Oh Dear! My xbox 360! (open tray error!)

[CorsePerVita]

alright. i figure this is a good of a place as any to post this...

- randomly 30 seconds into gameplay or 2 hours into gameplay the xbox will restart itself and then go back to the main screen with the infamous "open tray".

- the open tray is inconsistent, can do it at any time. does not overheat. could be cold and within a minute of turning on the xbox

- has a toshiba drive in it, not like the other drives i see online

- have disassembled and cleaned out the xbox, cleaned the drive and the reader lense on the drive. NO effect.

- I have cussed at it, this only seemed to anger the xbox.

- threatened to kill all of it's family and pee on the xbox. this seemed to not affect it, and the open tray errors have continued.

Ideas? It is out of warranty. So it's about as much as a new xbox to fix it. Although if I can fix it and keep it... I'd be far happier. The new patch came out the other day and it updated, this also did not affect it. Now it just reboots in style.:down:

Perhaps the 360 was made by the same people that designed C&C 4. Wait.. no... microsoft doesn't promise greatness and then disappoint, they just make products shiny and you expect them to disappoint...

[Lothair]

Perhaps the drive itself is broken? Maybe replace it? Might be worth a shot, anyways.

[CorsePerVita]

Is it true that they are paired though, I heard that I have to do some weird pairing thing if I do that?

[Lothair]

Is this the correct drive?

http://www.amazon.com/Ts-h943-Dvd-rom-Drive-Xbox-360/dp/B001CP5WXC

Try looking through the comments for further information. It seems that there might be more steps to installing one of these things than just simply connecting it.

From what I've read, I'm not entirely sure about the pairing. But, I'd probably lean towards it being true, which is why I linked a toshiba xbox 360 drive above.

Hope that helps. I don't know much in this area of electronics, unfortunately.

[billygoat333]

They ARE paired... I dont remember how you pair them though. It is fairly simple and there are youtube videos out there describing how to do it. I remember when my ex brother in law fixed his drive he just watched a video and got it working. :)

[CorsePerVita]

i got another xbox that suffered from the red ring of death. i am going to attempt to fix the RROD first, and if that does not work, I shall attempt to pair the drive with my xbox.

[CorsePerVita]

3 rings... btw

[CorsePerVita]

I see a mod changed my thread title, apologies for the intrusive language. I will more carefully so the mods don't have to waste their time editing my stuff. wasn't sure if it was okay or not, so my apologies if I offended anyone.

[CorsePerVita]

Well guys I attempted to swap drives and my xbox puked and didn't like it.

However... the other xbox that I got was plugged full of dust! I cleaned it out with an air compressor and just thoroughly went through it and cleaned it. Put it back together and been playing it for HOURS and no issues.

So basically I got a 3 ring rrod xbox for $40 and cleaned with with compressed air.... good as new. Go me. Feels SO good to have it back.

[billygoat333]

sweet... glad you got it back working. have a no-video xbox 360 that I have been meaning to clean up and re thermal paste... just waiting for the right time to do it. (no kid that is. lol :P)

[NightrainSrt4]

Don't get rid of the bad drive. You need it.

If the circuit board on the original drive wasn't what was dead, you can swap that circuit board into the new drive and everything will work as normal.

Otherwise, you have to extract the key from the original drive and flash the firmware of the new drive with the old key. The key matches a key that is stored on the xbox itself. If the key on the drive does not match it, you will only be able to play dvd's and xbox live games. When you try and pop in a real 360 disk, it will throw an error, like what you probably already experienced.

Info on how to do that can be found in the usual places. Not going to link to scene sites because as much good they can be for legit uses, there is also information for other uses, and we don't need that here.

If you've already tossed the old drive, then the only thing you can do is nand dump / jtag the xbox and extract the cpu key. But you need to have a dashboard of 7371 or less. Then you can convert the cpu key into the dvd key and flash the new drive with it. Take off the jtag / go back to original nand / take off nand extractor. Then you'd be good to go.

Some punk kids sold me a 360 they said just the dvd drive was broken. Figured an easy fix, until I got it back and realized they flashed the dvd without the key. Luckily it was dash 7371, and I could get at the dvd key the hard way. Turns out the console was already banned from live anyway. Shrug, least it was only $20. Plays games offline great though. *knock on wood*

[CorsePerVita]

Don't get rid of the bad drive. You need it.

If the circuit board on the original drive wasn't what was dead, you can swap that circuit board into the new drive and everything will work as normal.

Otherwise, you have to extract the key from the original drive and flash the firmware of the new drive with the old key. The key matches a key that is stored on the xbox itself. If the key on the drive does not match it, you will only be able to play dvd's and xbox live games. When you try and pop in a real 360 disk, it will throw an error, like what you probably already experienced.

Info on how to do that can be found in the usual places. Not going to link to scene sites because as much good they can be for legit uses, there is also information for other uses, and we don't need that here.

If you've already tossed the old drive, then the only thing you can do is nand dump / jtag the xbox and extract the cpu key. But you need to have a dashboard of 7371 or less. Then you can convert the cpu key into the dvd key and flash the new drive with it. Take off the jtag / go back to original nand / take off nand extractor. Then you'd be good to go.

Some punk kids sold me a 360 they said just the dvd drive was broken. Figured an easy fix, until I got it back and realized they flashed the dvd without the key. Luckily it was dash 7371, and I could get at the dvd key the hard way. Turns out the console was already banned from live anyway. Shrug, least it was only $20. Plays games offline great though. *knock on wood*

i did not get rid of the other xbox. i have no idea how to extract keys and flash the firmware, never done that on a 360.

[blaze15301]

hey if your looking for a new 360 ill let mine go cheap like 60 bucks. it wokrs and everything you just odnt get the hd or a face plate and its painted black and green. pm me if your interested

[CorsePerVita]

I forgot to update this thread. I bought a used xbox that had a RROD issue and managed to repair that. As to the old xbox...

Let's just say I had a little fun with some electronics that had given me grief.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/40241_420314716743_723296743_5396928_1830703_n.jpg

lol @ my cat in the picture....
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/132397_481691536743_723296743_6537788_2905299_o.jp g

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/koihoshi/40200_420394931743_723296743_5398686_7227778_n.jpg