Xbox 360 Fanboy

Yes mine has become unreadable as well as Call of Duty 3. I haven't played my 360 in weeks because of this. I was thinking it had something to do with either the update, or the fact that I just got mine back from microsoft(red lights of death) and they screwed something up...basically I don't know the cause of these mess ups and its frustrating to say the least+

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Yeah I've had that trouble too.

Seems like Gears and Chromehounds are the two games that give me the most trouble.

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I was having this issue with my disk, this happened mostly during Coop play, but I took it back to Circuit City to have it replaced. You have a 90 day warranty on the discs through Microsoft. So far so good with the new disc.

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Its happened to me once and otherwise I've had weird freezing issues every so often. Pretty annoying.

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I had this happen with a few disks when in the first few days that I had my 360. I had it in the 'vertical' orientation, and tried lying it flat. The problem went away, and I've kept it lying flat ever since (possibly just superstition caused by a coincidence).

I noticed that the 360 in the article is flat though; perhaps there's another reason why the disk isn't being picked up properly, or is unstable when spinning.

Another issue here is why can't the 360 just ask you to clean and re-insert the disk, and continue from the point where it left off? Wouldn't be much help in an online game, but I don't see why this has to cause a restart. Anyone care to ask MS this?

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Happens to me too. I generally clean the disk and don't have a problem for a while... I used to stand my console up but found that standing it up was scratching my games... Let's see this game is SSOOO
awesome that not only have we horrible match making set up but now we have unreadable discs every so often... Congrats Cliffy on delivering a game that
could be the best but is quickly becoming AVERAGE!!

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I had a problem a few days ago that when I was playin on live that after a few matches i would get the half of the ring of death in the 1st and 3rd quadrant. it happen to me a couple times that night. it would let me play a few games and then do it again. i would have to unplg my system to get it to reboot. but it's been workin fine since then.

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I'm not so sure it's the fault of any specific game or disk. Perhaps it's more obvious in some games than others because they use more of the disk's capacity, or because they do more random access reads, or because they start and stop the drive more often, etc.

The one that caused me the most trouble was FIFA 07, which would play perfectly until I had to make a substitution when a player was injured. The substitution screen would appear, but when it tried to load the background music from disk it gave the error.

The internal drive is one of the 360's worst points- it's loud, it scratches disks, and it may be the cause of these read problems.

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thought it was just me, but randomly gears will make my xbox sound like theres poprocks in it and that screen will show up, its fine after a restart but still, wtf.

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same thing happened to me. just gotta wipe it w/ one of those disc clean wipes

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I've never had a single problem with dirty discs. But I've always been extremely careful with my discs - never storing them upside down, always putting them back in the jewel case when they're not in use.

My 360 is running flat, as well.

I HAVE had rare problems with crashing. Couple times in Oblivion, Saints Row, Call of Duty 3, Need for Speed Carbon, Tony Hawk's Project 8 and so on. Minority of titles and it seems to be related to the cache, not the cleanliness of the disc.

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This didn't use to happen when I first played GOW, this happens a lot during cutscenes at different times in the game. I'm on my third copy now. Still having errors. And it's only happening in this game. I've played Viva Pinata for about 100 hours no with no such error.

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yup. had the same problem the first day i got the game. my 360 isn't a launch console, is well ventilated, and well taken care of. i've gotten the error about 5 times in the past couple of weeks.

the only other game that gave me this error was dead rising. so who knows whats up.

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I haven't had this problem with GOW, but I have with Dead Rising and Oblivion, it seems to be an error in the disk cache, if I remove my hard drive the game runs just fine, I had to buy a memory card so I could do this and keep my saves. It's really rather disappointing though, I hope a patch is released to fix this eventually.

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HELL YEA I HAVE THIS PROBLEM!!!! i remember when i first got it and it was the cut scene before you get trapped in the building with the berserker. so i am watching the cut scene where the locusts start coming in, and it friggin says disc read error!!!! i was so pissed, cuz i told my friends and there were all like i misssed the best cut scene in the game. so i had to wait and play it again on insane to see it. which didnt take that long given how short a game it is >.

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Dead Rising just gave me a disc read error a few minutes ago. Sigh.
This happened a few times before, and only with this game.
My 360 is standing up vertically, guess I'll try changing the orientation when I want to cut some living impaired.

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It Happens With Me Too, I Just Eject The Disk With My Universal Remote, Or Restart The Whole 360 And It Works Fine For A Couple Of Days. I Have It Standing By The Way Cause It Used To Freeze On Me All The Time When It Was Laying Down.

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Someone who has this problem might want to try reloading the game cache during boot-up and see if this does anything to change or fix the problem.

There's two ways I know of to clear the cache - hold down A during the booting of a game (before any splash screen appears) or load three different games besides the game you want to clear the cache for (I'm pretty sure there's only three caches still, like on original Xbox). Obviously this second method isn't useful unless you have at least four games.

Worth a shot, if nothing else works, at least.

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I had the problem the other day. I was in coop on live playing as dom and we just finished the prison break scene. It was rather annoying, all I had to do was eject the disk and put it back in... Just got the Xbox and this scared the crap out of me. Hasn't happened since, and I'm hoping its a update fixable problem :)

Either way, I

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Its happened to me a few times. I even went and returned a copy and got a new one, but i still have the same issues. Though the new cd failure could be from the weird noice my xbox made the other day? I dont what happened, but after it Gears isnt working right

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