Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
November 21, 2009, 10:00:57 PM *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News:

 
   Home   Help Arcade Search Login Register  

 
Main Woodworking Reviews Software Monitor/Video
Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Project Announcements Artwork Consoles Buy/Sell/Trade
Arcade Miscellaneous Everything Else Politics n Religion Forum Discussion Wiki Discussion
DOS/WinCab PowerMAME SK Jukebox UncleTs Jukebox Project Arcade
Linux Restorations Pinball MaLa Frontend  
 
Recent posts | Arcade | Rules | Old Boards | Old Archives | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS


Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum > Main > Consoles > Replacement XBOX DVD Drive
Pages: [1]   Go Down
« previous next »
  Send this topic  |  Print  
Author Topic: Replacement XBOX DVD Drive  (Read 247 times)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
HarumaN
Supreme Solder King
Trade Count: (+22)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 4255


... think about it ...


View Profile WWW
« on: October 30, 2009, 09:07:46 PM »
Anyone know of a good source for these?

(Original Xbox, not 360, unmodded)
Logged

Controller Hack Thread
DJ_Izumi
Trade Count: (0)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 488


View Profile
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2009, 10:23:57 PM »
Another dead Xbox? Cheesy
Logged
Kevin Mullins
Trade Count: (+2)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 3814



View Profile WWW
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2009, 11:39:17 PM »
It's not finding a new drive that will be hard, it's getting it to work in your box that will be.

(MS EEPROM.bin and all that jive)
« Last Edit: October 31, 2009, 12:27:50 AM by Kevin Mullins » Logged
Not a technician . . . . just a DIY'er.
J_K_M_A_N
Trade Count: (0)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 595



View Profile
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2009, 11:58:24 PM »
Quote from: Kevin Mullins on October 30, 2009, 11:39:17 PM
It's not finding a new drive that will be hard, it's getting it to work in your box that will be.

(MS EEPROM.bin and all that jive)

I don't believe the DVD drive is any problem. The hard drive on the other hand....

J_K_M_A_N
Logged
DJ_Izumi
Trade Count: (0)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 488


View Profile
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2009, 12:10:27 AM »
Yeah the DVD drives are totally interchangable, no problem.  Only HDD's have keys matched to the EEPROM, though you can lock a new HDD with a matching key.

BUt yeah, I've done it, you can swap any Xbox DVD drive into any other Xbox without issue.
Logged
Kevin Mullins
Trade Count: (+2)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 3814



View Profile WWW
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2009, 12:32:31 AM »
Quote from: DJ_Izumi on October 31, 2009, 12:10:27 AM
Only HDD's have keys matched to the EEPROM, though you can lock a new HDD with a matching key.

Duh..... I had HDD on my mind.
The DVD drives are totally interchangeable, but do have those funky connectors though.
So yeah, another dead box, or ordering one.
A standard drive can be made to work, but not such a pretty install.

Or possibly tear into the drive and clean the laser assembly, that cures a lot of non-reading drives. (unless it's just dead dead)
Logged
Not a technician . . . . just a DIY'er.
pinballjim
The vast majority of blanket statements are false.
Trade Count: (+3)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 4745


Nicest opioniated a-hole you'll ever meet.


View Profile
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2009, 09:36:03 AM »
Xbox I just did was fixed up quick by wiping off the lens on the DVD drive.

Hard drive was another story... I tossed it in the freezer awhile and then fired it up with frozen packet of crab meat on it.  Got enough life out of it to copy over the save file and do the TSOP flash.  Once you've done that, it's unneeded...
Logged
Burn my hair, I like that action, make me look like Michael Jackson
HarumaN
Supreme Solder King
Trade Count: (+22)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 4255


... think about it ...


View Profile WWW
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2009, 10:07:48 AM »
I cleaned the lens and the magic mirror... no dice...

I tried the pot adjustments...  still no dice...  most of the time I get the error "Can't recognize this disc"...

Maybe 1 out of 5 times I can play a minute of a game, then it locks up.
Logged

Controller Hack Thread
ark_ader
Trade Count: (0)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 1271


Fear is for the weak


View Profile
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2009, 03:51:40 PM »
Mine is totally seized up and you have to open up the xbox, and open up the DVD just to get the disc!!!  Lol so I'm in the same boat - where is a good place to get a new DVD drive instead of a spares/repairs on ebay?
Logged
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.


Me transmitte sursum, caledoni!
testicle187
Trade Count: (+7)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 399

I want to build my own arcade controls!


View Profile
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2009, 11:26:35 PM »
Quote from: ark_ader on October 31, 2009, 03:51:40 PM
Mine is totally seized up and you have to open up the xbox, and open up the DVD just to get the disc!!!  Lol so I'm in the same boat - where is a good place to get a new DVD drive instead of a spares/repairs on ebay?

If that is a Samsung drive you can normally Tap the top of the Xbox (or drive) firmly as you press the eject button.  This will let the disc come the rest of the way out.  I have had 4 or 5 that had trouble opening the drive and this always worked for me.
Logged
Ginsu Victim
Trade Count: (+5)
Full Member
***
Online Online

Posts: 6287


Comanche, OK -- USA


View Profile
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2009, 10:21:11 AM »
Check the Llamma
Logged
Visit the NEW, IMPROVED EMDKAY!

Marquees! Control Panel Overlays!
Bartops (kits or complete models!) New products now available!
New backlight materials! Check out the new TWO PLAYER BARTOP KIT and PORTABLE MINI!
J_K_M_A_N
Trade Count: (0)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Posts: 595



View Profile
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2009, 11:10:12 AM »
Only problem with that is that they are $50. You could buy 2 or 3 xboxs at a pawn shop for that and take your chances. Personally, I don't even use my DVD drive but I don't play games on it so...

J_K_M_A_N
Logged
Ginsu Victim
Trade Count: (+5)
Full Member
***
Online Online

Posts: 6287


Comanche, OK -- USA


View Profile
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2009, 11:13:08 AM »
But at the pawn shop you won't get a new Samsung drive.
Logged
Visit the NEW, IMPROVED EMDKAY!

Marquees! Control Panel Overlays!
Bartops (kits or complete models!) New products now available!
New backlight materials! Check out the new TWO PLAYER BARTOP KIT and PORTABLE MINI!
Pages: [1]   Go Up
  Send this topic  |  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.10 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines LLC | Sitemap Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!
Page created in 0.177 seconds with 26 queries.