xbox scratching discs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

my second hand xbox arrived in the post on monday evening, spent most of monday night trying to get streaming working 'tween the sexbox and ubuntu and didn't actually throw any of the games in until tuesday.

5 o clock tuesday now, and both fifa 09 and mirrors edge (both new, bought them last week) are unreadable. I see some small little scratches, but nothing major.. is the xbox destroying the discs or is it some sort of fault inside the xbox that it just isn't recognising perfectly fine discs?

What are my options here, having gone the second hand route.. I heard from a friend when his xbox rrod'd that it costs 80 euro to have it repaired, is that right? is this 8 hours of xbox fun really all that I get to have before I have to bin the bastard or **** it off abroad for god knows how many weeks?

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forgot to mention, xbox was completely horizontal the whole time there was a disc inside it. Disc was taken out and put in case immediately when it was changed, I am about as sure as I humanly can be that I didn't do any damage to these discs (or the console).

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rang sexbox support and they mentioned I shouldnt have had it on the floor because the vibrations frmo people walking around might cause the disc to get scratched .. and then I realise that before I put it on the floor I had it resting on my gaming chair.. with inbuilt ****ing speakers which i had it connected to

*sigh*

on the plus side, it is going to work out cheaper for me to replace the games than it would have to have it shipped off for repair. And when enough time has passed that I no longer feel like quite as much of a jackass as I do now, I might even tell my friends about this and it will make a very amusing story for them

FutureGuy

I was the person that sold him the xbox. I was working absolutely perfect before I sent it. I played SF4, Fifa 09 and TR on it without any problems before I shipped it in an oversized box (also in its original box) with lots of bubblewrap/paper.

Just reading all of your posts, I'm certain that its the vibrations from the speaker from your gaming chair that did the damage. Xboxes are notoriusly finicky when playing. Any movement or vibration can scratch the disc. Stoopid gaming chair

On a brighter note, Smyths fix scratched discs for 4 euro or so.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

aye, 4 euro.. plus 15-20 euro to get a bus up to smyths

that's how they get you!

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just in case this thread should put anyone off dealing with futureguy on adverts, srsly.. xbox is in perfect nick, it all works great. The fault was entirely mine.

danniemcq

this was on BBC's watchdog few weeks back, apparently it is a type of eroor a few have. They done tests and the vibration from say a book etc be dropped nearby can scratch the disks. So i'd say maybe jumping around (guitar Hero) or putting your feet up on thye table could cause problems. Maybe put the xbox on a shelf under the tv or maybe put DVD cases underneath the 4 corners could stop vibration transfer?

oh and according to watchdog, sexbox support won't accept responsibility!

elderlemon

I got my son a 360 a couple months back. It worked for one day before it started eating disks (3 in total). Brought it back and they replaced it and the disks with no problems. They did ask if it was on a wooden floor etc as the vibrations could cause the problems.

It never was on a wooden floor and the new one is in exactly the same place and we've had no problems.

danniemcq wrote: »

this was on BBC's watchdog few weeks back, apparently it is a type of eroor a few have. They done tests and the vibration from say a book etc be dropped nearby can scratch the disks. So i'd say maybe jumping around (guitar Hero) or putting your feet up on thye table could cause problems. Maybe put the xbox on a shelf under the tv or maybe put DVD cases underneath the 4 corners could stop vibration transfer?

oh and according to watchdog, sexbox support won't accept responsibility!

danniemcq

try and look up the bbc watchdog site i think they were looking for people with stories like yours, i'd get the link but at work i only have limited access