I only use my dvdrom to make backups of originals, which is very rare. I play all my games from the Hard Drive.
For some reason yesterday afternoon, my samsung drive decided it didnt want to open anymore. It has worked fine for so far. I took it apart and I cant see anything that looks worn out or out of place.
If I push back the emergency eject arm, the drive will pull out manually with no problems. When the drive it out and I hit the eject/retract button it will pull the drive back in.
Drive still works fine, will still read games. It just wont open on its own anymore. I cant hear anything catching or getting jammed when I hit the eject button.

Has anyone else had this problem and was able to fix it?
Thanx for your time.

Same thing seems to be happening to my friends Xbox. Only when he turns his on, it sounds like a jet is taking off.

Somone else is having a simmular problem here
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?act...T&f=41&t=162709

This must not be to common of a problem. Its amazing how fast post move here. If anyone sees this post and replies, thanx for taking the time.

Im still playing around with my drive, but no sucess yet. Hopefully somone has had this problem and was able to fix it??

bumping my post again. Im getting close to the point of wanting to stomp on my drive now

Bump, took it apart again and put it back together, damn thing still wont open.

hey, i'm having exactly the same problem- it was working last night!!!!
i havent even touched my xbox !

i tried using the eject program you can dl from the x-s tools page (i think)
but that doesnt work either

i can boot the M$ dash fine, but still cant eject

this leads me to believe its hardware related, so i'm off to break out the torx bits AGAIN!!

damn i wanna play LIVE!!

if anyone can give us a shove in the right direction, then please do!

Sooo..
I have this problem with a Phillips...
The tray will NOT open... in MY xbox...
I put the drive in a friends xbox, and it works just fine!!!!

pushing the eject button on my xbox won't open the tray, but WILL turn on the xbox.. causing it to crash at the dashboard... (hangs on the flubber..)

pushing the 'power' button turns the xbox on, and boots into Unleash...
Any ideas??????

Its a Samsung you will just have to live with it. My 4 mates with Samsungs all have the same problem. The drive eject mechenism is just so badly designed.

There is no way of fixing them, the only way to get the drive to open is to keep tapping the tray after you have pressed eject.

This post has been edited by Tanas: Sep 7 2004, 10:23 AM

Hi
I have been playing with a 605b and noticed that the tray will not open some times if the magnetic disc claming does not release. Tapping the drive on top of the drive soon after hitting the eject button generally releases the disc claming mechanism.
Ther problem is either the magnetic clamp is too strong or head retraction is no longer strong enough to part the magnetic clamp.
Cheers

I've the same problem, the try wan't open. If there is a dvd inside my samsung work correctly but if there isn't any dvds inside, I must press the try. So it want open...

any idea? I think is the try motor...

The Samsung drive's eject mechanism is near the front of the drive, and can become gunked up, producing the symptoms described above. Lubricating the tray and the head retraction mechanism solved this problem for me. I make no warranty that it will work for you.

HOWTO strip down a Samsung and lubricate the tray and head retraction mechanism:

CAVEATS:

Do not lubricate the area of the spindle that the rubber band runs in.
Do not touch, breathe on, or get oil on the laser lens. As much as possible, avoid contact with the laser assembly.

Disassembly (drive):

Remove the decorative tray front (the black plastic 'xbox' piece).
Unscrew the four screws on the bottom, and remove the metal covers.
Press the white tab on the front with a screwdriver until the laser unit moves down, and the tray moves forward.
Pull the tray out as far as it will go.
Press down on the two tray latches, and pull the tray forward, removing it from the drive.
http://www.llamma.com/xbox/Repairs/Samsung...Disassembly.htm has photos of the disassembly of a samsung drive. You need to disassemble the drive down to 'Removing the DVD tray, two clips need to be depressed on either side of the front of the DVD to allow its removal'

Disassembly (tray mechanism)

Remove the rubber band from the motor to the spindle.
Carefully, with a small screwdriver, compress the latch on the spindle hub, and remove the spindle.
Remove the gear the spindle connects to.
Compress the hub of the white swing-arm, and remove it. It has two latches, so this may require three hands.

Maintainance:
With a q-tip and oil, lubricate the white slider. Make sure to get the entire length that it runs over, and the channel the peg on the laser assembly travels in.
Lubricate the three hubs the spindle, gear, and swing-arm rest on.
Lubricate the insides of the spindle, gear and swing-arm, where they attach to the hub.
Lubricate the channel in the arm of the swing-arm that the white slider travels in.
Lubricate the three channels in the bottom of the tray.

Reassembly:
Slide the slider all the way to the left (as you'd look at the drive were it in an XBox). Replace the gear and spindle.
Slide the slider a little to the right, and replace the swing-arm
Slide the slider all the way to the left again, and replace the rubber band. Slide the tray back in until it clicks. Make sure the leftmost protruberance on the slider is correctly inside the channel on the bottom of the tray.
Replace the metal covers and screws.
Replace the decorative tray front.
Plug the drive in and power on - it should correctly retract the tray. Verify the tray opens and closes, and the drive can read CDs/DVDs.

Proper Job!

Hey guys...

My Philips DVD drive started doing this too. It was 100% perfect, then yesterday if stopped ejecting. I opened the whole thing up and everything looks good. The DVD tray is on track and nothing is too dusty or gunked up. PGP2 did an update, then this started happening.

Is it a BIOS thing? The hardware seems fine, so I think it might be software based.


Anyone have any info on that? Could a BIOS or some update fix this "DVD tray refuses to open" issue.


oh, and bump.

gemeric