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Tue 11/11/03 at 21:45
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Has anyone had that problem?
Every time i put a DVD in, it comes up with this message, i know for certain that it isn't the disk, as I keep them in great condition, any advice would be apppreciated.
Mon 17/11/03 at 18:29
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K, thanks.
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Sun 16/11/03 at 12:46
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Sun 16/11/03 at 12:45
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This has happened to me as well, so I took my Xbox to my local electronics store and they opened it up, and found dust and dirt on the lens that reads the disks.
(A word of warning - The guy in my electronics shop said that you lose your guarantee if you open it up.)
Sun 16/11/03 at 12:45
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This has happened to me as well, so I took my Xbox to my local electroonicts store and they opened it up, and found dust and dirt on the lens that reads the disks.
(A word of warning - The guy in my electronics shop said that you lose your guarantee if you open it up.)
Sat 15/11/03 at 21:44
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The Josh wrote:

> That sounds all well and good, but wouldn't you loose all the data in
> the hardrive?

I could put it on a memory card, in small doses, and put my data on a friends xbox. But'll take ages...
Sat 15/11/03 at 21:42
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Black Glove wrote:
> This used to happen all the time with my first Xbox. I eventually
> realized it was faulty as more and more games kept failing to load
> and the soundtracks kept skipping.
>
> If it's still under a 12 month warranty I'd take it back and get a
> fresh one.
>
> I'm not saying that it is faulty, it's just that mine had the same
> problem and it turned out to be faulty.

I might do get a new one. However, it's second hand, so I won't get any warranty.

A similar problem happened with my PS2. I got a new one.

Cheers GAME!
Sat 15/11/03 at 21:39
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HálloHowArtThou wrote:
> Eat the disc.
>
> Or get a new one.
>
> Or buy an XBox.
>
> Or Eat your XBox.
>
> (Ignore me)

Agreed.
Wed 12/11/03 at 17:44
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Still under gauruntee? It's a week old.
Wed 12/11/03 at 16:14
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I would think so, as long as it's still under guarantee. I would only worry about it though if it starts doing it all the time with every disc. My new Xbox does it every now and then.
Wed 12/11/03 at 16:07
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Can i do this with SR if it keeps happening to me? It's only happend on Halo so far though.

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