StaticPulse 262 Posted March 14, 2015 Okay, so when I first got this nightmare of a device. it had been siitting in pieces in a box with a xenon gathering rust on the shield. Everything was taken apart by someone who should NEVER work on electronics... Originally I had thought that the drive that it used was as Toshiba Samsung ms25 and after some painstaking research it turned out that it was the lite-on drive that I thought went with the xenon. Got it all assembled properly and on POST the DVD eject problem started happening so I went through the list of things to address the problem to no avail. It wasn't until I came across an article suggesting an alternate solder point to fix the open tray error It did fix the open drive error but the drive still won't properly read a game or dvd (even after a POT adjust on the laser) any suggestions would be welcome as I'd like to fix and sell it but right about now I'm strongly considering the internal hard drive hack and selling the DVD's for parts Attached is a picture of where the wire is to be soldered, this forum doesnt like the image extension I'm trying to embed from Team Xecuter 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moses_373 151 Posted March 15, 2015 It sounds like your laser is dead. I would just replace it. They cost around $5-$8 on ebay. Pot tweaks don't always work and are generally a very temporary fix at best. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StaticPulse 262 Posted March 15, 2015 It sounds like your laser is dead. I would just replace it. They cost around $5-$8 on ebay. Pot tweaks don't always work and are generally a very temporary fix at best. Thank you! I'll start looking on ebay for one Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swizzy 2084 Posted March 15, 2015 Is this a JTAG/RGH or just a flashed machine? if memory serves me right the consoles that came with MS25's don't have any OSIG data in the kv (making you able to flash any drive just putting the correct dvdkey in there and having it work) 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StaticPulse 262 Posted March 16, 2015 Is this a JTAG/RGH or just a flashed machine? if memory serves me right the consoles that came with MS25's don't have any OSIG data in the kv (making you able to flash any drive just putting the correct dvdkey in there and having it work) From what I gather no Falcons came with ms25, I got two parted out and weathered phats, one's a Xenon and the other is a Falcon. the Xenon has RRoD and the Falcon just doesnt read discs. The drives in the box are a Lite-On and a ms25. From doing research I found out the drive most likely used for the falcon is the Lite-on but I won't know for sure until after I RGH it. They're both stock just owned by someone who should've never touched them when they originally broke. He did the hot towel trick to the Xenon so I'm sure I'm going to have to reball that one and originally, this Falcon only had the eject error issue which I did fix but it still won't read a disc for either of the drives. I know if its the wrong DVD key it will still play a DVD and if its a game it will read and ask to play in an xbox 360. The Falcon does neither... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StaticPulse 262 Posted March 19, 2015 It sounds like your laser is dead. I would just replace it. They cost around $5-$8 on ebay. Pot tweaks don't always work and are generally a very temporary fix at best. Since replacing the laser the drive now reads discs however it won't play games. Its acting as though the DVD Keys don't match with the "Insert this game into an xbox 360" Message. Now I'm really confused since everywhere I've read on the TX forums Falcons did not ship with MS25 drives...... I'm going to RGH this console so I can at least dump the DVD key from the mobo NAND. Any ideas as to an alternative method of doing this other than glitching the board to run Xell? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Swizzy 2084 Posted March 19, 2015 Since replacing the laser the drive now reads discs however it won't play games. Its acting as though the DVD Keys don't match with the "Insert this game into an xbox 360" Message. Now I'm really confused since everywhere I've read on the TX forums Falcons did not ship with MS25 drives...... I'm going to RGH this console so I can at least dump the DVD key from the mobo NAND. Any ideas as to an alternative method of doing this other than glitching the board to run Xell? What kernel does it have? without that info it's impossible to give you any good tips... If it's old enough, you can use JTAG, otherwise RGH/R-JTAG is the way you have to go unless you want to try and bruteforce the cpukey from your console... 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StaticPulse 262 Posted March 19, 2015 What kernel does it have? without that info it's impossible to give you any good tips... If it's old enough, you can use JTAG, otherwise RGH/R-JTAG is the way you have to go unless you want to try and bruteforce the cpukey from your console... I thought as much... It has the current kernel 17150 =\ Looks like I'll just have to wait until I get the modding parts to fully fix the drive, I am happy that at least its reading discs again though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites