Cheap Xbox 360 Repairs

waterhouse_melons

Does anyone know where I could get my xbox 360 repaired at a cut of the cost of £82 Microsoft quoted me? It's just that yesterday the xbox disc reader went all spaz on me, won't read discs and scratched my black ops

custardy

if its just the drive,then its an easy repair to replace the drive

Hammyman

Err, no its not that simple. Each drive has a unique key and if the key isn't what your 360 is expecting, it won't work.

It costs me £10 to post something the size and weight of a 360 so if you include that and £30 for an hours labour, they're effectively replacing the drive at £30 for the part.

hubert_cumberdale

i thought you could change the drives as long as it was the same make one

as they used different manufacturers i would just buy a new xbox slim least its new and has fresh warrenty

custardy

Hammyman wrote: »

Err, no its not that simple. Each drive has a unique key and if the key isn't what your 360 is expecting, it won't work.

It costs me £10 to post something the size and weight of a 360 so if you include that and £30 for an hours labour, they're effectively replacing the drive at £30 for the part.

err it is an easy repair
i never said you do or dont have to do anything
maybe its too complex for you but some of us can complete basic repairs
theres a gazzilion tutorials out there. dumping the firmware from the drive isnt hard

waterhouse_melons

its not the hard drive that it broke, its the disc reader and it makes some sort of weird noise when I turn it on and when any cd is put in, it scratches it in a round circle. Just randomly started for no reason :S

custardy

waterhouse_melons wrote: »

its not the hard drive that it broke, its the disc reader and it makes some sort of weird noise when I turn it on and when any cd is put in, it scratches it in a round circle. Just randomly started for no reason :S

that is the drive i am referring to
both the drives can be referred to as such

Acehole_2

you can replace the disc reader, i have replaced several, however it is paired with a small printed circuit board too, you have to replace both. look for someone selling a broken unit and nick the parts. if possible or cheap enough

waterhouse_melons

Think it sorted itself out now, gambled on putting a crappy game in (websites said to try a diff game) and it works :S

Hammyman

custardy wrote: »

err it is an easy repair
i never said you do or dont have to do anything
maybe its too complex for you but some of us can complete basic repairs
theres a gazzilion tutorials out there. dumping the firmware from the drive isnt hard

Dumping it is the easy part.

I've been building and repairing computers for 28 years. I've a BTEC HNC in Electronics Engineering and I was reading and reprogramming PROMS as part of my job as a bench engineer in the late 1980's...

So no, its not too complex for me. However it is for a lot of people.

custardy

Hammyman wrote: »

Dumping it is the easy part.

I've been building and repairing computers for 28 years. I've a BTEC HNC in Electronics Engineering and I was reading and reprogramming PROMS as part of my job as a bench engineer in the late 1980's...

So no, its not too complex for me. However it is for a lot of people.

So wheres the hard part?