replacment 360 drives [Archive]

lhys09915

11-12-2006, 11:02 AM

is there anywere in the uk that sell replacment 360 dvd drives?

mp3boy

11-12-2006, 03:00 PM

www.foundmy.com sells them and ships to the UK

thecheekymonkey

11-16-2006, 07:47 PM

but remember, after the latest online update (not sure if the latest game updates do it as well) they have a version checker, which basically means that the console knows what drive came with the box originally, , and if the drive has been changed, it will error 66.

no ways around this (or at least easy) , only way so far is to edit the firmware, to report your version.

yinyan

11-17-2006, 10:22 AM

just change the laser - not hard only took me 10mins

mp3boy

11-17-2006, 02:34 PM

Not a lot of good if the controller board's dead though.

Also be aware that you will need to reprogram a replacement drive with the drive key from the old drive. You can't just plug it in and start playing.

orangeman

11-17-2006, 02:57 PM

so e66 is cause of drive change

very interesting

mp3boy

11-17-2006, 04:31 PM

It is. Generally it's because the drive firmware is older than the one that was originally on the drive (most common on ms28s with a hacked fw pre-v4 based on ms25), or the drive has been swapped to a different make. There are rare cases where a ms25 with ms28 firmware will cause the error though.

It doesn't affect flashed Hitachi consoles as the version isn't changed when they are flashed.

You can hex edit the version string in the firmware to get the drive to return the "correct" response.

thecheekymonkey

11-17-2006, 05:58 PM

It is. Generally it's because the drive firmware is older than the one that was originally on the drive (most common on ms28s with a hacked fw pre-v4 based on ms25), or the drive has been swapped to a different make. There are rare cases where a ms25 with ms28 firmware will cause the error though.

It doesn't affect flashed Hitachi consoles as the version isn't changed when they are flashed.

You can hex edit the version string in the firmware to get the drive to return the "correct" response.

yes but this patching the key process into my hitachi made it unworkable with any apps, so i had to remove the chip and then dump / edit / prog / solder back in to do it.

sammys should be too much of a problem, but hitachis are a bit more of a pain in the arse...............

The Phone Guy

11-19-2006, 12:16 PM

A uk supplier of sammy drives would be awesome...

Will slap them in the V78 machines instead of pissing about with rolling codes and etc...As cheeky monkey will tell you they are not straight forward as some people think if you have a programmer..