Xbox 360s scrape discs!

[slycat]

When they say on all the warnings and stuff to do with the console, they really do mean it. Do not move the console when there is a disc in the drive, and most certainly do not do this while it's powered on. I was foolishly resting my feet on the Xbox as it's under my computer desk (as I use the monitor for the Xbox too), I felt the urge to scratch one of my feet while a level of Burnout was loading and accidentally tilted the box to one side (it normally sits vertically). When I did this, I heard the most awful noise and quickly righted it. I turned the box off... and then on again to retrieve the disc. The damage had been done. I've got a perfect circular scratch about halfway to the middle of the disc at about a mm in width... Oddly the game still plays but I'm sure I'll get to a bit of the game which relies on data under that scratch, and then I've had it...

So let this be a lesson to you all: Don't be like Sly. Don't use your Xbox as a footrest. And definitley do not move the Xbox while it's on!

Comments

[orona-red.livejournal.com]

I used to use my PC as a footrest. One day I yawned, and streched. My feet pushed out, shoving the computer about six inches across the floor. The monitor cable went completely taut, and pulled the graphics card, which wasn't screwed in, out of the AGP slot.

The PC speaker screamed, and the motherboard died a horrible, horrible death. We both learned valuable lessons through our feet.

[jdjam001.livejournal.com]

O.O

you'd think in this day and age they'd have the technology to hold a disk in place no matter what angle you tilt your box at...

... i mean, hell, look a disk-mans - you can do cartwheels with some of those bloody things and they keep on going.


*shakes finger at Microsoft* nawteh!

[dukefawks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yours has the hitachi drive then. Well at least now you know you got a drive you can flash unlike the philips and play burned/copied DVDs.

[lazerus101.livejournal.com]

I use my, largely unused, bass speaker as a footrest.

[m-tiger.livejournal.com]

I use my old flatbed scanner as a footrest.

Sorry to hear your game got scratched. That reminds me, I should modify my drive to alleviate that issue, since I opened my 360 anyway.