360 Repairs

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Best place in Sunderland?

Drive isn’t reading the discs, hopefully the laser just needs re-aligning but I don’t have the tools (or the know-how) to do it……

Also can someone PM details of where to get it flashed if I need a new drive?

[Soz Marra]

Ever used a multimeter before? Adjusting the pots is a piece of piss. No soldering or owt required, just turning a potentiometer to lower the resistance (and increasing the strength of the laser).

Does it read originals by any chance?

[hefty em]

Shop on Hylton rd, if you're going down from Oddies to B and Q, it's on your left, down the bottom, just before the zebra crossing. He'll repair it and do the other thing also if needed.

Originally Posted by Soz Marra

Ever used a multimeter before? Adjusting the pots is a piece of piss. No soldering or owt required, just turning a potentiometer to lower the resistance (and increasing the strength of the laser).

Does it read originals by any chance?

Hark at doctor fucking who here.

[Soz Marra]

Originally Posted by hefty em

Shop on Hylton rd, if you're going down from Oddies to B and Q, it's on your left, down the bottom, just before the zebra crossing. He'll repair it and do the other thing also if needed.




Hark at doctor fucking who here.

Re-reading it, I suppose it does sound a bit sci-fi. But it's the truth! No other way to word it.

[Giddup Sausage!]

Might just need the lense cleaning. Happened to a mate of mine and another mate just cleaned it with a photography lense brush and it worked fine. Must have just had some dirt on it.

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Originally Posted by Soz Marra

Ever used a multimeter before? Adjusting the pots is a piece of piss. No soldering or owt required, just turning a potentiometer to lower the resistance (and increasing the strength of the laser).

Does it read originals by any chance?

Won't read owt, Googled it and it's "the open tray problem", or so it seems anyway. The laser is set on a couple of runners and gets stuck away from under the disc, so it thinks there is no disc in. I close the tray, and it tells me to open it as it cant see the disc.

I think that’s the problem anyway! If not it’s a new drive, so I’ll get it flashed before installation, should save a couple of quid I hope, and also gets me onto 1.61 so saves me from patching everything.

That shop on Hylton Road is the one I was thinking of, remember taking summat in there years ago, probs me old PS1.

I was just coming up to the Joker fight in Batman anarl

[Soz Marra]

Originally Posted by Town End Farmer Giles

Won't read owt, Googled it and it's "the open tray problem", or so it seems anyway. The laser is set on a couple of runners and gets stuck away from under the disc, so it thinks there is no disc in. I close the tray, and it tells me to open it as it cant see the disc.

I think that’s the problem anyway! If not it’s a new drive, so I’ll get it flashed before installation, should save a couple of quid I hope, and also gets me onto 1.61 so saves me from patching everything.

That shop on Hylton Road is the one I was thinking of, remember taking summat in there years ago, probs me old PS1.

I was just coming up to the Joker fight in Batman anarl

The pot adjustment can also fix the open tray problem. My current 360 drive (Hitachi - 47 IIRC, running ix 1.51) had the same issue and was fixed by adjusting them. If there is no visible problem with the tray mechanism, that'd be the first thing I try.

The shop on Hylton Road is called Cheap as Chips, I think. Some lad at work got his 360 done there, but I think they charged him £30-£40.

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Originally Posted by Soz Marra

The pot adjustment can also fix the open tray problem. My current 360 drive (Hitachi - 47 IIRC, running ix 1.51) had the same issue and was fixed by adjusting them. If there is no visible problem with the tray mechanism, that'd be the first thing I try.

The shop on Hylton Road is called Cheap as Chips, I think. Some lad at work got his 360 done there, but I think they charged him £30-£40.

£40 is around the going rate for flashing, lens corrections and tray repairs around £25, new drives £45? Nee idea what it would be for installing a new, flashed drive though, but presumably less than the £85 of installing a new drive and then flashing it as separate costs……….

I'll give you a tenner if you fix mine.

[You Again]

Originally Posted by Soz Marra

The pot adjustment can also fix the open tray problem. My current 360 drive (Hitachi - 47 IIRC, running ix 1.51) had the same issue and was fixed by adjusting them. If there is no visible problem with the tray mechanism, that'd be the first thing I try.

The shop on Hylton Road is called Cheap as Chips, I think. Some lad at work got his 360 done there, but I think they charged him £30-£40.

There's another shop on Hylton Road as well called AGM Media Group, they'll flash it for £30, don't know how much they charge to fix them like

[Soz Marra]

Originally Posted by Town End Farmer Giles

£40 is around the going rate for flashing, lens corrections and tray repairs around £25, new drives £45? Nee idea what it would be for installing a new, flashed drive though, but presumably less than the £85 of installing a new drive and then flashing it as separate costs……….

I'll give you a tenner if you fix mine.

You wouldn't want me to marra. I don't trust myself anymore - I'm fine if it's my own hardware, if I fuck it, my own fault, but whenever it's someone elses, It's like I'm on trial or something. I'd not be surprised if I shorted it out with my sweat. £40 though? Fucking hell I was doing it for £15 until I lost my bottle! (My Dads Lite-on refused to open the tray. I tried to do it on the morning before a day on the lash, ended up worrying about it for 10 hours - turned out I'd done it all correctly, just hadn't flashed the new firmware on... )

When you got your 360 flashed initially, did you get given a disk with the original firmware on it? If so, this is all you need to spoof a new drive as your own, if you end up going down that route.