Liteon Drive Ejects Really Fast

Rowan

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Hi,

I was flashing a friends xbox and he told me his drive sometimes doesn't eject. I assumed it was the rubber band so when I opened the drive to check it I noticed a strange problem

If you take the chassis off the drive and eject it, the drive will eject but it comes out at some force. Then when you try to close it with the eject button it gets stuck. You can manually push the tray back in but it never goes in all the way with the button.

I have checked for anything blocking it but I don't see anything obvious.

Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? The speed it ejects alone is frightening!!

Thanks
 
Rowan

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I know the worm motor is the gold bar with ribbon attached but what part is the shaft?

I also noticed if I close the tray quickly games read... if i close slowly they don't.......
 
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UPDATE: I changed the worm motor (gold rail with ribbon) but it still does the same problem....
 
Rowan

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Its a phat liteon...

And im sure he said the problem was doing it before I flashed it.
 
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I'll try a reflash but why would that affect the drive not closing properly?

The games read fine if I close the drive manually.

.. I will try a reflash just now to see..
 
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the gold worm gear controls the laser movement up & down rails has sweet FA to do with tray eject.

a bad flash can affect the tray motor, and the motor itself could be f**ked try replacing it as well.
 
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I tried reflashing to stock but still same problem occured.

I then found an old DVD drive, a Liteon 74850C (the one he has is a 84850C). I basically removed all the components from it and swapped over everything from his to that one (so the only part that was different from his original was the chassis itself, I soldered his board over and everthing).

However now the drive is ejecting properly it is failing to read the games :(

My only answers are:

A) The drive chassis I swapped to is also faulty (not the eject side of things though)
B) When I swapped over the components something must not be right

Im assuming when you swap over all the components from one Liteon drive to another then it should just work as normal? Same PCB means same DVDKey etc.
 
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Rowan said:
I tried reflashing to stock but still same problem occured.

I then found an old DVD drive, a Liteon 74850C (the one he has is a 84850C). I basically removed all the components from it and swapped over everything from his to that one (so the only part that was different from his original was the chassis itself, I soldered his board over and everthing).

However now the drive is ejecting properly it is failing to read the games :(

My only answers are:

A) The drive chassis I swapped to is also faulty (not the eject side of things though)
B) When I swapped over the components something must not be right

Im assuming when you swap over all the components from one Liteon drive to another then it should just work as normal? Same PCB means same DVDKey etc.
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did u swap over the laser too? why didnt you just swap over the pcb to the donor drive?

or even better, just flash the spare drive with hs dummy.bin
 
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Because the spare drive was literally just the case, the PCB, laser etc had all been removed for parts for another friend lol.

I have put his drive back together the original way for now. It reads games but what I have noticed is the laser seems to be very high and sometimes hits the discs and makes a horrible noise.

Is there anyway to fix that? We have came to the conclusion he should be buying a whole new drive but this is just to try and salvage it for now...
 
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Rowan said:
Because the spare drive was literally just the case, the PCB, laser etc had all been removed for parts for another friend lol.

I have put his drive back together the original way for now. It reads games but what I have noticed is the laser seems to be very high and sometimes hits the discs and makes a horrible noise.

Is there anyway to fix that? We have came to the conclusion he should be buying a whole new drive but this is just to try and salvage it for now...
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Its seems it hasnt been put back together properly mate, no way should the laser be hitting the disc.

make sure it looks something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUlGeyN9D0
 
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Well I have put it back together again and it seems okay and its reading discs but every now and again I hear a horrible rattling.. I'm sure its the worm motor vibrating. Is that normal?
 
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What would signal the reason the disc is jumping about like mad inside the tray? I can't see any obvious problem :(

Don't understand this everything is back the way it was but now even originals when I close the tray the disc starts bouncing about like mad.
 
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Rowan said:
What would signal the reason the disc is jumping about like mad inside the tray? I can't see any obvious problem :(

Don't understand this everything is back the way it was but now even originals when I close the tray the disc starts bouncing about like mad.
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have you put the magnet back in the top cover ? sometimes it comes loose and drops out
 
Rowan

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Yeah it was all back together.

We gave in and ordered a new drive. He has a life on dg-12d2s 8485c just noe but we ordered a dg-12d2s 7485c.

That's okay to use yeah?
 
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