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I just bought an xbox 360 arcade for my son for Christmas and we go rent the first rented game from our local video store. He's playing it for about 20 min. and starts complaining that theres something wrong with the xbox. we hear a grinding like noise and the game says unreadable disc. He takes the game out and notices a ring scratch on the disc. So we take it back thinking that it's just the game and get another one, get it home and he starts playing and once again same problem. He also played his madden 09 and arcade game that came with the bundle for about 8 hrs since he got this on Christmas eve and neither one of those disc are scratched, but he's scared to play them now which I don't blame him. I immediatley went online and am now reading alot of complaints on this same problem. The question I have is is this a fixable problem? And could you PLEASE give me some advice on what to do? Thank you.
I bought my second xbox (arcade version) on friday (4 days ago)...only because my first has been sent back for the 5TH TIME!!!!! (i.e. 3 red rings). Much to my suprise...i too got the disc read error after only about 3-4 hours of gameplay. I am in the same boat you are...GOW 2 had a ring that looked like is was "scratched into the disc". I NEVER had a problem playing GOW 2 on my oringinal console....I know this console scratched my game and im P.O.'d......I bought my second xbox (arcade version) on friday (4 days ago)...only because my first has been sent back for the 5TH TIME!!!!! (i.e. 3 red rings). Much to my suprise...i too got the disc read error after only about 3-4 hours of gameplay. I am in the same boat you are...GOW 2 had a ring that looked like is was "scratched into the disc". I NEVER had a problem playing GOW 2 on my oringinal console....I know this console scratched my game and im P.O.'d......
AnonymousJan 18, 2009
same ****. no fix?
same ****. no fix?
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If the xbox is under warranty ( Microsoft has extended coverage on those) , have Microsoft fix it. If it's older , you'll need to find a service that fixes 360s If the case seal is broken Microsoft wont cover any warranty issues
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The first thing to check is the disk, are there any visible scratches on the disk ? If so see if you can get your disk resurfaced, many game and tech stores now offer this at a relatively small cost.
Another solution is to borrow the same disk from a friend (or rent from a store) and install it to the hard drive of your xbox, you will still need your disk to play the game but your xbox will be loading the data off your hard drive.
To understand this problem you have to understand that it occurs when your xbox can't read the file you need to play that aspect of the game for you this seems to be the new goblin character, the two remedies above will solve this issue.
The disk is so scratched that the xbox can't read the security sector so the x box thinks its a media CD. I would return the game for a better one. Or you can take the game to blockbuster or game stop, anyplace that rents out games or movies and you can have then run it on their DVD buffering machine.
Sounds like the Xbox is trying to find a piece of data that it need to go further and because of a dirty or scratched disk, it can't find it. If you want to verify whether it's your disk or your Xbox, go to your local game rental store and rent a copy of the same game to see if you have the same problem.
most of the new game disk have security feture to prevent copy. if some one rented and copyed its toast. The console picks this up and will not play it. If you can find some one to mod your console that will get past the security feture it should work but you lose the warnty
your unit is still under warranty if you bought it new the best thing to do is call the xbox number and they will send you a fedex box to put it in and send out my xbox took about 2 month to fix and they gave me a free month to their online services hope this helps
The reason for this is you got the crappy Xbox 360 Arcade and it has been known to do that, especially when you move the console while it's on and you're playing it.
is the game rented or is it store bought? Most rented games have problems like that because of people just messing around with the disc cause the dont own it but if its store bought then there is probably a big scratch under the disc lamination.
The Arcade model comes with no harddrive, no hdmi (for digital connection to an HDTV), and I beleive the controller is wired instead of wireless. If you are planning on just playing games then the arcade may be a good choice for you as it's cheaper but you may find yourself wanting a hard drive sooner than later. Without a hard drive you will not be able to purchase or rent movies and you will not be able to download game demos and Xbox Live Arcade games. To compensate Microsoft includes a disc with some of the greatest hits of XBox Live Arcade with the Arcade version. The Pro comes with a 20GB hard drive but still no HDMI. The Elite version has a 120GB hard drive and HDMI. For most people the Pro is the one to get. If you were to get the Arcade then purchase a hard drive later you will pay more than the price of the pro.
Dont worry. All this is, is your son must of tipped over his Xbox 360 console or he moved it, while it was on. In the Xbox 360 there is a default in which the thing that holds the cd and reads it is lose and falls onto the cd and scratches the disk, thats why it is a perfect circle. It happend to me the first day i got the Xbox 360. And also keep the Xbox laid down, it keeps it safer from tipping over and prevents it from scratching it again. Go to the store you bought the game from and you should be able to get a new one. My store gave me ea skate back. Show them your receipt. If they dont accept it, you have to call microsoft and send in that game and they send you a new one in the case.
I bought my second xbox (arcade version) on friday (4 days ago)...only because my first has been sent back for the 5TH TIME!!!!! (i.e. 3 red rings). Much to my suprise...i too got the disc read error after only about 3-4 hours of gameplay. I am in the same boat you are...GOW 2 had a ring that looked like is was "scratched into the disc". I NEVER had a problem playing GOW 2 on my oringinal console....I know this console scratched my game and im P.O.'d......
same ****. no fix?
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