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| | Hi folks, Think my dvd drive is on the way out but just wanted to get other peoples thoughts. My drive seems to keeping dropping in speed - then speeding back up again then slowing down as if struggling to read. Only started day or two ago and seems to be happening on Mass Effect (brand new disc). Anyone else has this problem with the drive or strange happenings on Mass Effect. Will try some other games out at length to see. Haven't played much else as COD seems to be giving me a bit of grief at the moment (was not ignoring all the invites Mon night just got connection errors all the time!). And can you use the HD-DVD add on drive for games? If my drive is on the way out then buying one of these at the moment would be cheaper than a repair, Cheers
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| That's not sounding good and the hd-dvd player will only play dvds, not games unfortunately (just tried it to be sure).
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| Well at least it's not making bad disc damaging sounds! Thanks for trying Chas will just have to see how it goes.
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| | The exact same thing has recently happened to me! I bought mass effect and at first, every time i put the disc in it came up with a white screen saying "to play this game put it into a xbox 360". but after a few attempts it eventually played. After about 15hours of play the disc refused to read past the menus. It kept on coming up saying "unreadable disc". I swapped the disc twice but exactly the same thing keeps happening. I even spent £7 on a dvd lens cleaner but that didn't help either. I ended up just getting a credit note from the shop. At first it was only that game, but it has now started to happen more and more with my other games. I guess i'm just going to have bite the bullet and send my box back at least i'll catch up with some of the jobs that i've been putting off around the house |
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| Still acting strangely though only on Mass Effect - still no odd noises/disc read error just a lot of stopping and starting. Holding out for now fingers crossed
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| I had a similiarish problem with Skate, once I gave the disc a really good clean it worked fine.
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