Messed up drive??

[ohnoacucumber]

My friend contacted me with a problem saying that his drive wont read discs anymore. It just says "Play DVD" It will eject and everything works. He has a samsung drive. Is it possible to buy a new drive and switch the board in them? Any other ideas? thanks.

[HaGGardSmurf]

Its not the board, its the laser.

You can try cleaning it, or pot tweaking. If you pot tweak you need to be very careful, and if you do it, usually your laser will die again.

Best thing to do is swap it with another drive, or just buy a new laser.

(It may be the board if he tried to flash it and it went bad)

[ohnoacucumber]

OK its never been flashed or attempted to be. So i just search samsung on the internet buy another drive and then replace the board?

[louisM92]

dont get a samsung to replace it, get another brand, i would go for benq, they are more reliable, have a look on ebay for one, search for "xbox 360 benq drive"

[ohnoacucumber]

well can u just switch the the board out of the samsung and put it in the benq? I really don't wanna have to flash it.

[louisM92]

well no because they are two completely different drives lol if you dont wanna flash then get a new laser.

[HaGGardSmurf]

Yea, buy a laser if you dont want to flash. Then just remove he laser, and put your new one in.

[ohnoacucumber]

Well I was gonna switch the whole drives out and then swap the the boards out, any good sites you all know to get new drives? If not im going to ebay! Thanks.

[HaGGardSmurf]

Yea, I guess that works too.

eBay is your best bet. All modding websites try to make too large of a profit, and sell them for like 3x the value.