top lid off, but the unfortunate inserted game test disk is never properly secured and gets roughly mangled by being loose and jumping around. He insisted that a magnetic DVD spindle be removed from a non-working other CD ROM or DVD drive, but none were an exact match and again the poor game disk suffered more abuse. The best way to test the thing's functionality is actually to just reassemble the whole DVD drive and just give it a try. It turned out that it read the game disk completely reliably from the first try. A couple of years later and the repaired DVD laser head assembly is still working fine, reading disks like a champ. When this latest laser begins to fail as usual, I'll still have the second spare brand new unit to install knowing this time to have to remove/extract wick off that glob of solder covering the inline three wire contacts and to test it by assembling everything properly and just trying it out.
I just wanna buy a new drive and i mean unused and put my circuit board in it it cuz that would probably be easier than replacing the laser, motor, or both. Mine reads music cds and if i tap/bang on it just right a game disk or movie, which it just started doing.
@@mickchuknit324 The Xbox 360 is designed to detect "tampering" and likely all of the key parts are firmware encoded as a "matched set" so that no other drive can be used with a given game motherboard and processor, etc. The DVD drive's serial number has to be a match with what the firmware of the motherboard of the console expects otherwise it likely shall just act like a big brick of stone and may not explain the actual troubles of mismatched serial numbers of equipment used. So go ahead if you insist to waste your valuable time and money doing this some other way not already proven to work. The laser head assembly is at such a low level that it cannot have such a serial number for such checking for matching the original equipment that was manufactured as a whole gaming console device. Almost every single major component of these consoles is an integrated solution against software piracy and/or for copy protection so that just using a general purpose computer DVD reader or re-writer is NOT going to work at all. Likely every checkable aspect of the original drive has to be in-place in order for the drive to properly access the copy protected original game disks so that if the replacement "drive" reacts differently to reading such copy protection parts of an original game disk, the machine of the whole console shall refuse to operate normally and so shall refuse to work at all. ruclips.net/video/RyW0lXnoFOA/видео.html "defeating" security on Xbox 360 DVD reader
A fucking life saver. Stuck in this fucking quarantine and my 360 slims disk reader stopped working so I took it apart. I'm gonna clean it tmrw and try to recalibrate it. Thanks man
Ima try doing this today. My console for some reason has issues reading certain games that are still in great condition and always display a screen saying that the disc is dirty. I know this cause some of them read perfectly fine with no issue on my Japanese Xbox 360 console. Hopefully this trick will work
Imagine watching this in 2024 because you want to play Forza Motorsport 4 again and the Xbox Series X can't even play the disc. My old dusted Xbox 360 won't read, so hopefully this video will help
Do you remove the power wire from the electrical socket and then hold the power button to drain the capacitors?? Also is there a way to know if u did it right?(like is there a beep or somthing)
@@AdamSmith-fe9jf yeah I get it. It's the 2 screws by the bars though. It shouldn't be a problem for your system unless they're severely off. Took mine apart today with the bars off level still can read my disc
Harold Pierce Thanks for the info. I noticed the two adjustment screws from another video but wasn’t sure how much of an impact that would have unless of course, like you said, they are severely off-level. Another video mentioned the laser mechanism slides back and forth on the rails and I’m thinking mine may be jammed from accumulated dust. Will have to wait to open it to know for sure.
@@AdamSmith-fe9jf laser reader doesn't need alot of dust on it very sensitive lenses I just had a few specks but the motherboard was dirty and my fan. A can of air should do just fine blowing all dust away
perfect. thank you so much. went out and bought tools and all and it was a success. also you put a big smile on my face when you compared the board to a cityscape, that has what ive always seen them as even as a kid haha
Honestly this isn’t a bad problem on Xbox’s and I don’t know why everyone says they have problems with this I’ve only had this problem one time and got it fixed and haven’t had a problem since honestly the Xbox 360 is a lot better than all these new Xbox’s
Got an 2008 model not too long ago & it’s been only reading certain games so I figure either one or 2 things the laser is either dirty or disc drive needs to be replaced
All my jasper xbox 360s just stoped reading disc. I have four of them I’m having to tap on the consoles in order to make them work. That shows the lens is working I think it’s magnet
Didnt work for mine. When i opened her up i was surprised at the lack of dust, and the inside of the disk drive had barely any. Not sure what the issue with mine is as it play music cds, but not games or dvds unless i smack her just right just right befor the disk is in all the way up untill it loads. Once its loaded it will play whatever game it is indefinitely. It just isnt reading the disk properly at the start or something which keeps it initiating that super fast game disk spin.
I'm in 2020rn. I have the same Xbox, and am having the same problem. It took 3hours to take it apart and put together. But it still doesn't work. H E L P
markisparklez ! I did it about a month or so ago. Nothing helped. I cleaned the lens with rubbing alcohol, oiled the rails, and put a voltmeter on the terminal as I turned the screw to increase voltage to the lens a little bit and the disc still cannot be read. Only thing I didn’t try was re-aligning the rails but I don’t think it would have worked either. These Xboxes are pieces of shit. I literally used mine maybe 5-6 times in 13 years and babied it the whole time and it still broke just sitting there all this time.
@@AdamSmith-fe9jf That's the fucking truth. And the damn Xbox one's are too expensive, and even so they have problems too. It costs an ass load to get it fixed properly too, so fuck that.
no try searching this one matthewdawnell.shaughnessy it has a picture of me and my wife wedding picture with me in a full gladiator armor and her in a roman dress.
Was looking in my old 360 and the little wires where the laser is had I don't know if it was dust or something that was supposed to be on it so left it is it supposed to have anything on it?
When I turn my xbox 360 I get a grinding noise and it says play game and when I try it grinds and it says restart system or clean the disk what can I do to fix this problum?
is it vertical or does it lay flat? if it lays flat, the lazer lens is grinding on the disc and you should probably stop doing that, and if it is vertical, tip it flat and it should stop, because the disc could be out of position in the tray.
@@jovav8 Leaving it vertical puts a lot of strain on the laser lens and motor. Think about gravity and how it is fighting it. Always better to have a disc based console flat and even. That would also apply to any disc based system. Like CD, Blu-Ray etc..
I can’t figure out how to detach the plastic to get to the actual inside. I’m not sure what to do with the surgical pick part cause every time I click it out, it snaps back in place:(
i got a xbox 360 n mines doin the same thing,guess i gotta do this for it to work but i dont for the screws to open it so ill take to sum1 to do it for me🙂good video👍🏼🙂
It's 2023, I barely play games but I suddenly want to play fable 3 and it won't read the disc. I begin to accept my fate but then remember RUclips knows all.
My disc tray was getting stuck so I vacuumed everything out and put mineral oil in the sliding parts of the tray, well I ended up fixing the tray but... now it won't read discs =( so then I taped a piece of toilet paper to a disc and and put it in as a makeshift lens cleaner and it didn't really pick up any dust nor did it work after =( Can you give me any advice?
My Xbox 360 is broken Because I’m trying to play smackdown versus Raw 2007 but doesn’t work and I hear this weird sound It’s like something stuck in there
Can you please to my house and fix my Xbox because my Xbox every time I try to play Star Wars it reads but wen it has ready to play the game it go’s on a blank screen
You sir, deserve a beer. did the exact same steps and I can now play my games! You saved me some good bucks!
Indeed
This is the best REAL fix it advise I've seen. Much better than those videos that instruct you to eject the tray then jam it back in or bang on the case until it decide to work...
Banging it works surprisingly well lol
Funny enough that’s exactly what i did when i was younger now i wanna fix mine fr😂😂😂
In 2020 still cleaning out my 360. Thank you so much bro
Same brother👊
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In 2022 I’m still doing it hahhahaa
2023 making good money buying broken ones and fixing them up. These videos are great refreshers so I don't mess up.
Great video dude you're the first one I've ever seen to actually mention those alignment screws.
Just tried this after the wife wanted to start up the ol 360! Worked great after i did this thanks. You got me alot of husband and dad points.
Username checks out
@@sonofliberty8872 your username also checks out
@@MorkedUP1 Thanks, Pot Poltergeist. I appreciate that.
Found a 360 & about 10 games, in my dumpster at work yesterday morning while taking our trash out. 😂 took it home, fired it up this morning and it’s having the same issue. I’m gonna bet once I clean it, it’ll work fine. But greet video dude, very thorough step by step. Kudos.
Did it work
I finally fixed my game it took me at least 6 or 7 HOURS to take it apart and put it back together think you so much.....
Btw im 12
good job!!!!
It took so long? It took me 1 hour And im 12 too
I'm 9 and I didnt do it *dab*
I'm 17 and I took it apart and put it back in a half and hour and imma girl😎😎
Frisk The Gamer half of what and an hour?
Thank you! This was a pleasantly easy and followable guide to actually fixing my Xbox, and now I don't have to spend any money on fixing it : )
It actually worked THANK YOU SO MUCH! My fiancé and I watched your video step by step and both of our consoles are reading discs now 👏🏻
Thank you so much! I've just finished the repair. I've never done anything like this, it took me few hours but it was worth it. Everything works now :)
POV:your just watching this in 2020
Yeah cause the old xbox 360 i bought has a shitty disc drive
Haha lol I have the E
2021 actually
My original from...2010?? finally has this issue, and it’s 2021
@@JonTron11 yeah
Watching this in July 2023.
Laser was replaced 2019. I'll give this a try since I haven't cleaned the laser in a while.
2024 repairing my grandson's 360. I also put some leftover Gelid Extreme thermal pads on the ICs. Breaking out a miniature bubble level for the rails. Wish me luck.
POV your watching this in 2024😂
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I'm so thankful that you and so many other people made videos for this. Watching multiple techniques helped a lot. The hardest part truly is getting the dang case open. It turned out 3 of the back tabs had snapped off making it near impossible to get the back open. After wresting with it for actual hours I finally got it almost there and then just gave it a hard yank and it separated. I hope I never have to open it again :D. Good news is, even with my lack of solder skills, it's not hard to just heat that ball off it pretty much just rolled into my trash can and then I kept applying more heat to make sure it was completely off the contacts and I was nervous after putting it back together (I tested before putting the case back on) but it worked!! Thanks so much!
POV watching in 2024. Did he ever get that go-pro? 😮
Seriously though thanks this is helpful and I think I can handle this. My xbox has a lot of miles and is dusty as hell so this might be what it needs.
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Worked on the second try. I cleaned the lens once, and tested the Xbox while the plastic were still all removed. Did not work. Opened the DVD drive again, re swabbed the lens a second time, tested the console and it now works. I cant tell if it will still work in a few months. I don't use the console much anymore. But it's nice knowing that right now, it works!
Thanks alot for the tutorial!
Just got x box for 15 quid and it was dirty as hell. Thx to you and a bunch of other vids I've fulfilled my desire to restore an old console and it was so much fun whooooo!
Thanks buddy. After weeks of frustration banging my xbox and loosing connection online during multiplayer when changing maps, I decided to have a quick scout on RUclips. Found your vid and bought a torq no.10 and set to work. Mine was full of dust. Cleaned the rails and laser with some methalated spirits and 're assembled hoovering it on the way. Only problem I encountered was a missing memory flap which I found in the Hoover bag.
Thanks again. PROBLEM RESOLVED!
gloooopo any tips for taking off the top of the console to get to the torq screws? I’ve tried using metal picks ad tooth picks and even my fingers to hold the pins up but it just won’t come off. And I’m very scared of breaking this console.
@@joshtm66 it didn't come off as easy for me as it did in the video. Pay attention to the video from 3.:18 onwards. It's all about releasing those clips. It does help if you've got a decent pick. Light also helps. I didn't fully release all the clips but it still came apart with a bit of force. Listen for the click when you push the pick in to hear if it released.
Hope this helps buddy.
Just fixed my Xbox I thought was gone. Thanks to this video! Legend
Hey Matt, just watched your video to fix my old 360’s Open Tray problem. Worked like a charm. Thank you sir!
Thank you Matt,you are a life saver bro.Mawonga Simelane(South Africa)
Thank you for the kind words. I've been going through some trials and tribulations lately and they brought a smile 😊. Have a good day!
@@MattShaughnessy6what can I do is there maybe a cable that is not connected because it doesn't want to turn on but it does get power it would help me alot please
For me it was the hard drive came unplugged... a year ago I had the tray won't open and then wouldn't read disc error. Replacement disc drive was $25 on Amazon. I had to swap the old board from the old disc drive to the new drive because of the firmware. Just used a soldering iron to unhook the wires and re soldered them back together. Been working like new ever since. Mine has no covers at all to prevent overheating. It was a free console so I don't care. I too have been an automotive technician for 11 years. Same story as you. I got out of the trade and enlisted in the Army as a combat engineer. I'm happier with it.
Hey bro, tutorial is on point. This method worked for my antique machine. Much thanks to you fam! Appreciated
POV:you're watching this in 2023😂😂
Me watching it in 2024😂
@@lonewanderer2797me watching it in june 2024
I'm excited to try this on my Xbox. I haven't been able to use it in years and I was close to just scrapping it.
I did the hitting thing from another vid. It worked for 2 things! My tray often doesn't open, it does now. And the game played. Woo hoo!
the CD lends cleanind disc worked for me! It removed a ball of dust and a piece of string (?) that was stuck some where. thank you!
Good to know you drained all the "compassitors" there ;)
I'm watching this video in 2024😅👍
Excellent video....worked like a champ after all else failed. Easy to follow instructions and clear video view points.
thank you!
ive had to change hardware and heat sinks to repair this.
All but the 6 long screws could have stayed, and saved me a hour of putting it back together
He said that
Thanks man I've been trying to find videos for a while this helped so much
Matt, Thanks for posting this detailed video, it helped out a lot. My xbox360 works better now.
I just did it this morning, my xbox now works perfectly! Thank you for this very useful video
For the part with the surgical pick if you don't have one you can just rip it out and break the clips (only if you don't mind breaking it) my Xbox is now a top loader because the disc tray broke and I just pulled the tray out now I place the disk on the motor and put the cowl for the disc drive over it and turn it on
I have my game DVDs loaded onto my HDD so that they don't have to read much, but during initial loading, they have to be able to read the copy protection section of the disk to verify that you really own the game in question. Once this procedure outlined in the video is unable to fix the problem, you'll get the situation where the problem gets worse with time. Initially it might take 10 tries before a disk reads properly, then 100 tries, then 1000 tries, etc. Soon you'll be trying all day long to try to get your favorite game to just read the darned copy protection part of the disk to get the game to load from your HDD.
Microsoft or their suppliers designed the drive to fail by wearing out the laser diode with too much current flowing through it obviously for too prolonged a time with too much copy protection reads and such.
Like it or not, eventually you have to order a new laser head assembly that is a direct replacement for one of the 4 or so different manufacturers and models of DVD drive. Apparently the make and model can be determined in two different ways, the easiest way is the shape of the DVD drive tray cutout. There are videos that talk about the 4 different kinds.
My brother ordered 2 such corresponding manufacture / model head assemblies from China. It took about 2 weeks to deliver in the very inexpensive postal mail. The cost of 2 such units was well under $10 Canadian including shipping.
I installed the laser disk read head assembly and it didn't work at all.
My brother then recalled that the manufacturer of the laser disk read head assemblies placed a glob of solder over a set of inline three contact wires to prevent damage / aging or whatever of the laser diode.
The solder glob must be "extracted" by using a de-soldering procedure typically that uses a standard copper braided solder wick and some soldering paste / flux. The set of inline three contact wires must cleaned of flux because flux conducts electrical current, then the wire contacts be inspected closely with a magnifying glass to insure that no solder remains that connects those wires with one another--just that it secure each wire. Once this is done, the assembly can be installed / put back into place, and the DVD drive reassembled.
My foolish brother had the idiot idea of testing the drive with the DVD top lid off, but the unfortunate inserted game test disk is never properly secured and gets roughly mangled by being loose and jumping around. He insisted that a magnetic DVD spindle be removed from a non-working other CD ROM or DVD drive, but none were an exact match and again the poor game disk suffered more abuse.
The best way to test the thing's functionality is actually to just reassemble the whole DVD drive and just give it a try. It turned out that it read the game disk completely reliably from the first try.
A couple of years later and the repaired DVD laser head assembly is still working fine, reading disks like a champ. When this latest laser begins to fail as usual, I'll still have the second spare brand new unit to install knowing this time to have to remove/extract wick off that glob of solder covering the inline three wire contacts and to test it by assembling everything properly and just trying it out.
I just wanna buy a new drive and i mean unused and put my circuit board in it it cuz that would probably be easier than replacing the laser, motor, or both. Mine reads music cds and if i tap/bang on it just right a game disk or movie, which it just started doing.
@@mickchuknit324 The Xbox 360 is designed to detect "tampering" and likely all of the key parts are firmware encoded as a "matched set" so that no other drive can be used with a given game motherboard and processor, etc. The DVD drive's serial number has to be a match with what the firmware of the motherboard of the console expects otherwise it likely shall just act like a big brick of stone and may not explain the actual troubles of mismatched serial numbers of equipment used.
So go ahead if you insist to waste your valuable time and money doing this some other way not already proven to work. The laser head assembly is at such a low level that it cannot have such a serial number for such checking for matching the original equipment that was manufactured as a whole gaming console device.
Almost every single major component of these consoles is an integrated solution against software piracy and/or for copy protection so that just using a general purpose computer DVD reader or re-writer is NOT going to work at all. Likely every checkable aspect of the original drive has to be in-place in order for the drive to properly access the copy protected original game disks so that if the replacement "drive" reacts differently to reading such copy protection parts of an original game disk, the machine of the whole console shall refuse to operate normally and so shall refuse to work at all.
ruclips.net/video/RyW0lXnoFOA/видео.html "defeating" security on Xbox 360 DVD reader
A fucking life saver. Stuck in this fucking quarantine and my 360 slims disk reader stopped working so I took it apart. I'm gonna clean it tmrw and try to recalibrate it. Thanks man
Ima try doing this today. My console for some reason has issues reading certain games that are still in great condition and always display a screen saying that the disc is dirty. I know this cause some of them read perfectly fine with no issue on my Japanese Xbox 360 console. Hopefully this trick will work
Did it work
If this doesn’t work you could also change the laser out, cost about $7 on eBay. You do need a solder iron to remove the solder ball on the new laser
Imagine watching this in 2024 because you want to play Forza Motorsport 4 again and the Xbox Series X can't even play the disc. My old dusted Xbox 360 won't read, so hopefully this video will help
Thank you for showing me how to do this. I can see that your good at this
Thanks man got it fixed 2021
Watching from saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
how cool! glad you got it fixed all the way in Saudi Arabia!
Do you remove the power wire from the electrical socket and then hold the power button to drain the capacitors?? Also is there a way to know if u did it right?(like is there a beep or somthing)
Genius thanks man much appreciated for the video I bet you saved tons of people money good looks bro keep the videos coming man I subscribe
POV: your watching this in 2025
Vid dint explain about adjusting railing tracks
You skipped the part where you show us how to calibrate it
He explained it though
Harold Pierce Not the same thing. I can explain lots of things but showing and doing it is another.
@@AdamSmith-fe9jf yeah I get it. It's the 2 screws by the bars though. It shouldn't be a problem for your system unless they're severely off. Took mine apart today with the bars off level still can read my disc
Harold Pierce Thanks for the info. I noticed the two adjustment screws from another video but wasn’t sure how much of an impact that would have unless of course, like you said, they are severely off-level. Another video mentioned the laser mechanism slides back and forth on the rails and I’m thinking mine may be jammed from accumulated dust. Will have to wait to open it to know for sure.
@@AdamSmith-fe9jf laser reader doesn't need alot of dust on it very sensitive lenses I just had a few specks but the motherboard was dirty and my fan. A can of air should do just fine blowing all dust away
thank you man it worked, now i can play Halo 3 before the servers go down!
Thank you very informative I can now play New Vegas again 😁
Bro same
It didn't work, I think my Xbox is just broken :(
What is the brand of cleaner you used?
Helpful video I just find it funny how frequently he brags about being an automotive technitian lol. But yeah good video helped me fix my isue
Thank you so much Hank Schrader
Hey bro thanks just did it and it works perfectly
Also try clear cache in settings on storage settings press y
Just now watching this in 2024 where do I get the tools from need to clean my son xbox360
I took mine apart and I noticed a spring looking part that was broken off a little. don't know how to get that piece back on.
perfect. thank you so much. went out and bought tools and all and it was a success.
also you put a big smile on my face when you compared the board to a cityscape, that has what ive always seen them as even as a kid haha
Honestly this isn’t a bad problem on Xbox’s and I don’t know why everyone says they have problems with this I’ve only had this problem one time and got it fixed and haven’t had a problem since honestly the Xbox 360 is a lot better than all these new Xbox’s
Got an 2008 model not too long ago & it’s been only reading certain games so I figure either one or 2 things the laser is either dirty or disc drive needs to be replaced
the xbox360 work it says open disc every time
Before you go to all this effort. Take a vacuum and crank it on the open disc drive. Whenever my discs don’t read this fixes it
hmmm im going to try this and im going to come back and lyk lol
Funny enough I still see open tray instead of the game disc sometimes so this weekend I am going to crack my system open...
Well it didn’t work lol
But I think I found the problem why it’s not working for mine tho lol
Wow thank you so much!! Im know playing call of duty! :))
HughTuberGaming “.now”
Very well explained tutorial vid two thumbs up.
thank you!
It releases the bottom cover. The top cover is held by 6 screws inside
Thanks a lot I have had this problem for weeks now I even bought a new hard drive but I didnt need it I did what you said and it worked
This is great, now to go for it. thanks big time
is it the adjustment screws whats the problem when the xbox scratches a ring on the disks to become unreadeble?
All my jasper xbox 360s just stoped reading disc. I have four of them I’m having to tap on the consoles in order to make them work. That shows the lens is working I think it’s magnet
It worked! thanks a lot! you helped make my kid happy
Didnt work for mine. When i opened her up i was surprised at the lack of dust, and the inside of the disk drive had barely any. Not sure what the issue with mine is as it play music cds, but not games or dvds unless i smack her just right just right befor the disk is in all the way up untill it loads. Once its loaded it will play whatever game it is indefinitely. It just isnt reading the disk properly at the start or something which keeps it initiating that super fast game disk spin.
Should I follow this guide if I have an s model?
Thank you so much! I'll let you know how it goes 🙂
How did it go?
POV your watching this in 2024 😎
Same😂
Mine dose this. One time the xbox fell a short distance and scratched a disc. I think the lens eye got scratched or something. Maybe ill try this
Dank je voor deze filmpje, wij hebben ook de XBOX360 SLIM .... Groet Henk, uit Holland
I'm in 2020rn. I have the same Xbox, and am having the same problem. It took 3hours to take it apart and put together. But it still doesn't work.
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Try oiling the drive rails
it should not have taken 3hours to take it apart xdddddddddddddd
Me too! Did you ever fix it??
markisparklez ! I did it about a month or so ago. Nothing helped. I cleaned the lens with rubbing alcohol, oiled the rails, and put a voltmeter on the terminal as I turned the screw to increase voltage to the lens a little bit and the disc still cannot be read. Only thing I didn’t try was re-aligning the rails but I don’t think it would have worked either. These Xboxes are pieces of shit. I literally used mine maybe 5-6 times in 13 years and babied it the whole time and it still broke just sitting there all this time.
@@AdamSmith-fe9jf That's the fucking truth. And the damn Xbox one's are too expensive, and even so they have problems too.
It costs an ass load to get it fixed properly too, so fuck that.
I'm here in 2020, trying to fix my 360 from 2006
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You seem like a funny and smart guy I mean that Olny in a good way
Nick Corello well thank ya
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Was looking in my old 360 and the little wires where the laser is had I don't know if it was dust or something that was supposed to be on it so left it is it supposed to have anything on it?
Just use a qtip and a flash light to manually clean it if you do not have the tools like in this video
Thank you so much it helped me so much I messed with it forever but after this video I tried that and it worked first try
Sir does it work if my xbox says play dvd insted of play game ?? Please answer 😢😢
It might!
I was going to get rid of my 360 and just lose the games but is Gide was Great
Why my xbox 360 when i put my cd games instead of play game ,play dvd .what is the problem sir
When I turn my xbox 360 I get a grinding noise and it says play game and when I try it grinds and it says restart system or clean the disk what can I do to fix this problum?
My. Xbox. 36o. Is. Not.
is it vertical or does it lay flat? if it lays flat, the lazer lens is grinding on the disc and you should probably stop doing that, and if it is vertical, tip it flat and it should stop, because the disc could be out of position in the tray.
@@fall-of-rome is that why it doesn't read my disc? Cuz I left it verticle for sometime.
@@jovav8 Leaving it vertical puts a lot of strain on the laser lens and motor. Think about gravity and how it is fighting it. Always better to have a disc based console flat and even. That would also apply to any disc based system. Like CD, Blu-Ray etc..
i’m just trynna play some ncaa 14
So what would you do if your system plays movies but not games
try the disc cleaner; it worked for me! cd's and DVD's would play but not games but after 10 minutes of cleaning, all working again :)
I have to open and close the tray maybe ten times and then it reads the disc. I did this and it didn't help.
Every time I try to put my disk in it says disk not reading but this finally worked
Haha we get ur life story before the video actually starts haha
I can’t figure out how to detach the plastic to get to the actual inside. I’m not sure what to do with the surgical pick part cause every time I click it out, it snaps back in place:(
i got a xbox 360 n mines doin the same thing,guess i gotta do this for it to work but i dont for the screws to open it so ill take to sum1 to do it for me🙂good video👍🏼🙂
I know this is a old video, everytime I load a game I'll be in game then it just stops and proceeds to scratch the hell out of my disc...
did u fix that problem and if u did can u tell me how
It's 2023, I barely play games but I suddenly want to play fable 3 and it won't read the disc. I begin to accept my fate but then remember RUclips knows all.
This actually fixed my xbox thanks
My disc tray was getting stuck so I vacuumed everything out and put mineral oil in the sliding parts of the tray, well I ended up fixing the tray but... now it won't read discs =( so then I taped a piece of toilet paper to a disc and and put it in as a makeshift lens cleaner and it didn't really pick up any dust nor did it work after =( Can you give me any advice?
My Xbox 360 is broken Because I’m trying to play smackdown versus Raw 2007 but doesn’t work and I hear this weird sound It’s like something stuck in there
Can you please to my house and fix my Xbox because my Xbox every time I try to play Star Wars it reads but wen it has ready to play the game it go’s on a blank screen