![]() I currently have the laser and motor ribbon cables disconnected within the drive, so that the drive doesn't burn itself out (and I couldn't just unplug the drive, since the Xbox apparently needs one to be present). If anyone has any idea what the problem could be, I would be much obliged. Just as a test, I manually inserted a disk, which led to the drive spinning the disk as fast as possible - to the point of scaring me, so I unplugged the Xbox shortly after. Furthermore, the motor seemed to be running non stop. ![]() I disassembled the drive to see what was going on, and noticed that the laser seemed to be engaged at all times. More recently, I noticed a noise coming from the drive, and the eject button had stopped working. I subsequently used a disk to setup a blank 120GB HDD with a copy of the necessary files. ![]() ![]() I flashed the Xecuter X2 5035 BIOS, and everything was hunky-dory. The drive worked fine when I acquired the Xbox, and I used it with a copy of MechAssault to do the original softmod, so that I could flash the TSOP. I have a 1.0 Xbox with an original Philips drive (the drive was manufactured in 2002, if it matters). ![]()
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