Monday, December 12, 2005
Replaced my XBOX DVD drive
After suffering "dirty disc" errors intermittently over the past few months, I decided to buy a replacement DVD drive for my XBOX. I got mine on ebay for less than $30 shipped and I installed it a few minutes ago.
The whole process, which involved removing 8 screws and disconnecting IDE and power cables, took less than 10 minutes.
The kids are currently playing one of the games that used to crash with the old drive and everything appears to be working great.
Here are photos that document the process.
UPDATE: I created a step-by-step overview of the process over at Instructables.com.
After suffering "dirty disc" errors intermittently over the past few months, I decided to buy a replacement DVD drive for my XBOX. I got mine on ebay for less than $30 shipped and I installed it a few minutes ago.The whole process, which involved removing 8 screws and disconnecting IDE and power cables, took less than 10 minutes.
The kids are currently playing one of the games that used to crash with the old drive and everything appears to be working great.
Here are photos that document the process.
UPDATE: I created a step-by-step overview of the process over at Instructables.com.
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*sniff sniff* Do I smell photo gallery cookin'?
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