Some time ago, my XBox would not eject the DVD. I turned if off for a few days, went back and turned on the machine and the game booted fine, then ejected fine. Xbox worked okay for a few weeks. Then the slow decline. Over time, my Xbox actually working has worsened to where it will now only occasionally work. It is a newer version of xbox but out of warranty, especially now that I have taken it appart.
When it is not working, I get a blank,black screen and not a peep of audio (video source still in tact though because no blinking yellow I've tested this). No error messages, no dirty disk, nothing. Just a blank black screen. When it does occasionally work, I get the electrifying intro and the audio intro. Whoo hooo... oh the glee. Now the question of what the heck is going on.
It will never eject a DVD. The eject light just blinks and blinks and I hear the media spin back up. When I manually eject the disk, manually pull open the tray, pull the lid off off the drive, tinker with the position of the laser, power up the xbox, let the drive door automatically shut, the machine boots up to the intro only about 2% of the time. When this happens I get a little excited. About 50% of this 2% the eject button will actually give me the tray back where I can load the game. About 50% of this 50% of 2% of the time, the game boots and plays all day and night and day and night. I jump for joy at this point. Hee Haw... calling in sick to work and taking vacation days. I'm afraid to turn it off because, you see, the success rate thing starts over again and gets worse once I stop playing. Is this simply my DVD drive? When I power up the machine I usually get nothing.... blank black silent darkness. Unless of course the planets are in alignment and it decides to work the once every so often. Does the POST checking of this machine stop the bios from booting if something is erroring out with the DVD drive at start up? Does anyone know about this? The DVD Drive is a Samsung SDG-605. I have a new one on order even though I don't know if this will fix it.
Thanks
When it is not working, I get a blank,black screen and not a peep of audio (video source still in tact though because no blinking yellow I've tested this). No error messages, no dirty disk, nothing. Just a blank black screen. When it does occasionally work, I get the electrifying intro and the audio intro. Whoo hooo... oh the glee. Now the question of what the heck is going on.
It will never eject a DVD. The eject light just blinks and blinks and I hear the media spin back up. When I manually eject the disk, manually pull open the tray, pull the lid off off the drive, tinker with the position of the laser, power up the xbox, let the drive door automatically shut, the machine boots up to the intro only about 2% of the time. When this happens I get a little excited. About 50% of this 2% the eject button will actually give me the tray back where I can load the game. About 50% of this 50% of 2% of the time, the game boots and plays all day and night and day and night. I jump for joy at this point. Hee Haw... calling in sick to work and taking vacation days. I'm afraid to turn it off because, you see, the success rate thing starts over again and gets worse once I stop playing. Is this simply my DVD drive? When I power up the machine I usually get nothing.... blank black silent darkness. Unless of course the planets are in alignment and it decides to work the once every so often. Does the POST checking of this machine stop the bios from booting if something is erroring out with the DVD drive at start up? Does anyone know about this? The DVD Drive is a Samsung SDG-605. I have a new one on order even though I don't know if this will fix it.
Thanks
