Weirdest 360 Issue i've ever seen is happening to me.

People who know me knowi'm rather protective and paranoid about the condition i keep my games and stuff in and often even after months of owning a game its still pretty much scratchless if not completely to the naked eye. My 360 is doing something extremely confusing that you might guess based on what i've seen you post before, but it isnt quite it. And this is so bizzare that you will probably think i'm making this up or am jumping at shadows (so to speak). I own 2 original xbox games that i play on my 360,

Shenmue 2 and Soul Calibur 2. About a third of the way through Shenmue 2 a message came up on the screen saying it couldnt read the disc, that it was dirty or scratched and to press A to continue, which meant in the case of shenmue 2 going back to the dashboard. So promptly after seeing this, i ejected my game from my 360 and looked at the bottom of it. When i held it up to the light i noticed some fine scratches circling around the disc kinda like the lines in a tree trunk. Mind you though, i've rented games that have been many times worse than this and have still worked fine in the past. Infact these scratches i'm talking about cant even be seen unless you hold them up to the light, so they are indeed fine ones. This read error came up about 3 times during the course of this game which took me around 30 hours to beat i'd say. Which isnt that bad i guess, and places that it happened at before would work fine after i reset. Now, shenmue 2 wasnt in its shrink wrap even tho i bought it new from Eb games because they keep thier cd's in plastic slips in a filed out draw (not the most best way of storing anything really but whatever).

Anyway soul calibur 2 had a read error today, i checked the disc to find the same result as shenmue 2. And this game was in its shrink wrap and everything when i bought it and flawless condition when i opened it and looked at the cd (of course it should be anyway it was sealed) Now heres where it gets really fkin weird. So i decided to look at my 360 games to see if they had the same scratches on them. I'd never experienced read errors with 360 games before ever.... So i decided to look at the games i'd played most. Gears of war = perfect, Bioshock = Perfect. Isnt that teh most bizzare thing youve heard?, it almost seems as if my 360 is scratching my xbox discs but not my 360 ones. How the hell does that work. This is quite simply the most confusing thing i've ever had happen to me to the point that i almost feel like a fool posting about it. And i bet if i phoned microsoft about it they would probably laugh in my face. I dont move my console when its switched on or at all for that matter, its stayed int he same horizontal position on my computer desk since i first bought it.

Any thoughts?

Probably something wrong with the disc.

My 2nd 360 was scratching discs, the disc tray wasnt opening for about 20mins and it would give me the "PLEASE PUT THIS DISC IN A 360" message.

After awhile the ONLY games that would play in my 360 where Original xbox games (shenmue, morrowind, Jedi Academy,counterstrike), and NONE of my 360 games would work. It was really messed up man.

So i called microsoft told them my 360 had been scratching my brand new Forza2 and Shadowrun, that my disc drive was hooped, and they sent me a box then a new xbxo360.

My 2nd 360 was scratching discs, the disc tray wasnt opening for about 20mins and it would give me the "PLEASE PUT THIS DISC IN A 360" message.

After awhile the ONLY games that would play in my 360 where Original xbox games (shenmue, morrowind, Jedi Academy,counterstrike), and NONE of my 360 games would work. It was really messed up man.

So i called microsoft told them my 360 had been scratching my brand new Forza2 and Shadowrun, that my disc drive was hooped, and they sent me a box then a new xbxo360.

kozzy1234

WTF?!You're serious?? You got the "ring of death"? the red lights.

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My 2nd 360 was scratching discs, the disc tray wasnt opening for about 20mins and it would give me the "PLEASE PUT THIS DISC IN A 360" message.

After awhile the ONLY games that would play in my 360 where Original xbox games (shenmue, morrowind, Jedi Academy,counterstrike), and NONE of my 360 games would work. It was really messed up man.

So i called microsoft told them my 360 had been scratching my brand new Forza2 and Shadowrun, that my disc drive was hooped, and they sent me a box then a new xbxo360.

fernandezone

WTF?!You're serious?? You got the "ring of death"? the red lights.

My first 360 got Red light of death... but my 2nd one had the problems i said above..... no red lights on my 2nd one though, just all the disc scratching/disc tray problems.

Alrighty, maybe the reason why i havent noticed it doing this to my 360 discs is because i havent played a 360 game on it since i started playing shenmue 2 2 weeks ago, not because the disc scratching back then prompted me not to, i just hadnt happened to have played any for any notable period of time during those 2 weeks, where as i was at times playing shenmue 2 all day long. So maybe if given the chance it would scratch my 360 discs too, i just havent let it yet by playing any 360 games for any length of time. I had never thought of that.manachild

Yup... i wasnt sure if it was scratchin my discs until i checked the new games id bought (and been playing the most since i got em) and sure enough forza2 and shadowrun where scratched to hell. It was then that i relized the scratching had just started since i got those two games, because all my other games where perfectly fine.

thats why i got rid of all o my original xbox games, except for vice city(dont know why)