My xbox 360 will not play games

By changing the disk drive you mean tho whole unit? So if I change the whole dvd Rom will it play on my motherboard? Show 1 more comment. Chris Green chrisgreen. Did you buy the console used? If you simply replace a faulty drive with a working one, the console will not read game discs, only DVDs and CDs.

You need to either repair the original drive, or swap it's controller board with a drive of the same model. I replaced the original controller board with a drive of the same model and it still will not read games.

Is there a way to see which controller is married to the MB? Serial number identification or other way? I have a few Xboxs I had taken apart and maybe I have misplaced some parts or swapped them, and it seems it would be easier to identify them by some marker than putting each one in a system until maybe it works, and if its a bad laser, then who knows?!

Unfortunately, you can't just swap dvd drives in an xbox and have them work. You have to replace with the same type of drive and retrieve the dvd key from the original drive and spoof it to the new drive. It sounds harder than it is, but it does require hooking your xbox drive to a desktop computer with a via sata pci card. I had the same problem, where my DVD drive wouldn't play anything at all. I swapped drives and movies would play but not games.

So I swapped the Printed Circuit board from the old drive to the new and it worked just as new and no need to flash. Just make sure your replacement DVD Drive is the same model as your old. There's tons of you tutorials on how to swap PCB on youtube. Keep in mind that some models involve soldering but thats easy as well. No sure if this would work on a slim. Michael Arm. There seem to be a lot of checks being made between drive and motherboard, that will cause your console to not being able to update if you have a replaced drive.

The last update in spring was specifically made to detect modified drives, and in turn a lot of consoles with swapped out drives would not be able to finish the update, as the altered firmware on the replaced drive was not properly flashable by the update. So essentially, if you want to continue to play the latest games, that require an updated firmware, do NOT attempt a self repair.

David F. You can't swap the drive without extracting the key from the old drive and flashing it onto the new one. This is a service I repair UK based as a mail in service. If you want any more information you can email me at GizmoWishlist gmail.

Hay can u email me would like Yur services as I replace disk drive and can't play games email me on cefroboy gmail. Con please and thank you. I have swapped out the disc drive and stupidly threw the old one away now it will not play the games can you email me on Markymark gmx.

Thanks Mark. Green light — The power supply is working correctly and the Xbox is on. The Xbox is the second game console made by Microsoft, and was released November 22, My Xbox plays DVDs but not the games.

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Bridge card games. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. My hunch is that your HDD isn't as official as you think it is. The problem is that when they prepare the HDD, the partition that downloaded emulation profiles reside in was almost always left out, breaking original Xbox backwards compatibility. Easy enough to rectify Or rule out as an issue if you happen to have the official Xbox transfer cable that came with larger hard drives and a PC.

Almost always when someone at the forums I've visited through the years has complained about the same problem, ultimately they discover the partition was missing. I do believe that it's not working because it's missing the portion of the emulation. But another thing is that it apparently has Microsoft's blessing? Thanks for the help! If you find the time in your day, could you plop the download files or send me a link to see how I can install the emulation program, please?

Thanks again, and have a great day! I don't know how expensive Transfer cables are and I don't know if I have the spare cash to buy one Thank you for showing me this video! Although it didn't really help me, any advice is appreciated! Yoooooooo your post has everything I need! Thank you so much! I think for now I'll get the cable and do that fun stuff. Thank you so much!!