My 360 does some weird things when I play older games.

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#1 Simulator_Shock
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Recently my 360 has started to do some unpleasant things when I play my older games on it. This morning I popped in Guitar Hero 2 and the disk drive began buzzing very loudly.l I thought it would stop after a few seconds but it kept buzzing louder and louder, to the point where the buzzing was louder than the game it self! My 360 disk drive has buzzed like that before but never this extreme. What the hell is wrong with it?

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#2 Mertado
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Sounds like the fan in the DVD drive is going belly up. That fan only turns on when a disc in in the drive and you access it.

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#3 kendrene
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Recently my 360 has started to do some unpleasant things when I play my older games on it. This morning I popped in Guitar Hero 2 and the disk drive began buzzing very loudly.l I thought it would stop after a few seconds but it kept buzzing louder and louder, to the point where the buzzing was louder than the game it self! My 360 disk drive has buzzed like that before but never this extreme. What the hell is wrong with it?

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Have you tried other games? Was the disc scratched?

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#4 PG_Chimp
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It's probably something to do with the disc drive. Have you tried other games? Have they got scratches? Why don't you download the games that do that to the harddrive?
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I did pop in RE5 just to test it and it was fine, no buzzing. None of my disc's are scratched, not even in the slightest so I would rule that one out. I would install the game to the hard drive but I only have about a gig left (damn 20gb hd's) but yeah, I would say that it's the DVD drive acting up.

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#6 makemeweak
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I did pop in RE5 just to test it and it was fine, no buzzing. None of my disc's are scratched, not even in the slightest so I would rule that one out. I would install the game to the hard drive but I only have about a gig left (damn 20gb hd's) but yeah, I would say that it's the DVD drive acting up.

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If it's only happening on an older game, and not on the rest of your disks, then it is probably because the disk has become warped (which is not uncommon). Try the disk in someone else's 360. If it still buzzes, then you know the disk is warped and off-center. If it makes no strange sound, then it might still be your 360 DVD drive.