XBOX 360 scratching discs

m16 elitest

My XBOX 360 has been scratching my discs lately, and all my friends are having the same issue. Has anyone here had this problem?

thaneofcawdor

No, but do you have your console upright or on its side? I noticed that when I ran games with the console upright it generated a lot of noise, and so I've run it horizontally ever since as a precaution.

m16 elitest

I have it lying down on it's side, when I had it upright it cracked my Rainbow Six Vegas disc.

thaneofcawdor

Yeah, I'm guessing you have a console with a bad disc drive. You might want to look into having it serviced or replaced before it does more damage.

m16 elitest

Microsoft said they only cover the red ring of death, and that's all.

thaneofcawdor

Then stick your 360 in an oven for half an hour whilst playing Bioshock. That ought to do it

Kiey

You can always just say you got a red ring of death and send it in, I doubt they'll check. They usually just send you a new 360 as a replacement.

I've also gotten random disc read errors about games being scratched, but only ever with NCAA Football 07 and 08 (when it was laying on its side.) I put it vertical and it seems to not do it as much anymore. I've gotten a 1 red light ring error, I think its E-64 which is a disc drive malfunction or something.

snookernet

Elaborating on what Kiey said, tell them you randomly, but with increasing frequency, get the red ring of death. That was the reason for my last replacement (I think I'm on 5) and if they turn it on and it works, I doubt they'll keep trying to reproduce the problem. They'll probably just do whatever it is that they do to fix the red ring of death and send it out to some unlucky person.

mrrobbob

I just bought a 360 and right out of the box it can't read games, man I'm pissed.