crazy disc read errors please help!!!

[zacknace]

so i bought an xbox that had the 3 red lights for ten dollars. fixed the rrod and at that point the only game i had was dead rising. the game played flawlessly for hours until a friend moved the console and the xbox ate the game well after that i got halo 3 and thats when the problems began. it didnt matter whether i played halo 3 or odst both would give me the disc is unreadable message either right before a match or when its over. on the way to the loby or away from the loby it would get the error. same thing in campaign maps. so i bought a new drive and had a friend insert the key into the drive (no mods added) both halo games worked on another console but even after the new drive i still got the errors though not quite as much. i tried cleaning the laser. different power supplies. playing without the hard drive, and with another hard drive, i tried formatting the drive. and keeping the system cold. still no success. even with the game installed on the hard drive it still has the same error in exactly the same spots. after giving up on halo one day i decided to take the game out of the system and play the forza 3 demo off the hard drive you know so i wouldnt have and disc issues. well after ten minutes of play the game loaded a new map and it said the disc is unreadble clean it call microsoft. the same message and the next time i tried to play the demo the same thing happened. any ideas? im thinking its possible it may have occured when NXE was installed but im not sure. has anyone else had this issue? any statements or ideas would be appreciated greatly

[xxrpggamemanxx]

Actually you are correct about the NXE thing. I actually have 2 consoles. My new elite and my old 360 pro. Which I am going to assume you have an original xbox 360 right? One that was made probably 2-3 years ago. For some reason the new games and Halo 3 and Halo:ODST give disc read errors since some update. Microsoft can't figure out what the problem is though, but apparently their working on a fix. Who knows. My original xbox was the same way. It was out of warranty and dying so I got an Elite. :\ That was really my only fix for the problem. The only games of mine or any games I played that ever gave trouble with the old console were halo 3, ODST, and a few of the newer demos so I don't know if I can be fixed as of yet without getting a new console. I guess wait and see if Microsoft gives a fix. Sorta screwed if they don't because you've modified your console. Also by got a new harddrive and inserting a key. Do you not have a microsoft harddrive? Because with the new update coming out in like a week or 2 your xbox can't use any harddrives except microsoft ones...


Edit: Don't bother trying formatting your harddrive or anything. The NXE update is installled on your console itself and not harddrive from what I understand...

[beedog743]

its your disk drive. i fix xboxes and i have had the similar problem