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Revealed! The Reason Your Xbox 360 Won’t Play Games: Your DVD Drive May Not Be Faulty!

In this article I wanted to clear up some confusion that has been surrounding issues some players have been having with their DVD drives on the Xbox 360. Of course, you’ve probably heard of red doom lights, crashes, and then, of course you have a whole host of “E” error messages that can appear on your screen, though what has cropped up in recent months is a new problem involving the DVD drive not playing your games when you put a disc in it.

When this happens you usually get a white screen telling you to insert an Xbox 360 disc, well unless you’ve made a mistake, you’ll probably find that’s exactly what you’ve already done! So what causes this problem?

This is what I wanted to clear up in this article, you see a lot of people think that when this happens it’s the actual drive that’s broken, or the lens is gone and you’ll have to send it in and get it fixed. Well, this can be the case with some of these errors, but usually this error is caused by too much heat reaching the sensors on the back of the drive.

In fact, so much heat occurs when you game that the motherboard starts to flex slightly, and as this continues, the solder breaks and that’s when the red lights appear. So you could say that in most cases this bug will lead to the red lights of doom if not fixed.

So to fix it, you need to prevent heat buildup from reaching the back of the unit. There are a few different ways to do this and the first is, as mentioned above, to send it back for repair. This takes quite a while, but if you don’t mind the wait, it’s worth considering!

The other way to fix it is to get your hands on a good Xbox 360 repair guide that will show you how you can stop heat buildup from household items and get back to your games. Of course, the final decision is up to you, but I hope this article has told you a bit more about why the DVD drive error occurs.

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