Opened A Xbox To Find A Hitachi-lg Dvdrom, **MERGED TOPICS** Options

[EvilTeddyBear]

Ive seen this brand of drives in mass quantity at a local pc swap meet, I'll try to pick some up
they were $10-$15 each I got all of the samsung 616t's

I'll posts pics after the 1st

[Altima NEO]

Damn, just as I was planning on buying a new xbox.
Guys think I should try to buy one of those factory refurbished systems?

[Zod5000]

Samsungs are ok, but maybe its just the one i've got. I've got the 605f. It's ready any burned dvd media i've thrown in it, but never a cd-r. I've gotten around that by burning stuff on a dvd+rw instead, or copying over the network to the hard drive.

I can live without cd-r (allthough it would be nice to have), but at the least the 605f plays everything else i throw at it.

[Altima NEO]

Oh yeah all this talk about back up discs and stuff is great. But how well does it deal with original Xbox games? Scratched up ones and stuff like that. I never use any sort of dvd or cd media as my crappy Thompson wont read em anyway.

[inVinCiBleGaMa]

Hey ppl i found the H-L Data Storage English website. This mite sound really dumb but i spent atleast 15 mins looking for it . No matches turned up for H-L Data storage on Google

http://www.hlds.co.jp/e_index.jsp

Again this mite be pretty obvious...

I also found a possible match..... its the GDR-8162B

its not a perfect match but i think it mite be like the Samsung 605F and the 616T. Keep in mind the 616T is 16X too.....

anyway this was the only drive on the website.

This post has been edited by inVinCiBleGaMa: Dec 28 2004, 01:56 AM

[Vejita]

IMO the best DVD-ROM drive for XBox is the Phillips v2 drive (Phillips J5 3235C)

It reads absolutely EVERYTHING so it has an advantage over the good old Samsung which is problematic with + media unless you bitset

This post has been edited by Vejita: Dec 28 2004, 06:23 AM

[Caderade]

hmmmm.....i have the new hitachi LG dvd drive. I havent noticed any errors and/or problems...except...it wont read the last 5 seconds of a cd i have. I have cleaned it over amd over again (w/ windex from the inside out, windex, lol) but it still wont read it *sigh* . Any whoo, my mfg date is November 2, 2004. I would open it to see the specs and such but i do not want to void the warrenty just in case i choose to return it or send it to micrsoft. I noticed a reply that said it had problems reading the topspin/ncaa fottball 2005 cd it included, which is bs because it reads mine fine. As for cdrs...everyone is right, it wont read em. O well. I hope that encouraged some of u. And i dont think that it is the next Thompson as some of u may say who dont even own it and are judging by the pics.

[lordvader129]

What makes you feel that LG is another Thomson? In my opinion the Thomsons are one of the best because of compatibility to all DVD-Media!

all the ones ive come across wouldnt read dvd+r, besides the philips (both the un-tweaks v1 and the new one) read all dvd media as well, and are far more reliable at it than the thomsons

[twistedsymphony]

One of you guys with this drive need to open it up and take some hi-res pictures of the circuit board... that is litterally the only way we'll be able to determine if there is a sister drive like the Xbox sammy and the 616 sammy.

I'm good friends with A@ron (writer of "the definitive 616t tutorial"). We're both very familiar with 616 modding, how and why it works. We need to know the model number of the chips on the circuit board as well as any model numbers printed on the actual circuit board. You get us that stuff and we can start working on cracking this new drive.

[s1w]

What's up?

Someone can take pictures of the GDR-8050L's pcb. I will try and get my hands on a GDR-8162B and take pictures of it's pcb for comparison.

NCIX in Canada sells these for $31.61 CAD and they have sales all the time.,

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku...G%20Electronics

This post has been edited by s1w: Dec 28 2004, 05:02 PM

[Malphazar]

Ill be chiping a friends drive that he got new for crimmis, if it has the drive in it ill grab some pics of the PCB and the chips. Good luck thought, i figure that MS will never make that mistake again and there just trying to make our lives misrable. Bad ram, bad drives...... seagate......any way, ill see if i can dig that info up friday or sooner. some one else with the Drive do the same so we have conparason.





Spelling and gramer are not my strong point.....

[Unseen Shadow]

Hee hee...im getting excited....thatd be tight if it can be cracked to do original games like the samm616's....as believe it or not ive got a lemon of a sammy in an xbox which was fucked over from a softmod from some guy at school...i mean how can u screw over a soft mod....i ended up buying it from him....he was saying it was giving him dde n stuff...so i was like w/e...ill buy it...mod it...sell it....then i noticed it was a sammy.....how odd...a sammy with reccurent dde's ....i cleaned the lense...still makin stupid noises...but hopefully there is gonna be a new ''616'' with the lg drives..... going to chip a family members xbox when my next batch of aladdins arrive, if it has one ill take pics for all you guyz


Cheers,


Shadow


and by the way Malphazar
jacking Brahms avatar.....not cool

-EDIT....my bad...brahm's EX avatar...still.......

This post has been edited by Unseen Shadow: Dec 28 2004, 11:04 PM

[AndyJapan]

One of you guys with this drive need to open it up and take some hi-res pictures of the circuit board... that is litterally the only way we'll be able to determine if there is a sister drive like the Xbox sammy and the 616 sammy.

I'm good friends with A@ron (writer of "the definitive 616t tutorial"). We're both very familiar with 616 modding, how and why it works. We need to know the model number of the chips on the circuit board as well as any model numbers printed on the actual circuit board. You get us that stuff and we can start working on cracking this new drive.

Hey twistedsymphony!

What do you think about the Samsung SD-616E? I ordered this drive some while ago as I though that I could get the SD-616T. The SD-616E is manufactured by Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology and I am afraid that this drive cannot be modified as it can be done with the SD-616T. Any comments on this would be welcome.

I got some `dirty disc errors` some time ago and started browsing message boards to find out with which drive I could replace my dying Thomson drive. My Thomson drive is still functional, but I wouldn`t bet that it won`t fail in future. If the LG drive turns out to be as "good" as the SD-616T and folks could find a compatible drive than can be modded, I would go for that one..

[kevinlekiller]

My brother bought an xbox for his girlfriends son, for christmas.

Anyways it has the new dvd-drive in it, I ''tested'' the xbox for a few days before wrapping it.

I noticed that sometimes it randomly gives me the (The disc might be damaged...) error and it did it a few times (with : One original game; Amped 2+Top spin, 4 Backups (2 dvd+r ,2 dvd-r all branded differently). All the discs look brand new (no scratches)).

The error is realy random like once it did it after about 4 hours of playing kotor 2.
Another time after 35 mins of nfsu2. etc....

This never happened on my xbox(its a samsung I guess it makes a difference??)
(well it happened a few times but it was in morrowind backed up on my hard drive)

Now I guess ill have to buy him a samsung or a phillips since this thing is annoying!

This post has been edited by kevinlekiller: Dec 29 2004, 03:37 AM

[ferrari_rulz_02]

Now I guess ill have to buy him a samsung or a phillips since this thing is annoying!

thatll b useless. ud b better off getting him a hdd, and copying the games to that