Topic: Xbox Not Reading Disc

I have an Xbox 360. I haven't used it in about 8 months. I started playing games on it again. However, I can't play any games on disc. The tray opens and I put the disc in but it says "Open Tray then Reading then goes back to Open Tray". I don't hear the disc spinning up as you normally would.

I have tried various 360 games and a DVD movie and nothing changes. I believe that it is hardware related. Prior to 8 months ago, I was able to play games such as Sniper Elite that was on disc without any problems. The Xbox sat around for 8 months.

Nothing has been modified or replaced so I am not sure what happened. I looked at the lens and internal parts of the disc player and it looks clean. I don't see any dust particles or anything that would cause any problems. I think the player went bad and I have to find out how to replace it.

@facecard Unless you know what your are doing I suggest calling Microsoft and either set up a repair or look for a local electronics repair shop. Maybe like a computer repair shop maybe and I know some phone repair shops will do repairs on a game system. You can even try maybe a local gaming store. In the US there is a place called UBreakiFix and they do console repair for a fee.

I was gonna say, I dunno what the gaming scene is like in other places but here in Kuwait there’s gaming repair shops at every corner. If you have something similar where you live, then it’s only a matter of a little digging and taking one extra step.

Just to follow up and close this discussion.

In the US, we don't have repair shops around corner. I can't speak about it in other states but here in NY in my neighborhood we don't have that many if any at all.

Most likely I will upgrade the console to an Xbox One at some point in the future.