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Ok, I want to discuss a topic today, that is close to all our hearts - XBOX Maintenance :D
Early last year, my PS2 did the unthinkable and died at the tender young age of less than 2 years old. By 'died' I mean it stopped playing some of my DVDs, then all of my DVDs, then some of my games, and yes, finally pretty much all of my games. I didn't take it to bits as I'm not known for my patience and I envisaged a screwdriver being jammed in certain circuit boards if I couldn't fix it. It resides in my wardrobe, and will be fixed when I can be arshed.
So here I am, nearly a year later, with my 'new' XBOX, which I bought straight after the PS2 died, and what starts to happen? It starts to fail playing my DVDs.
I got my Back to the Future Trilogy this morning, so watched the second and third films, back to back. They worked fine, except there was a tiny forgivable 1 second glitch during both of them. So I stuck in one of those poxy lens cleaner things, just to see if it'd work. Anyhoo, I then stick in Back to the Future 1 to watch the out-takes, which works fine. I stick in BTTF2 to watch the out-takes from that, and it just sits there, and sits there. I stick in BTTF3, and it just sits there, and sits there. The discs are flawless, and I know they work fine as I watched them earlier. So I stick BTTF1 back in, and it just sits there.
What the hell? I really am losing all patience with consoles. I realise it may just be dirt on the lens, but short of taking it to pieces I can think of no other way to sort it out. So that's the point of this thread - do any of you know any techniques to clean the damn things, WITHOUT reducing it to its component parts first? Or have you had a similar experience with your XBOX and know what it is (e.g. overheating etc). I mentioned overheating, as I switched it off for 20mins, then back on again, and BTTF2 worked fine. After watching the out-takes, I reset the machine, and again it wouldn't read the disc.
How frikking infuriating. There are a few guides to taking the things to bits and cleaning them, but if I'm reduced to that after less than a year then I'm afraid that is nothing short of pathetic. Views?
Early last year, my PS2 did the unthinkable and died at the tender young age of less than 2 years old. By 'died' I mean it stopped playing some of my DVDs, then all of my DVDs, then some of my games, and yes, finally pretty much all of my games. I didn't take it to bits as I'm not known for my patience and I envisaged a screwdriver being jammed in certain circuit boards if I couldn't fix it. It resides in my wardrobe, and will be fixed when I can be arshed.
So here I am, nearly a year later, with my 'new' XBOX, which I bought straight after the PS2 died, and what starts to happen? It starts to fail playing my DVDs.
I got my Back to the Future Trilogy this morning, so watched the second and third films, back to back. They worked fine, except there was a tiny forgivable 1 second glitch during both of them. So I stuck in one of those poxy lens cleaner things, just to see if it'd work. Anyhoo, I then stick in Back to the Future 1 to watch the out-takes, which works fine. I stick in BTTF2 to watch the out-takes from that, and it just sits there, and sits there. I stick in BTTF3, and it just sits there, and sits there. The discs are flawless, and I know they work fine as I watched them earlier. So I stick BTTF1 back in, and it just sits there.
What the hell? I really am losing all patience with consoles. I realise it may just be dirt on the lens, but short of taking it to pieces I can think of no other way to sort it out. So that's the point of this thread - do any of you know any techniques to clean the damn things, WITHOUT reducing it to its component parts first? Or have you had a similar experience with your XBOX and know what it is (e.g. overheating etc). I mentioned overheating, as I switched it off for 20mins, then back on again, and BTTF2 worked fine. After watching the out-takes, I reset the machine, and again it wouldn't read the disc.
How frikking infuriating. There are a few guides to taking the things to bits and cleaning them, but if I'm reduced to that after less than a year then I'm afraid that is nothing short of pathetic. Views?
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Yes, happens to me rather often, but not enough to really get me mad.
But enough to p*ss me off.
It goes 'whiiirrrr.....click' the whole time. Usually starts right back up again after 1/2 seconds, but others it gets stuck in a rut, and either goes back to the dashboard or to the game title screen.
But enough to p*ss me off.
It goes 'whiiirrrr.....click' the whole time. Usually starts right back up again after 1/2 seconds, but others it gets stuck in a rut, and either goes back to the dashboard or to the game title screen.
I had to send my xbox away last year and was well pleased with the service I got. Just recently my xbox has started to get stuck when loading things when in the middle of a game, It sounds like its having trouble reading the info from the disk/hard drive. Has this happend to anyone else?
I'm starting to think...
Do X-box's break more often than PS2's? *shock horror*
Maybe a GC without a DVD drive is better. DVD drives seem to muck up a lot...
Do X-box's break more often than PS2's? *shock horror*
Maybe a GC without a DVD drive is better. DVD drives seem to muck up a lot...
well, my xbox is in a box waiting for the good people at UPS to whisk it off to the techies at the xbox repair depot. the geezer on the phone seemed very sympathetic when I told him I'd only just got it back, I didn't even have to raise my voice once.
I'll be satisfied if I get it back with all the data intact.
As the xbox will play some DVDs but not others, my fear is that the geeks there will only test it with a few DVDs, which work fine - leading them to assume I'm talking crap and send it back unaltered. If this happens I'll be opening a can of whoopass I can assure you. i had such problems with Time (winces at name) computers, when I had the thing sent back 4 (YES FOUR) times without them having even touched it.
I'll be satisfied if I get it back with all the data intact.
As the xbox will play some DVDs but not others, my fear is that the geeks there will only test it with a few DVDs, which work fine - leading them to assume I'm talking crap and send it back unaltered. If this happens I'll be opening a can of whoopass I can assure you. i had such problems with Time (winces at name) computers, when I had the thing sent back 4 (YES FOUR) times without them having even touched it.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> In the same way that measles is nice?
yeah, I'm just trying fool myself. And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids ...
> In the same way that measles is nice?
yeah, I'm just trying fool myself. And I'd have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids ...
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> Notorious Biggles wrote:
> They'll probably send you back a different Xbox, with a hidden
> camera
> just to see your face when you turn it on and don't see any of your
> save games. At least that is what I would be tempted to do if I
> worked for them.
>
> heh heh, you evil, evil person ... :D
>
> I better had get it all back, although in a way it'd be nice to start
> all my games from scratch.
In the same way that measles is nice?
> Notorious Biggles wrote:
> They'll probably send you back a different Xbox, with a hidden
> camera
> just to see your face when you turn it on and don't see any of your
> save games. At least that is what I would be tempted to do if I
> worked for them.
>
> heh heh, you evil, evil person ... :D
>
> I better had get it all back, although in a way it'd be nice to start
> all my games from scratch.
In the same way that measles is nice?
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> They'll probably send you back a different Xbox, with a hidden camera
> just to see your face when you turn it on and don't see any of your
> save games. At least that is what I would be tempted to do if I
> worked for them.
heh heh, you evil, evil person ... :D
I better had get it all back, although in a way it'd be nice to start all my games from scratch.
> They'll probably send you back a different Xbox, with a hidden camera
> just to see your face when you turn it on and don't see any of your
> save games. At least that is what I would be tempted to do if I
> worked for them.
heh heh, you evil, evil person ... :D
I better had get it all back, although in a way it'd be nice to start all my games from scratch.
They'll probably send you back a different Xbox, with a hidden camera just to see your face when you turn it on and don't see any of your save games. At least that is what I would be tempted to do if I worked for them.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Ask them for a courtesy console.
I'll ask him for his spleen if I don't get it sorted post haste!
My games work, so I was playing through the kudos championship on gold yesterday. If it all gets wiped there will be trouble.
> Ask them for a courtesy console.
I'll ask him for his spleen if I don't get it sorted post haste!
My games work, so I was playing through the kudos championship on gold yesterday. If it all gets wiped there will be trouble.
Ask them for a courtesy console.
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