Hello, folks. Like many console modders on the 'net, I've read your site many times (and am grateful for its wealth of information), but have never posted. Today, since Google is failing me, I've finally registered. Now, here's my dilemma:
I own three Xbox 360s. Two are Elite models, while one is a plain launch system. The other day, I experienced skipping issues, and various other problems. Eventually, games began freezing up. Naturally, I suspected the discs or the disc drive. Testing a few different games didn't produce other results, however. We put the original title back in, and thought we'd try installing it to the HDD. Well, when we went to do so, we discovered it was already installed. Didn't make a difference, obviously.
After a while's worth of troubleshooting, which included swapping out official HDDs from our collection, and eventually running the system without any HDD attached (at which point it ran beautifully), we determined that there's probably something wrong with the hard drive port on the Xbox 360 itself. The HDDs don't exhibit these issues when placed in other systems, yet they all do it when set inside of this one. Really, the 360 does all sorts of scrambled things, like reading game discs as DVDs and so on.
Now, how could I go about replacing the HDD interface on the Xbox 360 system itself? I haven't been able to locate this part, but if anyone can recommend a good Xbox 360 spare parts website which carries it, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if anyone has any other ideas, I would appreciate them, too.
Thanks in advance.
I own three Xbox 360s. Two are Elite models, while one is a plain launch system. The other day, I experienced skipping issues, and various other problems. Eventually, games began freezing up. Naturally, I suspected the discs or the disc drive. Testing a few different games didn't produce other results, however. We put the original title back in, and thought we'd try installing it to the HDD. Well, when we went to do so, we discovered it was already installed. Didn't make a difference, obviously.
After a while's worth of troubleshooting, which included swapping out official HDDs from our collection, and eventually running the system without any HDD attached (at which point it ran beautifully), we determined that there's probably something wrong with the hard drive port on the Xbox 360 itself. The HDDs don't exhibit these issues when placed in other systems, yet they all do it when set inside of this one. Really, the 360 does all sorts of scrambled things, like reading game discs as DVDs and so on.
Now, how could I go about replacing the HDD interface on the Xbox 360 system itself? I haven't been able to locate this part, but if anyone can recommend a good Xbox 360 spare parts website which carries it, I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if anyone has any other ideas, I would appreciate them, too.
Thanks in advance.