Lewis1122 Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 Hi everyone. I have a 2001 model Xbox with the Thompson drive. It's struggling to read certain game disks (or not reading them at all) despite the disks being in great condition. Other games will run just fine. I already tried doing the pot tweak on the laser and it helped for about 3 hours until it was crashing with disk read errors again. I believe the drive is on its way out. My question is, what is the best way to go about fixing it? It seems like the newer Samsung drives are supposedly more reliable, but they are extremely hard to find. Does anyone sell repair kits for these Thompson drives? Would it be possible to use a newer SATA DVD drive with a SATA-IDE adapter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowlsnapper Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 19 hours ago, Lewis1122 said: Hi everyone. I have a 2001 model Xbox with the Thompson drive. It's struggling to read certain game disks (or not reading them at all) despite the disks being in great condition. Other games will run just fine. I already tried doing the pot tweak on the laser and it helped for about 3 hours until it was crashing with disk read errors again. I believe the drive is on its way out. My question is, what is the best way to go about fixing it? It seems like the newer Samsung drives are supposedly more reliable, but they are extremely hard to find. Does anyone sell repair kits for these Thompson drives? Would it be possible to use a newer SATA DVD drive with a SATA-IDE adapter? Read through here: SMDs on the boards can go bad. Resistor arrays and caps. There is currently no way to use a sata drive that I am aware of. @FrostyMaGee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmingers Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 On 1/10/2024 at 2:06 PM, Lewis1122 said: Hi everyone. I have a 2001 model Xbox with the Thompson drive. It's struggling to read certain game disks (or not reading them at all) despite the disks being in great condition. Other games will run just fine. I already tried doing the pot tweak on the laser and it helped for about 3 hours until it was crashing with disk read errors again. I believe the drive is on its way out. My question is, what is the best way to go about fixing it? It seems like the newer Samsung drives are supposedly more reliable, but they are extremely hard to find. Does anyone sell repair kits for these Thompson drives? Would it be possible to use a newer SATA DVD drive with a SATA-IDE adapter? You might be able to salvage the drive by purchasing a new Top-60 laser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrostyMaGee Posted January 12 Report Share Posted January 12 14 hours ago, Bowlsnapper said: Read through here: SMDs on the boards can go bad. Resistor arrays and caps. There is currently no way to use a sata drive that I am aware of. @FrostyMaGee That would be great but I’m also unaware of a way to make that function. I’d start with caps and resistor arrays if I was him. 2 hours ago, Shmingers said: You might be able to salvage the drive by purchasing a new Top-60 laser. Those work well once you get the potentiometer set to spec. The problem right now is finding one. Granted I haven’t looked in about six months but every place seemed to be out of stock and what few said they had them in stock seemed sketchy. Maybe they’re back in circulation now though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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