If your Xbox
freezes while you are playing or you are getting a dirty disc error,
the issue lies with the DVD drive. You can just buy a new one, but
it is much cheaper to fix the one you have yourself.
Firstly, do not, under any circumstances, blow air into the drive
without opening it first. This will only make the situation worse by
distributing all the dust more evenly inside.
There are various very simple things you can do that will fix your
DVD drive. You can use a standard CD/DVD cleaner to clean up the
drive. This will only clean the lens, but you can buy it at any
store selling Xboxes or video games.
You can also work out which drive you are dealing with – you need to
know who made it and then go through the tear down tutorials.
Possible manufacturers include Thomson, Laser Installation, Samsung
or Phillips. After going through the tear down tutorials, clean the
lens and the mirror by hand, which is where it is a very good thing
to have gone through the tear down tutorials.
At this point you need to adjust the laser’s potentiometer and then
you need to put the laser back in the DVD drive along with the
replacement laser that you have bought from the manufacturer. It
seems very complicated but is actually very simple if you just
follow the instructions.
When researching how to repair DVD drive on your Xbox 360, you will
find it very easy to just buy a new DVD drive, but with proper step
by step instructions that you can easily find on the internet you
can just fix the problem on your own in a fairly short space of
time.
