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Hi, it is my first time posting, I bought a brand new arcade from wal-mart yesterday, and I got the same DRE. So, this isn't an old xbox problem, or is it. Does anyone know how to fix this?

  • 06.25.2010 7:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: BlackMesa Staff
Hi, it is my first time posting, I bought a brand new arcade from wal-mart yesterday, and I got the same DRE. So, this isn't an old xbox problem, or is it. Does anyone know how to fix this?
What?

  • 06.25.2010 7:39 PM PDT
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Halo!!!

i got a used copy and it didn't work so i got a new copy it didn't work got another copy it didn't work messed up hard drive got a new xbox 360 it worked it could be the xbox if you haven't tried to play it on another xbox.

  • 07.31.2010 2:37 PM PDT

i have had my xbox since the first came out and no longer have a warranty, so microsoft wants me to pay $120 to fix the disc drive error...is there a way to get this free through bungie?

  • 08.08.2010 1:06 PM PDT

Ah, someone leaked. Now to find the leak and.... plug it.
With justice.

I use coup 5
Never Played halo 1 = Invalid opinion
Bloom isn't whats broken, its your idea of what good is and your opinion
Thats like saying uber nerf armor lock because like 20 percent of the community hates it. Oh wait..................

I was having this problem but over time it seems to have fixed itself.

  • 08.12.2010 11:34 PM PDT

normal is just an opinion

it worked fine when i got it but now it can't load any of the maps not even campaign it......
there's not even a scratch

  • 08.15.2010 7:18 PM PDT

Ah, and the thot plickens. I actually played ODST all the way through a couple of months ago when I first bought it. Other than some stupid long load times, and one or two DRE's, no problem.

Fast forward to last night. Reach is on the way and I thought "Hell, I'll play 2, 3 and ODST through for a warm up!"

Halo 3 was acting weird, with audio glitches and stuttering after loading a save game on 2 or 3 occasions as I made my way through the game again (this time). I don't recall any problems of this nature the first 5 times I played it through.

Next up, ODST. The opening montage plays through, but I notice I can't skip the intro sequence by pressing "any button". Weird. Then, after the intro concludes, the CD drive spins up to just this side of escape velocity, the screen goes black, and.....nothing. So, reboot, try again....same thing. Crap. Re-reboot after removing the disc. And this is where our hero gets super-charged pissed off.

Because, on reboot, my 360 starts with the initial splash screen, and then the pretty green and silver "X" logo just sits there and spins its wheels. No dashboard. No saved games (we're talking like, 600 hours of my life gone to Oblivion [get it? "Oblivion"?], no gamer score (whatever), no xbox. Which is problematic, because, after my third system bricked with the old RROD, I decided to be a little proactive, bought an Arcade (Jasper, I think, anyway both chips are 65nm parts), installed two custom retentioned heat sinks (Thermalright XP-90 and an Asetek Vapochill [$9 at SVC.com kids]) and dropped the whole shebang into a Lian Li 360 case, thereby voiding the hell out of my warranty.

After cursing Microsoft, Bungie, their children and their children's children, I thought about, and solved the problem thus - I replaced the ODST disk in the DVD drive, rebooted the system, and Voila!, I have my 360 back. The first thing I did was to clear the cache, uninstall Halo3 and ODST, test the system with an xbox disk (okee dokee) and a 360 disk (ditto) and then trucked my ass to the nearest game stop to sell all Bungie products and to hell with Reach altogether.

So, what have we learned? This problem is almost certainly related, in this case, to the hard drive, which is a 1st gen 20GB drive reserved from my very first 360 (which was a Xenon?, both chips were 90nm, purchased in summer, 2006). The system booted to the dashboard w/ no hard drive fine, then hung again when I replaced the hard drive, then booted to the dashboard again when I put the ODST disk back in the drive and rebooted.

I know that some persons reported DRE's with 120GB and 60GB HD's. Not sure exactly why ODST and Halo 3 code doesn't like my 20GB drive. Bad juju? Libra rising? Who knows. Who cares. That's the vagaries of quantum physics boys and girls.

It shouldn't surprise us when it fails, so much as amaze us that it ever really worked in the first place.

One last detail. The Arcade system (which is currently everything in my 360, except the hard drive) was purchased in early 2009. Can't remember which DVD manufacturer, sorry. Hitachi, perhaps? But I really don't think this problem is related (solely) to the DVD. That may be part of the problem, but the hard drive is integral in some fashion, or rather the OS or driver files or .ini or EPROM call outs or whatever the hell other voodoo magic makes that little box sound like a tornado and play the sweet ass games before self-engulfing in fiery conflagration sometime in the first 2 weeks to 2 years after purchase.

That was little dancey, but, there you have it, my two cents worth.

  • 08.15.2010 8:33 PM PDT

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Posted by: JonTomas
the hard drive is integral in some fashion, or rather the OS or driver files or .ini or EPROM call outs or whatever the hell other voodoo magic makes that little box sound like a tornado and play the sweet ass games before self-engulfing in fiery conflagration sometime in the first 2 weeks to 2 years after purchase.


I'm not even entirely sure why the hell I'm signed in to b.net at six in the morning (and in the obscure ODST forum, no less), but this was hilarious. Also, we just had our fifth 360 die yesterday (not Halo related) so I feel your pain.

  • 08.16.2010 4:09 AM PDT

Eagle Rock Blue

WHO ARE WE?!

My disc is readable but i cant get the audiophiles :(

  • 08.20.2010 7:55 AM PDT

I just got around to beating ODST on legendary and I got the same problem with my game getting an unreadable disk message usually on the loading screen for data hive. I tried installing it to my hard drive and that allowed me to get about 20 minutes into data hive before the game gave me the message again. While in the mission though, I had my audio cut off partially: I could hear over charged plasma pistol fire, the character breathing heavy when getting hit, but nothing else. This sounds like the same problem that everyone else is having here. What is the best way to go about fixing this problem? Is everyone still calling microsoft support or do I need to message someone on the board?

Thanks for the info.

  • 08.22.2010 7:35 PM PDT

wort

mine is all campaign missions and firefight maps doesnt work

  • 08.23.2010 4:21 AM PDT

I know im a little late to this game, but were there any updates over the past year? Haha I just started playing through it and it freezes up loading at the same point about halfway through the game every time.

-Josh

  • 08.23.2010 4:47 PM PDT
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for me it says disk is unreadable after the first cutscene in odst, and at the beginning of games for halo 3 mp. I usualy make it two or three games before it crashes. Also freezes sometimes during games. bought a new disk didnt fix the problem.

[Edited on 08.25.2010 5:24 PM PDT]

  • 08.25.2010 5:22 PM PDT

normal is just an opinion

Alright here is my issue.

About a month and a half ago my odst stopped being able to play on either of my Arcade or My Original 360 WITH THE HARD DRIVE. It would go to the menu but as soon as you selected a level it would load to 25 then reload it to 25 then say disc unreadable. It did this for every lvl.
Recently I tried it without the hard drive on my arcade. It worked. I cannot however play it on live unless i download an update. The same update that came before my ODST stopped working. A SYSTEM UPDATE.
I'm wondering if this is the trigger that is messing with the discs. Because all the disc errors hear seem to have something with a random update for there system or game.
So is it an update that is messing with it or what???

[Edited on 08.30.2010 5:12 PM PDT]

  • 08.30.2010 2:50 PM PDT

Thats a possibility, have you tried clearing your system cache and running the game with your hard drive but not getting the update?

  • 08.30.2010 5:32 PM PDT

normal is just an opinion

Yes but it still doesn't work on either of the hard drives i have(the 60g and the halo 3 edition one with 12g.)
I'm going to try and use the option delete update and see if that fixes it.

  • 08.30.2010 5:37 PM PDT

normal is just an opinion

I guess my game just hates hard drives

  • 08.31.2010 7:43 AM PDT

I spent most of today playing it, trying to get the audio logs. first, after I got to 15, it stopped me completely. every audio log spot I went to didn't allow me to access it. after playing a split screen co op mission, they worked fine again, but after I got my 18th log, the game froze, but not the xbox. I ejected the disc to go to the dashboard and started the game back up, but then it sent me back every time the screen went black trying to start a mission. I installed it to my hard drive and still the same thing. It's frustrating me how much work I went through, just to have my disc stop working. It does not happen with any other games, although a similar problem has happened with my old MW2 disc. both that and my ODST disc had no scratches

  • 09.11.2010 7:32 PM PDT

Holy crap i wish i'd come here a long time ago. I just thought i sucked at keeping discs clean... Certified Microsoft Replacement Xbox360 Console sucks... Huh... And what is that random CLICK i keep hearing!? When it's on and when it's off.

  • 09.18.2010 2:14 PM PDT


Posted by: AnUnreadabledisc
Holy crap i wish i'd come here a long time ago.


I would assume that means you just picked up ODST and it has the DRE? If, so I'm sorry; same problem here.

A year later and I feel that the problem is still no better taken care of then the day it was discovered. At best we got, "Yeah it's messed up and we don't know why. You should send us your console and we'll fix it, maybe that will work. But how should we know? It's not like we made the system/disc or anything." I don't want to just know that something is wrong, I want to know what the cause is and what is being done to correct it.

I sent a PM to a mod about 2 weeks ago asking exactly what I should do to get the problem solved, what the problem was, and a suggestion of a stickied thread that sums up the problem and what to do if you encounter it; that way you don't have to skim the whole 104 pages to end up with really no info. I never even got an answer, so thanks a ton for caring for a paying customer. This ODST issue has completely hindered my purchase of reach, the last thing I want is another perfect condition halo disc that I can't even play.

I guess there's only one last thing to say. Sorry for the rant, needed to throw my 2 cents in.

  • 09.21.2010 8:42 PM PDT


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Posted by: AnUnreadabledisc
Holy crap i wish i'd come here a long time ago.


I would assume that means you just picked up ODST and it has the DRE? If, so I'm sorry; same problem here.

A year later and I feel that the problem is still no better taken care of then the day it was discovered. At best we got, "Yeah it's messed up and we don't know why. You should send us your console and we'll fix it, maybe that will work. But how should we know? It's not like we made the system/disc or anything." I don't want to just know that something is wrong, I want to know what the cause is and what is being done to correct it.

I sent a PM to a mod about 2 weeks ago asking exactly what I should do to get the problem solved, what the problem was, and a suggestion of a stickied thread that sums up the problem and what to do if you encounter it; that way you don't have to skim the whole 104 pages to end up with really no info. I never even got an answer, so thanks a ton for caring for a paying customer. This ODST issue has completely hindered my purchase of reach, the last thing I want is another perfect condition halo disc that I can't even play.

I guess there's only one last thing to say. Sorry for the rant, needed to throw my 2 cents in.


And history repeats itself with Halo Reach...

  • 09.28.2010 6:28 AM PDT

Aint it the truth spartan.

I picked up reach too just to see if it would work, damn am I stupid.

I made a thread a couple days before reach dropped asking people if they thought the problem would return; I sure called that one form a mile away.

  • 09.28.2010 12:49 PM PDT

Is it a problem that my Halo: Reach disc looks like there is an air bubble in it? I played it over and my friend's place, cause sadly, I don't have a 360, but it seemed to be working just fine.

Help is appreciated

  • 11.17.2010 10:55 PM PDT

If it worked when you played it then it should work fine but you might want to go get it checked at a store or something just to be safe.

  • 12.11.2010 2:47 PM PDT

Thanks, It's working fine, but you never know, I'll check it out

  • 01.06.2011 12:45 AM PDT