Xbox Consoles Dying??

[Satch]

I'm kinda scared of this with all the talk recently about drives, thompsons, etc. Well, I have an Xbox from about a month after launch (like around the first Christmas after it was out) and it DOES have a thompson. I've had the occasional dirty disc errors, and of course, I have gotten several Morrowind error, which is normal. I haven't gotten any major signs that my Xbox is going to die (which means it stops reading any discs right?) Man, that would suck horribly. Does anyone know if you can BACK UP (I know you can't save while playing the game) a Morrowind save to a memory card in case my xbox "dies" and I lose my data? Oh, and do you think from the info I gave that my Xbox should be all right?

[LiquidX]

Your Xbox sounds fine. A lot of games are prone to DDE's, GTA games for example. You can buy a memory card to back up saves onto. There are also things that allow you to put saves on your PC using a memory card (action replay does this I think).

[LTM360]

Not all Thompson drive are defective, and it seems at this point at least yours isn't. And I think it's safe to say, if your isn't broken by now, odds are it will be fine. But I cannot gaurentee anything. But as LiquidX said, your xbox seems fine, don't worry about it until you either get a service screen, or constant DDEs.

[Variation-XBA]

Don't knock the Thompsons! I've still got mine working flawlessly since day 1!

[Xtopia]

I honestly lost count how many Xboxes I've had that have broke....four or five now...maybe six.

It sucks. Two have stopped functioning all together. Two can't network. So I guess I'm on my fith.

[TOTTEN]

Don't knock the Thompsons! I've still got mine working flawlessly since day 1!

stop your gonna jinx it. thats what i said before mine died

[Ninjermy]

u just never know when its gonna die. some will probably never die! if they still have working ataris, then there will be some people whos xbox's just wont quit and will go on for years and years. even the thompsons!

[Satch]

Very true...I just hope I'm one of them

[pvsurfer03]

I'm now on my second, i had a thompson in my first and it got to a point where my xbox was unplayable. The xbox i have now is a samsung and i havent had one problem with it.

[Wolfboy_888]

Grand theft auto vice city and madden 2004 have been by far the worst xbox games ive had with the Dirty disk error blues. Vice city took me an hour to work at some points..and madden was usually a 5 minute chore to get it to work..weird on vice city because i have no trouble whatsoever(knock on wood) with GTA3.

[Peepers]

Morrowind saves fit on a memory card if you're that concerned.

[SoundX]

Well my Thompson used to do all of that crap, it is a launch one after all. But I had it opened up and tweaked a bit and I've never had any problems since.

But at the time, I bought a Crystal Xbox just incase lol

[Rancey]

My Thompson died a couple months ago (started getting worse and worse), I had it from launch...so it can last a while before going. I bought 2 crystal Xboxs, selling one on Ebay and keeping the other...unless the first goes for a bit

Plugs Ebay link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...119012838&rd=1

[trabucles]

my thompson just started havin problems, I tryed fixing it with a lens cleaner and it worked fine for 3 months, after that, it continue giving me the DDE. I just bought metal arms and i cant play it, simply cuz my xbox cant read it saying it is dirty or it isnt original.

[Satch]

If I'm interpreting this right, it seems like the thompson xboxs that fail the most are the launch ones. Of course, I got mine about a month after launch...hopefully this was enough time...seems like it would have started screwing up by now right?

[Shadow20002]

Well, i have Thomson drive and is working perfectly except for Morrowind (everyone knows that the first edition of the game got major problems), GOTY edition works great for me.

[BlindSniper]

I have a launch thompson, still works fine, but doesn't seem to boot up oddworld: munches oddysey anymore. Yep, I still play oddworld since the day it came out. The game is intense. But yeah, my xbox is still running. Of coarse I play on the light green SE one now but in my room I've still got old Thompson Norm.

[CharlieHustle]

I had mine since day 1. I get the usual dde's like you do. The most dde's i got from a game was ninja gaiden. Outside of that, it works fine. No complaints.

[MixMasta]

Just try to keep your Xbox clean of dust, prolong its life. Get one of those compressed air cans.

[Brutus]

Mine totally went last month.
After buying the replacement from some guy in Canada off Ebay I was able to get the exact Thomson TGM 600 DVD drive brand-new for $24.00
Since it was the same exact DVD drive that was in there it was just an unplug, plug in method & it was good as new. Better than losing all those game saves & getting a new one (Even though I have two Xbox's).
Also no "modding" was needed. It all just came together so easily, I looked back & laughed at all of the DDE's.
Man, those things, at times, used to completely make me so mad... It's all hunky dory now!