(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I bought a broken xbox, owner said it wouldn't read disc's. I figured easy fix. I get the xbox and hook it all up and i put in my MW2 disc sure enough wouldn't play just said reading................open tray. So i tried my WAW disc and after a few min.'s of the laser moving it started up and i was able to play online and everything. Tried the MW2 still no go. I realized my WAW disc had been scratched and i resurfaced a long time ago, so i resurfaced the MW2 disc and the xbox would recongnize it as a game but the MW2 picture wouldn't come up on the dashboard. It would just say play game press A. Then when it started it took a min. then said the disc was dirty.

I opened the xbox up and cleaned the lens and everything but still does the same thing. As soon as i opened it up i noticed it has a newer lite-on dvd drive the xbox itself was made in 2006 the dvd drive says it was made in 2008. I didn't think it had ever been opened cause the security tag was still intact. I'm guessing someone along the way sent it into microsoft for a dvd drive repair? I played with the laser pot and it helped alot i got the xbox to recongnize MW2 and it showed the picture on the dashboard but still would say the disc was dirty. Other games it would take a min. but they would eventually play sometimes the dirty disc error would come up.

I'm guessing the laser is bad would i be correct thinking that?

And if the dvd drive isn't flashed for the xbox it wouldn't play or work would it? I didn't think that was the problem since it would play games if you played around with it for awhile.

Sorry kinda long

Neither was the problem the laser was bad