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Wow this is actually eXtremely cool!!!

As some of you know, I have been working on a suitable replacement laser/diode for the original Xbox laser. While I have narrowed down the suitable drives (Thomson being the one that needs to be left behind) a replacement laser lens has emerged that works beautifully with the Phillips VAD6011/21 Drive. i did not discover this laser, but was made aware of it by a Reddit post. I am not sure of the link rules so I’m only going to link to my Reddit group where I posted about this in its entirety as I was able to complete the testing today! https://www.reddit.com/r/OGXboxDVDDriveRevival/s/bZ4mKqtrsn With the laser in production, it’s a great option for the foreseeable future, ensuring discs can be enjoyed!

Phew. Ok, thanks!

You got me pointed in the right direction. It appears the gear on the left side of the tray had broken loose and is impeding the tray from coming out. The gear was catching the bottom of disk indention and would not move past that point. I subsequently press down on the gear while moving the tray forward and pulling up on the tray. It has just about come out. You can also see that the white push tab pushed all the way in; it was loose because it has popped off the sliding tray. I

Where did you source those pcbs?

The configuration EEPROM on the motherboard died, is no longer accessible or the data stored inside is corrupt. No Xbox BIOS that allows you to run XBE files (play games) will boot with a bad EEPROM. Some of the modchip OS's will boot without a good EEPROM or access to it. IIRC, FlashBIOS and other Cromwell-based BIOSes will too but you cannot do much with them other than boot Linux or flash a different BIOS to the modchip. Use a Raspberry PI, Arduino or serial EEPROM reader/writer cable to read the contents from the chip. Load it into LiveInfo v1.6. It will probably show that the content is corrupt is all which you already know from the RED flashing Eject ring. Do you have a backup of the EEPROM's content. An eeprom.bin file on your PC? If the chip is dead, remove and replace it with a new one and write the eeprom.bin file's content back to it.

Have nothing actually come of this?

I wasted a good portion of the last 3 or 4 years, lots of time and money on this idea. I've created then thrown away at least 6 full prototype xbox case prints that I was not happy with, redesigned several times etc. Here is a link to all versions from start to finish. It's not perfected still, but I am happy enough with mine that I'm not willing to pursue this anymore. I've shared them on cults3d and thingiverse but it's hard to put all the data there. To be clear, anyone can do anything they want with any files I've shared.. print and sell, edit, etc etc. Includes x3cp stl, xtender stl, stock face stl, power button stl, and prototype stl or obj files. I even tried to make a theme based on prototype. It should all be found here. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jPioe3_N8f_HiEhmXxccLfFvJ9h86N6K

Taa Daa... Look familiar?

Keep your eyes open for something coming soon