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Carno · 05-28-2005, 10:07 AM

I swapped out my DVD drive when it crapped out and it was really easy. I just looked at a walkthrough on the internet and it took me like 20 minutes. The only problem is that you may have problems with the mounts. The current drive has a plastic mount clipped onto it, and I broke the mount while trying to take it off. Since the mount was broken, the new drive kinda sits in there a little crooked. Still works fine but I couldn't latch the top of the XBox completely on.

I can't remember where I bought the drive, but I got it online and it was like $80. Most were $100 but I searched for a while to find that one. You have to make sure the plug is XBox compatible, which means that someone had to have changed the cables on the drive, meaning it is more expensive than buying a regular DVD drive.

05-28-2005, 10:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
Carno Junkie	I swapped out my DVD drive when it crapped out and it was really easy. I just looked at a walkthrough on the internet and it took me like 20 minutes. The only problem is that you may have problems with the mounts. The current drive has a plastic mount clipped onto it, and I broke the mount while trying to take it off. Since the mount was broken, the new drive kinda sits in there a little crooked. Still works fine but I couldn't latch the top of the XBox completely on. I can't remember where I bought the drive, but I got it online and it was like $80. Most were $100 but I searched for a while to find that one. You have to make sure the plug is XBox compatible, which means that someone had to have changed the cables on the drive, meaning it is more expensive than buying a regular DVD drive.