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Subject: X-box Problems
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Lately make my xbox has been making odd noises and my games have just recently started to skip, freeze and all the other bad stuff. I also noticed that on my games have these perfect circular scratches all the ways around the cd. It looks as if the lens goes to read the cd and goes too close and scratches the cd. This probably wouldn't be too much of a problem but i think my xbox does it constantly. Has anyone here had the same problem.

Halo.... there now its halo related

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  • 10.13.2004 5:26 PM PDT
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Yeah man, mine was making weird sounds all last week after they repaird the road out front of our place. I think a lot of dust worked its way in there. It was freezing...not loading, the lil green light on the front of the xbox even turned RED...i was like WTF...never seen that colour on there before. A message came up saying "your xbox needs to be serviced bla bla bla" in 5 different languages and then it did a screen freeze and I had halo in when it did this. When the screen froze the last time there were clips of different body parts of a flood all in sections like it was a flood just taken apart and laid out flat. It was weird. So this morning when I got home from work I took the xbox apart and vacumed it out and cleaned the laser lense and pulled a few dust bunnies outs the gears...took me half an hour or so and Im not going to pay some shmuck a hundred bucks to do it and be without my xbox. After I cleaned it all out it loaded much quicker, didnt freeze at all during POA and only froze the sound a few times during Halo, but the game play didnt slow down at least. Its really making me mad because I cant move to the left during game play cuz my controler is messed as of last week (since I learnd I can get extra hight from clickin left after I jump...think it messed it up grrr) and now the xbox isnt running 100% and theres like 3 weeks until halo2. I may be buying a new one when I pick up H2 Nov8th, but I might try using a cleaning disk before. I dont have 200 bucks to throw down on a new one for another few weeks so I hope what I did will last until then.

  • 10.13.2004 9:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: EliteSlapPer
Yeah man, mine was making weird sounds all last week after they repaird the road out front of our place. I think a lot of dust worked its way in there. It was freezing...not loading, the lil green light on the front of the xbox even turned RED...i was like WTF...never seen that colour on there before. A message came up saying "your xbox needs to be serviced bla bla bla" in 5 different languages and then it did a screen freeze and I had halo in when it did this. When the screen froze the last time there were clips of different body parts of a flood all in sections like it was a flood just taken apart and laid out flat. It was weird. So this morning when I got home from work I took the xbox apart and vacumed it out and cleaned the laser lense and pulled a few dust bunnies outs the gears...took me half an hour or so and Im not going to pay some shmuck a hundred bucks to do it and be without my xbox. After I cleaned it all out it loaded much quicker, didnt freeze at all during POA and only froze the sound a few times during Halo, but the game play didnt slow down at least. Its really making me mad because I cant move to the left during game play cuz my controler is messed as of last week (since I learnd I can get extra hight from clickin left after I jump...think it messed it up grrr) and now the xbox isnt running 100% and theres like 3 weeks until halo2. I may be buying a new one when I pick up H2 Nov8th, but I might try using a cleaning disk before. I dont have 200 bucks to throw down on a new one for another few weeks so I hope what I did will last until then.


lol I'm glad you took my advice =P but um.... DUST BUNNIES inside your xbox? O_O!!! lol thats gonna be a problem =P

oh btw does it skip on other games aswell? cause it might be a problem with the halo disk, not the xbox

  • 10.14.2004 12:06 AM PDT
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NOW YOU TELL ME!


Hahaha no. But thanks Zels, it mess's up on all games, freezing and such. Sounded like there was somthing in the gears. Anyways, I vacumed it out and yes there was a bunny or two in around the gears so I pulled them outa there with a cue tip. I mixed vinigar and water and softly cleaned the lens and buffed it dry. Cleaned around the fan for maximum air flow...Put the beast back together and now its loading everything accept insted of freezing while playing (sound & picture) its just the sound that does it and not very offten. I played two levels yesterday after disecting it, ran alright, but I would like a new xbox before I pick up H2, Im just going to have to find some second hand controlers cuz those lil S (which stands for "Chit") controlers that come with the new xbox's are total crap. I need the old one.

Note: To the designer of the S controler. Do us people with hands bigger then 4" across a favore and shoot your self in the head. Jackass.

  • 10.14.2004 1:53 AM PDT