What DVD drive do I have?, Samsung, Philips or Thomson? Options

[RudeBastard]

[Xboxmodder3690]

I have a new Phillips (came with my 1.6) and it reads almost everything I can throw at it, even CD-Rs. in my other box, I have a Thompson READS NOTHING. I have even gotten a dirty disk error on it right after I have played the game on my 1.6! Man how I hate this Thompson

[ydgmms]

Heres probably a stupid question...

Will replacing the DVDDrive with another Xbox drive freak out XBOX Live and cause you to get banned? I doubt it because its still an xbox drive.

But how about one of those 616 Samsung drives?


My drive has been giving me read errors on retail games. Bought it used....can't return it now. So...my options are: 1) use a CD/DVD lens cleaner disk. 2) replace the xbox drive with another xbox drive (from ebay). 3) replace the xbox drive with a premodded samsung616 from ebay.

I DO play on xbox live. So..which is the best option?

[CamdogXIII]

I got a phillips and it won't read only one kind of brand but i can't remeber what it was. But i reads cd-r fine and cd-rw fine. haven't tried dvd-r,+r,-rwetc. (no dvd Burner)

[z00labus]

I just bought a new xbox for the samsung dvd drive... I installed it and it reads DVD-R's and Orginals but not CD-Rs... I replaced my thompson because I have a bunch of divx's on cd-r and wanted to use my xbox as a media center to play those divx's. It is not reading music CD-r or data ones with divx movies on it...

Any ideas? Could I have burned all those wrong? Is there a special configuaration that you have to burn in order for the xbox to read them?

[jesterrace777]

[shank69xo]

[Robbis]

unfortunately i have a thompson

[Cashed]

I just bought an Xbox yesterday (finally :|) and I got a Samsung drive. Now from what I had heard, Samsungs could read almost any type of burned CDs. My Xbox was manufactured on July 13th 2004 and it can't read CD-Rs, which has me bummed. Can someone tell me what type of CDs the Samsung will read?

Thanks for the help.

[shyun1]

[painless8000]

I also have a Thompson dvd-drive and I bought my xbox when it first released in Europe. Anyway it reads cd-rw (only quality and patience) dvd-r dvd+r (Platinum works really great) and dvd+rw. I must say that the drive makes alot of noice and isn't very fast. I'm glad that I've a larger hdd installed or I would freak out.

I know somebody that also has a Thompson drive and it is a nighmare many many ''can't recognise this disc make sure it is..'' (only original dashboard) He had a dvd+rw and the xbox didn't really read it so he broke the disc and threw it againt the wall That was really funny....

[{later}]

Here's my list of DVD drives:

Thomson TGM600: DVD+R, DVD-R, CD-RW (NO CD-R)
Samsung SDG-605: DVD-R, CD-RW, CD-R (NO DVD+r)
Philips (The old one?): Can play all, but it depends on the media, some DVD+R don't work, but an other brand does work, and so the same with all the DVD/CD types.

I have one of the first xbox'es in europe, so it is one with a Thompson, but it works wonderfully well. It read every DVD I give it to him, and doesn't make much noise.

Now I've tried a samsung from a friend of mine, and it makes more noise, and it does NOT read DVD+R, not any brand, it immediately says: Unknown

And then we have philips, 2 friends of mine have these, and alot DVD media do not work for them, only some, that really sucks, you buy a 5-pack and then they don't work.

Best for me is the Thompson, why use a Samsung when it cannot even read DVD+R?

[mickeyX0N3]

I am using Platinum CD-Rs 80 min and Platinum DVD+Rs
on my crystal xbox with philips drive (august 2004)
works perfect !

[procoprio]

[whiteb]

Xbox Serial number broken down

Made in China
Production line 3
week 13 of 2003.
Version 1.3
DVD Drive - Samsung. mate brought over a game on a princo DVD-R, Xbox refused to even boot. So we copied the disk onto Ritek DVD-R... perfect.
Seems the DVD drive has taste..
TV System PAL.
HDD 10GIG Seagate.


Modded with Xbit chip running Xecuter2 bios, replaced with 80GIG 7200 WD HDD.