>want to play halo 2 and baldurs gate dark alliance with my brother>pull out og xbox>wont power on>waste several hours trying to get it to work>decide to buy xbox for $40 off of fb marketplace, dude sends me a video of it playing a game>take it home>powers on but gives error message that it can't read any of my discswhat do? At this point I'm just thinking about buying one on ebay that already has those cheeky capacitors removed or I might just try to low ball someone on fb marketplace and pray that this one works
Uhm just use a 360 instead sweetie
>>11113023Is the disc spinning? Sometimes the drives seize up but giving the top of the console a tap can get it working again.
>>11113023Maybe it's the discs
>>11113023This might sound crazy but try putting a burned disc in it and playing it.
>>11113034It doesn't sound like it's spinning, it will make a faint click sound once or twice but that's about it>>11113041I tried like 12 different games... it's not my discs lol
>>11113023I mean the games are on PC as well if it keeps giving you that much trouble
>>11113049I don't want to play them on PC. I also have more games that I'd like to play but this situation is what pushed me over the edge to finally dust off the xbox
>>11113023take the optical drive out of your broken xbox and put it in the new one you got. Or mod it and play games off a hard drive. optical drives are usually the first thing to fail on old disc reading consoles unless they had some major failure like the capacitor issue with xbox. if its like ps2 swapping optical drive is easy and no soldering needed
>>11114217This works just fine. Have a torx 20 bit handy.
