360 hardware breakage

[PrimaVita]

Question,
has anyone ever had their 360 not play their games and sound like gears in the machine were grinding together, but did not should the red rings of death?

 

[super_smash_jesus]

my 360 ate one of my discs, which sounded like a grinding. Now there is a perfect circle in my rockband 2 disc, and it no longer works. Xbox still kickin though, and it hasn't done it since. But that has been my only problem, and it maybe is not the same thing.

 

[stabnex]

I work in a video game store and I can tell you without even checking that your system is a 16.5A toaster oven. That sound was your fan being clogged with it's own brittle debris. Get some canned air, an external fan with a dedicated power source (plugs into the wall and not your systems power cord), and keep it covered when not in use so dust can't get in.

I apologize if this comes off a bit snarky, but I've grown quite contemptuous of poorly built 360's and give this advice a hundred thousands times a day to people who learned everything they know about XBOX maintenance off the commercials where the systems were all standing erectly on the dust-filled carpet.

 

[squid5580]

My disc drive went on my first one. It would eventually play the disc but it usually took alot of ejecting and closing. Had a PS2 do the same thing after a while.

my 360 ate one of my discs, which sounded like a grinding. Now there is a perfect circle in my rockband 2 disc, and it no longer works. Xbox still kickin though, and it hasn't done it since. But that has been my only problem, and it maybe is not the same thing.

Did you move it while the disc was spinning? A friend of mine did that with Fallout 3. The disc makes a great coaster.

 

[megapenguinx]

Your drive is messed up. You'll need to get it replaced soon before it starts scratching disks.