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kel
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My Xbox 360 plays DVDs but not the games.
I have an Xbox 360 elite and I put in a game and it says play DVD. Idk what it's wrong with it I don't believe it's a laser issue because I took it out of a working Xbox. Please help
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oldturkey0
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kel, you do remember that"The Xbox 360 is designed so that the DVD drive works only with the particular game console it is installed in. Replacing a defective DVD drive with a replacement DVD drive does not work, since the replacement has a different DVD drive key, which the game console won't accept." source. Problem is, you can not just change the drive. The drive has to be mated to the console with the right keycode. Check on here and here for more info on this. It is most likely that it does not work is because the drive is not mated...
Which cables do not match? Regardless of any of this, did you get the drive key from the old optical drive? Did the cables match on your original drive?
The cd DVD disc drive on my pc has a four prong connection to where the Xbox DVD drive has an 8 prong conection
kel,
kel, what did you take out of a working Xbox?
oldturkey03,
I took the disc drive out of a red ring Xbox and put it in an elite and the Xbox game comes up on my screen as play DVD instead of the game
kel,