Someone may remember this topic I posted Dec last year when I got Red ring of death when Cod WAW come out on the exact week it was double xp points for everyone:

https://passionford.com/forum/comput...box-360-a.html

Anyway despite all the Xbox v PS3 debates recently kept it to myself that my console drive had slowly been slipping and not reading discs. Last week Forza 3 took 6 attempts to load up and this week just as the new Call of Duty came out it stopped all together, I think COD games are cursed.

I still had just over a years warranty left but heard it would cost you if it wasn't the RROD so I decided to strip it breaking not only the seal on the inner case but also the one on the 20Gb BenQ dvd drive itself. Basically I cleaned the laser with a cloth with a fair bit of pressure and also moved the laser and now it works. Before I did that though I ordered an Xbox Elite with the 120Gb drive but I was so close to buying a PS3. My original one will definitely need a new drive soon I think but if this Elite gets RROD in under a year I'm going to seriously consider selling both and getting the Playstation whilst its away for repair. A new DVD drive is only about £20 but its not like PC's where you can just swap, you need to extract the drive key or swap the new chip board which is inside the metal drive case for the old one so the motherboard takes it. Not too hard but its more pissing about when you just want to play online etc.

Shame as it is IMO the best games console and best online/online environment and I don't mind been without it for a week per year but if its going to keep fucking up every time a top new game comes out then enough is enough. Even though I know the PS3 isn't as good it is still a good console and I reckon if I didn't hear about their servers for games being 3rd party and not their own (like Microsofts are) (with Mw2 being off) then I would have bought one this week. On the plus side though at least now I have one for the lounge and one for upstairs with the PC's so I can just move the HDD instead of loads of cables etc.

Just got to ring up Microshit now and get them to send me the HDD transfer kit to put my stuff on the new one. Lets hope this console is better but I will be installing my main games to the hard disk just to keep the wear down especially as its the 2nd biggest fault after red ring.